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Garden Time!

I must say, things are looking decent overall, but not as good as I would have wanted. The pumpkins are looking pretty scraggly and bedraggled overall; I wonder if I didn't get overenthusiastic in trimming things up last time?

Scraggly pumpkin vines.

More scraggly vines.

The one (taller) tomato plant seems to be doing reasonably well:



The other one seems to have fallen over again, despite efforts to tie it up. I'm definitely not getting that variety again next year.



Our peppers are doing really quite well (even the one that looks a bit droopy).

This pepper is about ready to eat.

That's the droopy one. The peppers on the other one aren't quite ripe yet, but there are more of them.

More peppers on a better-looking plant.

And the strawberry plant still has no strawberries (even though the blurb said that it can produce fruit through late September); but it's got some new growth sprouting round the edges.

Strawberry plant; no fruit yet, but we're waiting.

With however much of Irene that affects us over the weekend, it's probably going to be rather rainy through the weekend. (Maybe I should have picked the one pepper?) But we're looking forward to enjoying the produce in the next week or three. (And yes, I promise I will bake this weekend!)

God speed, and remember, All sorrows are less with bread.
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