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"A zucchini in a tomato bubble bath" - Zach 🛀🍅🥒 Trying to keep our victory garden going but it's getting harder with the cold temps❄️🌡️ * * * * * * * * * * 
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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!  A splendidly colourful variety of veggies harvested for @ftndurham last week: 7 lbs winter squash, 23 lbs beefsteak tomatoes🍅, 3 lbs pounds cherry tomatoes 🍅, 1.5 lbs cucumber🥒, 2 lbs zucchini🥒, and 2.5 lbs snap beans! That's 39 lbs in total 😀 Please support the fight against hunger!  Nasturtiums are easy to grow and edible🌺 They also naturally trap garden pests such as aphids & leaf miners...Beautiful and practical 😀  A lovely ornamental pepper plant in our victory garden, just for fun. 🙂🌶️🌶️🌶️A lovely ornamental pepper plant in our victory garden, just for fun. 🙂🌶️🌶️🌶️  If you saw that overachieving strawberry plant from our Aug 1 post, these are its babies!🍓😮🍓 So the poor little first strawberry it produced got smooshed by accident, so we decided to smoosh it more into some soil to see if it would grow...and voila! It germinated in only 9 days, which is way above the mean! 🥇  Yay for mealworm frass! It's a great veggie booster! 🐛 We were excited to have a nice haul for @ftndurham this past week: kale (11 lbs), cucumbers (1.5 lbs) beefsteak tomatoes (8 lbs), cherry tomatoes (2.25 lbs), eggplant (1 lb), butternut squash (10 lbs), green beans (2.25 lbs), & wax beans (1 lb), so that's 37 lbs altogether!🥦🍆🍅 We'll see how long we can keep this going...🍂 Please support your local food bank!  Round 2: Our 2nd generation of cukes and zukes that we started mid-July for a fall harvest are coming along, boosted with our very own mealworm frass as always 🥒🐛🥒🐛🥒 Hoping these plants pump out lots of fruit before frost hits for @ftndurham 😀  |
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