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we have 3 squash growing. none are fertilized yet. we have 2 fairytale along the fence. one is almost 2 inches big and the flower opens tomorrow.

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we have a polinated honey nut, and 1 pollinated farityale. the other 2 fairytale pumpkins fell off dead. another one is coming. we have 2 candy cane zinnias. our sunflower was dying we cut the big heads off.
cut back the dead yarrow flowers.
fertilizing eveyr wekend.
raspberries are still coming.

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picked red cherry tomato from the whiskey barrel. i didnt plant those.

pickd a handful of red cherry tomatoes fromt eh whiskey barrel. good tomatoes forming on pink brandywine. both black beauty dont have fruit. atomic grape has 1 bunch. tons of bunche sof grape sint h whiskey barrel. tas choc looks sick. 1 huge berkely tie dye growing. dark agalaxy has lots of huge otmatoes. no sign of blossom end rot until today - 1 tomato from behind cosmic eclipse.

harvested the potato barrel a fw days ago. th plant dried up and died. we got 2 small very hard blue potatoes. will cut tem open to see, then maybe plant thm.

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picked lucid gems with blossom end rot. almost all have it. also picked black beauty with ber romt eh whiskey barrel corner. not sure i i want to grow those 2 again. not performing well.. we have been picking red cherries, and some taz choc which are strangely small. the plant is diseased. other plants are healthy. picked 4 blush tiger so ar, they are our avourite. the other gates tomatoes look good.

amaranth has flowers! fiirst noticed buds a week ago. nwo we have 7 inch flowers on green and red. note: amranth does best in ground. bad or conatiners. though our contaienr amaranth is lowering too, but the plant is 1' tall.

white marigold is lowering! picked one today. it has a beautiul smell, like lilies, not too sweet. its great. plant is too tall or planters. should be in ground. in theat planter there is white double zinnia- 4", and white single zinnia - 4" tall. pink single zinnia 4" tall. looks liek a lollypop mix. 2nd planter: tyhe zinnias are small flowers, 2' tall. too talll or hangers. bright pink, one peachy.
3rd zinnia planter is the red center, orange/yellow zinnias. i love them. they are 4" tall and good or planters.
no sign o spry marigold or jolly jester.
4th plante3r has stunted amaranth, and the same ziinnias 2' tall and bright pinky colours.
int he pper bed are 2 zinnias: tall pinks 3' tall, and short pink doubles.6" tall.
i've started colelcting zinnia heads now and we made several bouquets o them around the house.
sunlowers are goen romt he octo-flower. but more sunlowers are about to bloom by the gutter.
we have 3 honeynut squash growing. pollinated just yeasterday. has 3 tiny emale lowers ina row. plant has hal dozen efmale lowers/ fruit on it. afirytale up rfont has 6 or so large ruit. not sure yet i they took its too early to tell. about a dozen more female flowers on it. today moved pots away romit. it needs 2' or 3' clearance romt he fence.

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flower seed saving

in flowerbed:
envy zinnia.

white zinnia.
peach zinnia.

magenta zinnia
red zinnia.
all are growing well.

next yera: no envy zinnias. less magenta zinnias.

planting perennials: blue thistle, coneflowers, rudbeckia.

works well:
amaranth on neighbors border.
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