Christmas Arrangement
Tending My Garden
Got half the garden installed.
Tending my garden.
It's not a great pic, but I titled one long row and installed a fence for the climbing vines to scale (saves on ground space and makes harvesting much easier): Cucumbers, zucchini, yellow crooked-neck squash, butternut squash.
Tomorrow it'll be broccoli, lettuce, bell peppers, tomatoes and cabbage.
Tending my garden.
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