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| Morning sunshine welcomes us to Mom's potting shed. A couple cantaloupes rest on the pallet table and harvest boxes wait to be filled by the door. |
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| First corn of the season. |
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| Grams counts out Triple Crown blackberry boxes. |
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| Mary has her boxes full of Triple Crown blackberries. |
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| Grams keeps picking. There are quite a few berries. |
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| Fall raspberries on some of the canes. Not all raspberries produce this time of year. |
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| Some branches bend down with their fruit. |
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| A glance at Mom's herb garden. Nasturtiums in the foreground. |
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| Summer squash in the foreground, peppers in the left hand rows. Drip irrigation on all the rows. Tall bushy/frilly row is the asparagus as it matures and replenishes the roots for next year. |
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| "Cruiser" cantaloupe. |
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| "Vedrantais" cantaloupe. |
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| Multi-colored carrots. |
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| Triple Crowns and raspberries in the boxes this week. |
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| Strangely shaped carrots. Hmmm. |
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| Yet another one. A six fingered carrot. |
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| Red Brandywine on the left, Orange Wellington on the right. |
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| Tomatoes as large as Lisa's tomato picking hands. Lovely "tomato dirt" washes off best by smushing a rotten tomato all over your hands. |
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| Broccoli and cauliflower. |
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| A cart full of various cherry tomatoes. Tomatoes include: yellow pear, Sun Sugar (orange), Mexico Midget (small red), Sweet Million (larger red). |
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| We thinks these are Brooks Prunes. |
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| Asian Pears. Crunchy and juicy. |
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| Many types of tomatoes on the cart. |
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| A box filling up: corn, peppers, carrots, onions, broccoli, cantaloupe, lemon cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, Triple Crown blackberries, raspberries. |
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| Cart full of summer squash with a few sneaky cantaloupe. |
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| Freshly picked basil. |
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| Zucchini, Patty Pan, Asian pears and Brooks prunes have been added. |
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| Anna's lunch includes items from the garden: cherry tomatoes, green beans, broccoli, basil. |
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| Our first Cosmos of the year. |
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| Lovely colors of statice. |
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| Pink and peach statice in with the two tone roses. Awwww. |
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| Sunflowers galore. |
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| Bright yellow. |
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| Lemon yellow with a reddish center ring. |
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| Ivory with a rosey ring. |
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| A gladiola up close. |
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| Multicolored zinnias. |
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| Rose. |
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| Soft pink rose with pale pink statice. |
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| Cosmos up close. |
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| Dark, velvety red rose. |
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| Delicate blue and lavender statice. |
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| Deep yellow rose, pale yellow dahlia, purple statice. |
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| Additional cactus zinnias. |
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| Pink carnations with blue statice. |
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| More carnations and statice. |
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| A swirly looking rose. Love the color variations. |
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| A favorite of ours, large, LARGE dahlias with many colors. |
