[greeneyes]

Pinging the List.

[JRandomFreeper]

The rebel tobacco plant. Cigarette included for scale.

We're getting some rain here, and will get more tonight. The temps are in the mid 60s and my fall plants are loving it. I've got the cold frame open.

Next year, I'll be adding some height to my cold frame. It's too shallow for some of the stuff I'm growing. My broccoli is bumping up against the top of it when it's closed.

/johnny

[murrie]

Greetings from warm, rainy Tennessee. A fellow gardener coworker started the discarded end of two celery stalks in water in our break room at work. I had no idea this could be done. Not sure what we will do with it being this is December. But it sure brightens the place up.

[ApplegateRanch]

Chili bricks? Come to think of it, I haven't seen any in stores for decades. Mom used to buy chili bricks; and after I was on my own, so did I. IIRC, it came in a small wooden slide-top box, much the same as salted cod did. I know that isn't what you made, but that was the memory it triggered. Those boxes were dovetailed, and had a lot of uses.

From Wikipedia

Brick chili[edit] Another method of marketing commercial chili in the days before widespread home refrigerators was "brick chili." It was produced by pressing out nearly all of the moisture, leaving a solid substance roughly the size and shape of a half-brick. Wolf Brand was originally sold in this form.[12] Commonly available in small towns and rural areas of the American Southwest in the first three-quarters of the 20th century, brick chili has mostly outlived its usefulness but can still be found in some stores.