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Another handful of pear tomatoes. With incoming heat, there may be one more handful to go. 14 days till winter solstice

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I'm holding a handful of yellow pear shaped small tomatoes. Background is my shadow selfie along the current tomato bed

last of the fresh tomatillos for the season.

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7 green globes float in a white bowl water bath. A few bubbles hug the edges

Tomatillo plants protected from possible frost tonight🤞

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A canvas cloth from a folding cot is wrapped over and around a tomato cage and closed with binder clips

harvesting some of the last eggplant sown from seed into cell trays and transplanted into garden bed

19 days till winter solstice

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Three long purple eggplants held in my hand in bright morning sun. Background is soft green basil blur

bee kisses bring promise of lemons

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Two honeybees visit lemon tree flowers. One bee in sharp focus on the yellow stigma surrounded by white petals. A ripening lemon in soft focus in the foreground.

believe in nature's seed bank. a handful harvested today in late fall. tomatillos and yellow pear tomatoes grown from 10 + year old seeds 💚
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A pile of green globes with green and purple husks and yellow pear shaped tomatoes resting on a steel table

Through the year, I've been gently pruning this Meyer lemon tree. Each time I asked permission and said thank you with each cut. Breathe in and place shears, breathe out with the cut. Seems to have been what we both needed. #gardening #mindfulness #zone10b

Looking up at tree. A large green fruit starting to turn yellow. Clusters of white and pink flower buds tucked among leaves. Sky above is blue with white storm clouds building

Harvesting in between heavy rainstorms. Tomatillo and yellow pear tomato. Both from starting 10+ old seed in cell trays and then transplanting. Grateful past genetic diversity insured today's fruit during an extreme weather year. Mother Nature keeps feeding us while giving us chances to turn down the temp

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(Edits are me fussing about with the hastags. The edit feature is glitching today)

I'm holding a handful of fruit with a newly opened sunflower in the background. The tomatillos have green paperlike husks with purple veins. Some are covered with a bit of soil that splashed up during heavy downpours.

Throw seeds in the bed, forget about them, and welcome butterflies and bees. Boom!

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Somebody left me free tomato plants on my raised beds. I finally met the kind person who did it. They also gave me a bag full of dill, rosemary, cilantro, and lettuce. :) True community garden experience.

#GrowYourOwn #Fall2025 #Zone10B #OrganicGardening

A black container with a silver tape with the laurams dwarf tomato written on it. A tomato plant in the foreground, and a longevity spinach plant in the background

Another Laura’s bounty dwarf tomato black container. Two small tomato plants next to Mexican marigold plant

Two black krim tomato plants in a black container

Gomphrena flowers are having a moment right now.

I cut all of them to the root some 6-7 weeks back. They bounced back!

#BloomScrolling #Happy #Zone10B #Flowers #Nature

Today’s plan is to propagate Frogfruit.

Another native ground cover! I mean, I can do mulching, but that won’t attract bees and butterflies. This is a host plant for some butterflies here in South Florida.

I got the cuttings in the morning. Once the sun goes down, I will plant these directly in the soil. That’s the recommendation.

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Rats and mice chewed away the heads of all black-eyed plants. I planted a lot of mustard and some lentils. They seem not to care about mustard. So guess what? Next year, I am first going to plant mustard at the border and then black-eyed peas. Making mistakes and learning new lessons on the way.

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Early morning because it’s going to be a hot, humid, sunny day. I am here from an hour.

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Garden soil in a yellow bag, warm castings in a green bag, and mushroom fertilizer in a brown bag. A blue box with gardening tools, green and bluee tomato cages, and a rolling shopping cart to carry all this to the plot. All of this in the silver gray truck bed. A sticker on the right side of the rear window showing a robot called Bender from Futurama saying Bite My Shiny Metal Ass.

The side of the bed is richer and happier with rain.

I took this photo before I planted some green onions, too.

From top to bottom:
1. Coreopsis (Florida native)
2. Bitter melon vines
3. Roselle- Caribbean Sorrel
4. Rue
5. Milkweed (Florida native)
6. African Marigold
7. Sage
8. Thai chillies
9. Mexican Mint
10. Longevity spinach
11. New Zealand spinach
12. Green onion (not in photo)
13. Unknown basil seedlings (someone gave me the seedlings from their bed. They also don't know the variety. We will learn in a few weeks.)

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Bitter melon vines are vining!

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Bitter melon vines are ready to climb.

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First of all, cosmos are flowering. Yay!!!

And all black-eyed pea leaves are gone courtesy of iguanas.

So not happy.

Ordered a fence. Till then, we have to live with it. I know these plants will bounce back. They are tough.

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The black-eyed pea plants have no leaves left. At the top right, yellow Cosmo flowers are happy. At the top left, the rosemary plant is looking smart.

I mixed all these old seeds and threw them in a few containers with good soil. If something comes up, great. If not, no problem. For example, in an old container, I threw some old yarrow seeds in January, and they are flowering right now. In any case, throwing old seeds in the trash is a waste.

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Blanket flower and black eyed Susan seeds from Ferry Morse, Pacific beauty Calendula from High Mowing, and Bachelor Button and Blanket Flower seeds from Mary’s Heirloom Seeds. Seeds are mixed in a small pink container.

They wait for their turn to settle into Tiny Human’s backyard flower raised bed. I might have some time tomorrow evening to do it with her.

From left to right:
1 Victoria blue salvia,
1 Snapdragon overture II orange,
2 Gomphrena Audrey - White,
1 Gomphrena Audrey - Purple-Red,
1 Mexican mint marigold, and
1 Another orange snapdragon

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