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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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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.
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
9am is also too late to be out in the garden to work. Phew!
Pic1: Black eyed peas and cosmos are growing well.
Pic2: Planted new plants - Sage, Rue, Thai green chilies, and Caribbean sorrel. Too late to start from seeds.
Pic3: Firebush is in its glow-ry. I was trying to click the bee, but failed.
Black eyed peas are popping! They will be the cover crop for one side of the raised bed.
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Harvested some mangoes. All of them are gone because I gave them to someone who wants to make mango pickles.
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This pepper plant was not doing well, even with good soil and fertilizer. I planted amaranth in the bag. Now, the little girl and the amaranth plant are all grown up. I will chop off the amaranth and cook it today. I will leave some leaves so that they keep supporting the pepper plant.
It’s not an intended genius move. I did it because I wanted to experiment.
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I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it today! I had to remove the diseased guava tree from here. I kept putting kitchen scraps in the empty land. Of course, now that spring is here, weeds are also taking over. However, see this? These are guava plants!!!! Apparently, I left a root or two. There are so many of them here. I love it!!! Let me try transplanting them to other parts of the gardens over the weekend.
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:( I can’t delay putting a fence around raised beds anymore. I planted a whole bed of veggies. Everything is gone. Cats, iguanas, and squirrels are interested in digging and eating seedlings. It’s not that they will go hungry, especially my mortal enemies, the iguanas. Arrgh!!! I am left with three or four bokchoy, but who knows how long they will last, too.
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I missed including some other flowers. Some of the flowers in the garden. I included squash and tomato flowers too. 
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Getting closer to eating my fav childhood summer dinner. Tinde ki subzi, phulke, kale namak ki lassi.
These are tinda (Indian squash) flowers.
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It is the season to pick up dried and spent marigolds from the plants and spread seeds wherever possible. More flowers never hurt.
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I found a gumbo limbo plant. I wonder which bird brought these seeds. There are no squirrels around. Yet.
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Jasmine and Curry Patta have taken over the bench. The only reason I don't want to move it is that it looks cute.
They are doing so well because they share the soil with sunshine mimosa, which is a nitrogen fixer.
#Gardening #BackyardGarden #GrowYourOwn #OrganicGardening #Zone10B #SouthFlorida
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Now I am even more inspired to grow for my friends. This is my love language.