All the cucumbers, melons, squash, and 1 runner bean are up. I thinned everything to 2. When the first cucumber sprouted I looked at the bottom of the pot by chance and noticed there was already a root poking out! The hibiscus has another flower ready to open, the other fell off the same day I noticed it so I guess I missed it for a day or two.

#gardening #GrowYourOwn #GrownFromSeed #garden #hibiscus #cucumbers #melons #squash #SavedSeeds

Melloona – where things grow a little differently

• ♥ ! • Happy Fantasy Faire • ! ♥ • It’s that time of the year again. Every year I think I know what to expect, and every year it still feels a bit unreal when everything finally comes together. What starts as scattered ideas becomes a world of its own. This year, Luna and I sponsored and built Melloona. Melloona is a quiet, curious realm where the familiar turns gently impossible. Expect wild colors, vines and of course, melons. It doesn’t shout, it hums softly and […]

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Yippie skippy! Picked up about 40-50 pounds of fresh produce today from the monthly Borderland food rescue non-profit. They pick up veggies and fruit stored in big warehouses by the growers in Yuma. It’s all very fresh and donated as long as Borderlands can get a few trucks and drivers and volunteers.

You don’t know from one month to the next what you will have and how much, so they try to spread it through the state taking different locations. In the Valley here there could be 4 and then one in Tucson, 1 in Safford and one in Ajo.

I get to make my spaghetti sauce today! Love it because it cooks half the day and the house smells great. I freeze it in ziplock bags to use all year mixed with canned spaghetti sauce. It always tastes fresh and homemade. Squash, zucchini, bell peppers, melons too. I send half home to our helper’s family.
#Food #Tomatoes #Squash #Melons #Peppers