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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.

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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.