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Vote for the best sunflower duo: A - I got your back B - Wait, where is the sun? C - I am taller than you! D - Stay low

5:45am - blistering tomatillos & jalapeños from my garden to make a jar of salsa verde. 😎

Onions

Back in February I picked 8 different kinds of tomato seeds to sow. I think I have an interesting variety!

After I get some writing done, I will head out to harvest tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, & blackberries (and onions - not pictured).

Poppies & Purple Green Beans

Celosia, balsam, nasturtiums, cosmos

Poppies!

Gomphrena & celosia - ready to head out to the garage to harden off

That's at least 15 sweet potato slips in water. There are several more still attached to the rooted sweet potatoes in the tray waiting to be pulled & put in water to develop roots.

Cucumber seedlings

Tomatoes, Lavender, and eggplant (I think) in the garage to start hardening off. (My labeling system for seeds & seedlings collapsed by the 2nd week in January this year. Chaos gardening is more exciting, don’t you think?)

Experiment: Dried the skin of 6 organic strawberries Now I have strawberry seeds Let’s see if they germinate!

Onion starts are available at Lowe’s! I have my onion seedlings - but I hope to compare them. Which ones will I have better luck growing this year?

Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are nouns when you stress the first syllable but verbs when you stress the second. "Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”

For your consideration: Emily Dickinson: A Companion