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One thing that’s showing consistent progress in my garden is sunflowers. I planted three varieties: Sunspot, Autumn Beauty, and Mammoth Grey Stripe.

I planted some in pots and particular other places, but because my raised garden beds are so meticulously geometrical, I thought some randomness needed to be thrown in. So I threw some sunflower and nasturtium seeds about randomly. The following pictures are of one of those random sunflowers. I’m guessing this one’s a mammoth grey stripe.

This was taken this morning…unfortunately, I’ve been playing with my camera and the settings weren’t right. I was going to go take another pic, but the battery was dead. And I don’t feel like trying to correct it in post production right now.

Here’s a picture of the same one taken 9 days ago (and in better light).

The progress of the corn can be seen as well, so that’s nice. Unfortunately, the squash and the watermelons that I’ve posted about recently…gone. I’m not sure if the watermelon is a victim of the sqirrels or one of the near flash flood downpours we had this past week, but the one I posted is not there, there’s just one little stub of something green in that area. And the corn in that bed is really, really sad. I seriously need to regroup in that bed. And since it’s the last one to get irrigation, I guess that’s okay. A fresh start next week or so.

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I knew that the melons had the yellow orange ‘moon and stars’, but I was surprised to see that the foliage has them too.

This one’s lagging behind a bit.

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A hummingbird I caught this morning. I should be posting a picture of something growing in my garden, because every time I walk out, the plants do look bigger and stronger. But I’m pretty happy with this pic. And I appreciate my fountain more and more.

(Now if I can just get the blogroll for GTS into my sidebar without breaking this theme…I’ll be even happier.)

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My first Green Thumb Sunday post. And I feel that I’m cheating already. I did not grow this tomato from seed. There…I said it.

But I do like taking macro photos of things. And this was pretty. And I probably wouldn’t have posted it otherwise. So there you go.

This is on a Hillbilly Potato Leaf tomato. My husband gets the job of choosing which tomatoes we’ll (I’ll) grow. It’s funny, but it’s almost the only interest he takes…so I say ‘knock yourself out’.

I’ve only been gardening again for a few weeks and have enjoyed getting to know the online garden world as much as the actual gardening. So I hope you’ll poke around a bit and see my progress.

It was 90+ degrees here today and LOTS of things are popping up through the soil. So I’m going back out to take some more pictures!

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