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This plant was grown from the seeds Maddie harvested from a decorative gourd she and her friend were playing baseball with a couple of years ago! We can't remember what the gourd looked like, so it'll be fun to see what we get.
The pumpkin vine has grown to the end of the enclosure, turned the corner, and is almost at the outer corner. I wonder how long it'll get. I really wonder if any of these pumpkins will actually get any bigger. :/
Here's one of my three cucumber sprouts. These are doing much better than the zucchini vines so far.
Here we have some more baby strawberries. I think we've had maybe three perfect red ripe strawberries from these plants. Maybe next year will have a better yield...
The Scarlet Gleam nasturtium plants are doing well. There's obviously some little creepy crawlies that think they are tasty. ;)
Finally! Red Tomatoes!!! I found these on the Early Girl vine. Early, haha. I guess I'm lucky to have any tomatoes at all living so close to the ocean. I'm wondering if the water residue on the tomatoes has salt in it. We don't usually have hard water, though.
It's exciting to finally see some pumpkins on the vine Maddie planted from one of the seeds from her class Jack O'Lantern last Halloween. I was starting to worry because the flowers keep shriveling up and falling off. I've never had a pumpkin vine before though, so I'm sure that's just part of the process.
I grew these baby peppermint plants from seed. They took a long time to germinate, so when they sprouted I had completely forgotten what I'd planted. I couldn't tell what they were at first, but they had the cutest teeny tiny leaves. I didn't thin them out when they were tiny because they seemed so fragile, but I am taking the larger sprouts and replanting them when they start to seem crowded.
