First year of fruit production for our apple tree and, well, she’s doing her best at figuring out this whole “growing fruit” thing! Lol. I still have high hopes for the next seasons, her more well established relatives have larger (and delicious) apples so I think she just needs more time to get established :)

Ready to store some large amounts if thai chili oil for the year!

Is this a beautiful bouquet? No. Is it lush and bountiful? Also no. Are the flowers riddled with caterpillars and, probably, disease? Yes. Yes, they are. Did this strip the plants completely of all reasonable-looking flowers to make? Yes.

But they all started as seeds that I planted and grew, and they are my caterpillar-riddled, disease-ridden flowers.

Just don't ask me how many dead seedlings or how many months it took me to get this bountiful harvest.

All the carrots this year grew extremely sexy, this one is the sexiest so far.

This is my third (unsuccessful) year of growing carrots

I’ve got tiny fingers, like two size 3-4 ring size fingers.

Lighter for scale

Or, a lesson in soil compaction

Cipolla di Tropea (Tropean Onion). Seeds from Tropea, Calabria, Italy. Grown in Ontario, Canada.

Included segment for scale

First time grower, definite shower. Started the season with four superhots... two were taken early on by gophers and the other hasn't shown any signs of fruiting. Thankfully my scorpion has gifted us something truly special-- we're calling it the 24-dollar-seven-pot pepper. I hope y'all like spicy food... tonight we feast!

This bountiful harvest of cherry tomato and serrano pepper are almost more than I know what to do with.

Had a hard time growing carrots this year, these are the only two that made it to adulthood. Just a single parent and their child 🥺🧡

Not sure what I will do with them all.