My first 2026 #strawberry #flower has emerged. Lots of flowerbuds are getting ready to bloom. After the blooms, come some of my early, sweet, homegrown #strawberries 🍓
This is in a large garden bed in the side yard - there's thousands of strawberry plants in that bed 😃
We love eating strawberries so we grow lots of them. I have 3 different varieties growing in our front, side & backyards & 2 strawberry planters on our back deck too.

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First new 2026 hosta shoots emerging from soil. All #hostas are fully #edible 😊

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#arugula & #chard growing along gravel path. They #selfseeded.

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We regret to inform you of the sudden loss of Arne Victor Garvi on the 15th of August, after a short illness. He was one of our co-founders and an important senior advisor. His work started in Tanout 1986, when he crossed the Sahara with his family to settle in Niger. His mission was to regreen the desert with naturally drought-resistant food plants. We intend to carry on the work he began nearly 40 years ago.

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Front yard #food.

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I grew this bountiful #GroundCherry plant from seeds collected from last year's #VolunteerPlant. I dug a volunteer ground cherry plant out from a sidewalk crack, last year & transplanted into a pot. That plant provided loads of #fruits. I saved 2 of the largest fruits for sowing this year's plants - gave several seeds away too.

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#Lettuce talk.

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Good morning #harvest of red romaine #lettuce. Picked lots! I do succession seed sowing for most of my #homegrown #SaladGreens so there's a perpetual harvest 👩‍🌾

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Small morning #harvest from backyard.
Some #beans & cherry #tomatoes & lots of #VietnameseCoriander.

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