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Picked toamotes today: 1st cosmic eclipse, 1st black sea man, 1st two dark gaalxy, blush tiger, black cherry, surnires bumblbee, and more atomic grapes. the atomic grapes we've been eating have the yummy cherry flavour i had noticed in dark galaxy and black beauty last year. dark galaxy has it and also a dark chocoale umami taste. can't wait.
harvested 4 pumpkins. took a bunch of green beefsteaks off the black krim. about 6 of them. one left on the plant which we jsut staked today.

We saw a hummingbird in our garden about a week ago! and gold finches on 2 separate occasions, one with a mate. just saw a monarch today. thinking of getting a hummingbird feeder. it was a grey one. fairly big.
Last night picked a hidden squash we jsut discovered by the corn plant. a very small Kikuza. today we cooked it and the other one, the 1st squash to set onthe plant. both squash were fairly tan coloured. lots of seeds, easy to separte from the stringy flesh. the cooked pumpkin is very tasty, not quite as thick as kabocha, but dense and fine graiend and tastes light lieka delicata almost, mixed with butternut. there is one big pumpkin ready to harvest, and 2 still gorwing, bigger than a baseball now.
raspberries are coming in fast now, big and juicy and so many flowers still fruiting.

Today we ate our first tomato from the "black krim" plant. however the foliage is potato leaf, which means its not black krim.
black sea man has potato leaf foliage.
Picked 4 atomic grape, 5 dark galaxy the size of golf balls. we have lots of ripe tomatoes in the kitchen.

got new toamtoes today from sweet poatto: tiny banana legs. pink candy stripe. possible black cherry. large roma green striped, possibly red.

Heard back from Sweet Potato who spoke to the farmer, and said we have a Winterbush squash. Cant find any info on it online. It must be a new variety, derived from Lower Salmon River squash. It sure is tasty.

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Reminder: plant garlic: yoguslav, russian, by halloween.
Harvest schedule:
tomatoes
amaranth leaves
potatoes
peppers
Herbs: mint, basil, oregano.

Plants to take in:
bromeliads: 3x clay pots of pink ones, 4x hanging baskets.
coleus
banana: x3
pothos, philos
amaryllis

stored as bulbs:
caladium
oxalis
fuchsia
glads
callas
acidenthra, tigridia

for sale: pothos, pink princess, oxalis, crypts.

tips: plant expo and CAOAC on the 13th.

Note: another name for green sausage tomato: Favorie de Bretagne (striped GWR)
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