Fruit and Vegetable Notes.

1. I got a notice I'd sold a book, but it was a book I had never read, so I was looking it over before mailing it out. In the foreward, the author talked about being confused in her youth, restless about what she wanted to do. She quit university to grow vegetables, she said, but didn't manage, in the subsequent months, to grow any vegetables at all. I liked that part of the book, about how she had been confused. Her "answer" didn't seem worth more than a skim.
2. You seem into the vegetable thing, but it seems, more into the compost thing. Or, it's the dirt thing. You want to be a fount of creativity, for all things to spring from you.
3. I like rhubarb stalks.
4. To make celery long and prevent it from becoming dark green and bitter, wall it in; grow it between foot-high walls.
5. I am baffled by the jack-o-lantern tradition.