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Category archives: Home & Garden

Japanese Maple

Our Japanese Maples are confused – they’re growing new leaves as we head into winter. I guess that’s to be expected since they moved from the fog into a warmer climate.

The Japanese Maples are confused...

The Japanese Maples are confused...

The Japanese Maples are confused...

Fringed Tulips

My sis received these beautiful tulips after her baby was born.

Fringed Tulips

The Furminator!

This is only about 5% of the hair that came off of the cur. This is the large brush for my very large and very hairy dog. I recommend wetting the fur a bit to prevent static buildup while you’re brushing.

Furminator

Jeez, I just checked Amazon and you can get it for less than $25. I bought mine for $60.

Salad

Salad

Finally, the first beans are here!

Finally, the first  beans are here!

Baby Strawberries

Baby Strawberries

Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit
Thanks to my friend Outback Rebel, I now know that this is called Lilly Pilly fruit

Hot Pink

Garden Update

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.

Decorative Gourd Bloom

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. :/

Pumpkin Vine

Here’s one of my three cucumber sprouts. These are doing much better than the zucchini vines so far.

Cucumber Sprout

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…

More baby strawberries

The Scarlet Gleam nasturtium plants are doing well. There’s obviously some little creepy crawlies that think they are tasty. ;)

Crimson Nasturtium

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.

Finally! Red Tomatoes!!!

Finally, some baby pumpkins!

Baby Pumpkin!

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.