Walnut picking afternoon.
My favorite part is searching for walnuts in the grass and among fallen leaves, even though it’s a lot more work than if the grass would have been raked and cut. Greta is an expert in cracking open walnuts and eating the core, but I had to shoo her away after eating 18 only from underneath the first tree.
Saving some wild tomato seeds from that volunteer plant because I’ve realized I have none left from previous years.
(Those drying seeds are actually from only half of those tomatoes and the already dried and packed ones are from last week.)
I just realized that almost all of my pictures of sunflowers have the sky as background because they are so, so tall.
These are some of the plants from this year. Lots of small flowers for cutting, but still a few good size heads full of seeds and even a fasciated one .
Volunteer pendant amaranth at the edge of the berry garden. For a while when I first noticed it I debated pulling it out, but I’m glad I didn’t.
Remember this sunflower? (also here)
It’s almost ready to be harvested. My dad will have to chop it down with an axe and dig out the roots with a spade. He grumbles every autumn that I’m breaking his back with the giant sunflowers I grow.
Broke this pepper plant by mistake ☹ At least most of the peppers on it have already ripened.
I managed to get both lemon trees rid of the red mites, they’ve been healthy for around half a year now, but have not flowered at all during that time. This is the first flower to appear since they’re mites-free. I cannot wait to see if it’ll grow and develop into a mature lemon. One lemon, fully ripened, that’s all I ask.
Same blackberry, first picture taken yesterday around noon, second one this morning.
Such a difference less than a day can make.
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