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Reinventing "recycled art" 🎨Zach made a potato turkey for school last Canadian Thanksgiving 🦃He liked it so much he kept it for weeks, and it ended up shriveling and sprouting 🌱Instead of getting composted, it got chopped up and potted in soil for fun. By March, just in time for coronavirus lockdown, we had a cool potato plant that we named Steve. Then, we thought Steve should come out of quarantine and get to hang out with some new potato plant friends in our victory garden. 🌿Steve had a great summer, and to our surprise this weekend, he ended up making three tender new versions of himself! Yum! 🥔😋🥔😋🥔 
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Please mask up and save lives. Baby butternut squash met an early end, but those around you don't have to! 😷#wearamask #butternutsquash  At least we got visually appealing beet leaves even though we grew weird bulbs! 🤩  Who knew wax beans had cool red and white beans on the inside? 🌱🙂🌱 Always fun seeing mealworm frass turn into neat things 🐛😀  A big thank you to Dr. Carlos de Sousa's office at @oshawaclinicgroup for making the effort to collect so many markers and pens for recycling even in the midst of the pandemic! 🖊️😀🖊️We really, really appreciate Jessica's support in reminding everybody to bring in their used writing instruments. ✍️😄✍️  Over 51 lbs of fresh produce for @ftndurham this past week 😄 A nice end to the summer growing season for our victory garden!!! We harvested zucchini (4 lbs), cucumbers (0.75 lbs) beefsteak tomatoes (6.5 lbs), cherry tomatoes (5 lbs), & winter squash (35 lbs) 🍅🥒🍅🥒🍅This has been our biggest haul for the season! 😀  "A zucchini in a tomato bubble bath" - Zach 🛀🍅🥒 Trying to keep our victory garden going but it's getting harder with the cold temps❄️🌡️ * * * * * * * * * *  Our precocious strawberry plant (lone survivor of 25 seeds planted shortly after the start of lockdown) once again exceeded expectations, bearing these pretty and sweet strawberries! 🍓🍓🍓 No, it wasn't thanks to our mealworm frass this time 🐛😆#strawberry #summer #sweet #berries  Who said weeds can't be beautiful? 🌻If anyone knows what they are, please comment below. There are so many lookalikes! These are blooming in Southern Ontario, Canada 😄  Is it true that Southern Ontario is notoriously bad for growing bell peppers? 🌶️We only got a few of these, despite our awesome, environmentally-friendly mealworm frass 🐛🤔 And we don't think more are coming with the cold!  |
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