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Happy #tomatotuesday! Our first cherry tomatoes are finally ripening. These Barry’s Crazy Cherry are my all time favorite. I’ve also picked a few chocolate pear and champagne bubbles. What’s your favorite cherry tomato?

Happy #meadmonday! This blackcap raspberry mead aged in the carboy 9 months before finally bottling and probably would have been even longer if we hadn’t planned on bringing a bottle to the fig tasting yesterday. I like how it came out better than the plum wine I also bottled up last week. I prefer a strong and dry wine/mead. This one came out at 15.5% ABV.

The pink lemonade blueberries are ready to pick! They’re extra pink this year.

Happy #figfriday! More figs are starting to ripen. This is the 3rd breba of the season, a Nero 600M. This is a fig I won on @ourfigs forum last Spring and it has turned out to be a very productive little fig. You can see more of this fig in my tasting video.

Nasturtiums are one of my favorite things to grow in my @watex.greenliving vertical garden. Growing lady bird rose from @floretflower for the first time and the other is saved seed from last year’s orchid cream that must have crossed with another variety. Do you grow vertical?

Yep the bunnies are back this season for another round but they are disappointed we fenced off the garden. They did too much damage last year and it was a pain trying to protect everything they were eating. Now they can't access any of the garden beds so they will have to settle for eating grass and weeds this year.

Happy #tomatotuesday! We are finally seeing some good progress on the tomatoes. This is the first tomato that's started to ripen and it's a larger size tomato. Who would have thought? This one is called Defiant and a Google search indicates it's an F1 Hybrid variety however I got it in a seed swap with @mariesbees250 in 2019. I reached out to her and she hasn't noticed any issues with the seeds she's saved and grown out so decided to give it a try. I'm impressed with how early it's started to ripen. Maybe it will be ready to pick by this weekend!

A lot of people here in the PNW are harvesting our first peppers and they look like this. We think it’s due to the big heatwave we had. Are you getting mini pods from your hot peppers too? These are fatalii and a chinense cross called “peachy”.

Harvested the first ripe pepper and a bunch of blueberries. This is the tinkerbell, a mini sweet bell though to be honest, it wasn’t as sweet as I hoped it would be.

Happy #flowerfriday! These two sweet pea varieties I got from @floretflower might be the best looking varieties I've ever seen. The purple is called nimbus and the pink is chocolate flake. Definitely going to save seeds from these. Do you have a favorite sweet pea variety?

Honey comes in lost of different shades. This is a look at our recent harvest of blackberry on the left and spring maple on the right. In the fall we should also get some knotweed which is a very dark honey. They also have very distinct tastes. Maple interestingly has a minty taste. Our blackberry has won many first place awards in the local bee club honey tastings. It’s my fav.

Send halp! The zucchinis won’t stop! #nationalsneaksomezucchiniontoyourneighborsporchday isn’t till August 8th! Who else is buried in zucchini?

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