Dinnertime

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The first real carrots! Rainbow mix. Amazing and the taste variance is spectacular.
White and blue potatoes with BBQ chicken and Ken made a salad from the garden: peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes…. Superb.

Three to four tomatoes a day, a cucumber everyday. Sowed arugula, spinach, and shock out the coriander seeds from this years crop to reseed. Sprouts everywhere.

The drunken wasp

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This wasp landed right on the celery leaf. Did a turn towards a drop of water and drank it up. The way the sun hit the water and his stripes exquisite.

We were in Nova Scotia for Jennifer’s wedding last week. Bill and Craig have an amazing sea side garden.

Back here the girls on the deck have started turning into boys. Cut three and looks like a fourth plant is going that way.

In the veg patch it is cucumber time. One a day. A bit of wilt on one plant, but so far so good. Tomatoes are turning but something is getting into them at night and taking a bite or two out of the
fruit then leaving it. Coriander and arugula in seed. Carrots might be ready to pick. Kevin’s tomatoes look great. Not encouraging to see the patch I stayed away from doing its best…

Pruned boxwoods, a bit late perhaps The wood was very firm.

Watering for 20 to 30 minutes at a time. Have to test out the new water meter.

One new edition, actually two. Lonicera caerulea (borealis + honeybee). “A cross pollinating duo”.

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