First batch of tomato passata sauce has been processed! Many more to come.
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A good hour's work before breakfast: Picked raspberries, fed flowers, harvested onions, got a solid start on weeding the apple tree bed. #Garden2023

Little green grapes are growing every day. #Garden2023 #garden

'Outta Da Blue' dahlia opens a single petal. #Garden2023 #garden

Lily pouring out a scent that combines clove, vanilla, and daffodil. #Garden2023 #garden

Cardinal climber vines starting the upward zoom. In back: 'Lady of Shalott' rose and zinnias 'Benary's Giant' and 'Oklahoma.' #Garden2023 #garden

Latest 'Bishop's Children' seedling to flower. #Garden2023

California poppies grow where *they* want, not necessarily where I sow them. :) Here in back of a strawberry barrel. #Garden2023

'Jacon Cline' bee balm makes a small, quiet explosion. #Garden2023

Bright cantaloupe-orange 'Lady of Shalott' rose and magenta rose campion with Siberian iris foliage. #Garden2023

Bee enjoys an echinacea. #Garden2023

Gourds, squash, pole beans,cucumbers, cardinal climber reaching green critical mass before they launch upwards. Zinnias across the path, raspberries to the right. #Garden2023

The leaves reveal this is a Three Sisters bed of corn, beans, and gourds. #Garden2023

'Table Ace' acorn squash surging up and out of its cage already. Spot the potential baby squash. #Garden2023

Sunlight glowing through these dark heuchera leaves like stained glass. #Garden2023

Dahlias making their own sunshine. Yellow dinnerplate came from a no-name mix. Doesn't spread, but it persists year after year. #Garden2023

Sunflower bud progressing steadily. The plants bend slightly and bow their heads toward the sun. They were facing east when I took this picture. #Garden2023

Can't resist a good 'Lady of Shalott' rose portrait with that intense color they have on first opening. :) #Garden2023

Abundant leaves of 'Speckled Hound' on the left and 'Magic Lantern' on the right in the pumpkin bed. 'Cinderella' is in there somewhere too. :) #Garden2023

'Cinnamon Girl' pie pumpkin making good growth next to a 'Reliance' grape. Beyond are acorn and butternut squashes, tomatillos, 'Honeyboat' squash and morning glories. #Garden2023