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Picked two fabulous looking pumpkins at Pingle's this weekend

Not as easy of a task as I thought it would be. The last time I carved pumpkins was in elementary school~ the memories!

Jackie feeling extra pretty now

"Psst, I hear he's a watermelon gone horribly wrong"
"You don't say..."

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What gives?! I just raked it yesterday!

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Not a lot of survivors. The bok choys in the greenhouse and peas are the only ones clinging on to life. The boy choys that were transplanted to the field earlier on have been gobbled up by some cursed slugs. The lettuce seedlings are alright but have been the size of a dime for the past two weeks. How unnatural is that? One cauliflower is bolting while the rest look terribly wilted. The carrots don't seem to be growing at all. Looks like my fall plan won't work out after all : ( what a bummer.

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One and only fully grown bok choy. It was extra tasty

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Never thought I would see Spongebob at the supermarket tending watermelons, but that's exactly what he's doing here.

Even Patrick is participating!

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Oh, what a mess

Not sure why the radish on the left is more purple than the other two

Mini bell peppers are finally ready! The grape tomato looks like the red pepper

Aww, how cute. They're nice to look at but pretty impractical when it comes to incorporating them in a meal

Posted in fall, harvest, pepper, radish, vegetable

So it turns out that the funny shaped eggplant really is a Rosa Bianca eggplant, not a black Beauty. It's all good though because this eggplant looks great!

Oh, not so much anymore when I flip the vegetable over

Posted in bug, eggplant, vegetable

Ack

Why????

Oh, it's those cursed slugs

Posted in bok choy, bug, vegetable

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The greenhouse got knocked down by the vigorous wind that has been hitting the city by surprise. I could barely make it from Loblaws back to my car the other day and it was only a few feet away. Anyhoo, there is now a wonderful mess in the yard with soil and pots scattered everywhere, most of them piled near the shed hole. Hmph.

Posted in bok choy, greenhouse, vegetable

I was so thrilled when I found several zucchini flowers at this time of year

Then I saw this poor bird. Sorry zucchini plant but you have to go now because memories of my late birds Elmo and Apple are resurfacing :*(

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The "good things groooooooow in Ontarioooo" song is now stuck on repeat in my head

Aww, look at teeny tiny bunny squished into a teeny tiny corner. He could fit in the palm of my hand

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For the longest time my venus flytrap was nothing more than a windowsill decoration. Then yesterday I got a nice surprise in the morning - look, it finally caught a fruit fly! Yes! Devour that little sucker >:D

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Got to start this soon or it will be too late

Posted in fall, illustration, patch, plan

Look what I found: a baby marigold flourishing outside the vegetable patch. It's now one with the lawn

Discovered a few sprigs of thyme growing in between the rose bushes

Here's a baby strawberry very much alive underneath a canopy of fallen rose petals and leaves

Posted in fall, flower, fruit, herb, marigold, strawberry, thyme, vegetable

My neighbour's new angry-at-the-world dog has finally taken a liking to me :D Now I can clean up the yard without fear that something will gnaw at my ankles.

Pretty gross looking hole in the bolting lettuce stem

A bit of white mould like stuff growing around the roots of a potted lettuce

Posted in fall, lettuce, pot, vegetable