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| So many pretty fall colors. |
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| How a yellow straight neck squash grows. |
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| Pat, a lifetime friend of Lisa's, helps pick flowers. A beautiful day in the garden. |
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| Bees also like leaves to rest on. |
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| Chris, a friend of mine from Sprague's classrooms, picks the lemon cucumbers. Each of the yellow flowers has the potential to become a lemon cucumber. Wow. |
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| Anna gently picks the patty pan summer squash. |
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| A loaded slicing cucumber plant. |
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| These guys wish they had a bigger box... |
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| Bees hiding IN the flower. Pollination is occurring. |
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| Two kinds of bees crawled out. |
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| My helpers hanging on when we are in Grandpa's golf cart. Arms linked and hanging on to the side bars. |
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| Lisa points at a bee who thinks Lisa picked all the flowers for her! |
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| Angie picking (and taste testing occasionally) the Sun Sugar cherry tomatoes. |
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| Beautiful orange and red beets. |
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| Florencio cleans the beets, Lisa and Pat clean the extra leaves off of the flowers. |
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| Snowberry cherry tomatoes. |
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| Sweet Million cherry tomatoes. |
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| A branching sunflower. Multiple flowers on one plant unlike the old fashioned ones that have one huge seed head. |
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| A bee on the fennel flowers. |
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| Asparagus ferns with berries that will all turn red. This is a good thing! |
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| Volunteer sunflowers. One is old fashioned and the one in the back is a branching one. They are growing in the asparagus bed. |
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| An up close look at a sunflower. Many little flowers in the BIG seed head. These are called composite flowers. |
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| Scarlet runner beans. Pink seeds! Picking tomatoes can do a number on your hands. |
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| Faith (cousin) and her Bill dissect a scarlet runner bean. |
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| Tiny dahlias in among the other flowers. |
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| Cheery yellow dahlia. |
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| Ruffles with color! |
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| Tight rose bud with a bloomed out rose in the background. |
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| Lunch. Yumminess. |
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| Cantaloupe snacking. |
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| Honeydew, too. |
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| Faith hanging on "kid fashion" for safety. Bill in the front with Angie. "Let's go!" |
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| Florencio is excited about the lettuce. |
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| A big smiley sunflower. |
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| Gladiolas, statice and zinnias. |
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| Zinnias and statice. I really like these colors together. |
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| A very dark gladiola. Looks like velvet. |
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| A nice collection. |
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| Hot days call for icy treats. |
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| Cucs and patty pans. |
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| Lemon cucs. |
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| Jalapeno peppers. |
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| Plums, oh my! |
