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🌱 Growing food at home (wins & fails)
🍅 Fruits • veggies • real garden life
📍 Zone 10 | SoCal backyard
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10/10/2026

A little harvest before handing over the garden keys! 🌱🍅🌶️🍆

Before leaving for Thailand, I gathered what I could from the garden and left the rest in my husband’s capable hands. Well… hopefully capable.😬 The tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers have been keeping me busy, but now it’s his turn to keep everything alive while I’m halfway around the world.🤭 I’m enjoying my time in Thailand, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t wondering how my garden babies are doing back home.

Anyone else get a little separation anxiety when leaving their garden behind?

10/07/2026

The last grape harvest of the season. 🍇💜

We picked every last bunch from the vine, and I couldn’t think of a better way to finish the season than turning some of them into homemade grape jam.

This vine gave us so much fruit this year—from fresh grapes straight off the vine, to a grape crostata, pie, ice cream, and now jam from the final harvest. 🥹

Not a single grape season wasted around here. 😂

And just like that… grape season is officially over. Until next year. 🍇

10/05/2026

When your giveaway prize arrives in a Penske Truck…you know things have gotten serious. 😆🍄

I won 60 BAGS of mushroom compost from Back to the Roots! 🤯

Not just a bag.
Not a few bags.
A WHOLE PALLET. 😂

As someone who grows as much as I possibly can in a small garden, this might be one of the best prizes I could have won. Raised beds, containers, fruit trees… I already know exactly where a lot of this is going. 🌱

Huge thanks to Back to the Roots for keeping my garden very well fed for the foreseeable future. 💚

09/30/2026

Tomato Tuesday mystery solved! 🍅🔎

I’ve been waiting for this volunteer to ripen because I had absolutely no clue what variety it was.

Then I watched the colors change—green with purple-black shoulders, then yellow, and finally deep red—and I’m pretty sure we have Indigo Gold Berries. 🍅

Which makes this even funnier…

The Indigo Gold Berries I actually planted struggled all summer and eventually died.

Meanwhile, this volunteer showed up completely uninvited and turned into an absolute BEAST. 😂

Of course it did. 🙄😂

09/25/2026

Fruit Friday?😆

It’s officially fall, but apparently nobody told the fruit garden.😂

Figs are forming, guavas are sizing up, dragon fruit buds are popping up everywhere—and the Asian pear, apples, grapes, lemon guava, and jujubes are already working on round TWO for the year. 🙌🏼

Some are blooming, some are just getting started, and some are getting closer to harvest. Fall around here has its own definition. 😂

Soooo…Fruit Friday? I think I just made it a thing. 🤷🏻‍♀️

What fruit is still growing in your garden this fall?

09/24/2026

My giveaway luck strikes again. 🤭😂

This one was such a fun package to open. 🐦So many goodies, and the handwritten note was such a sweet little touch.

Thank you so much COOL BIRDS for putting together such a thoughtful giveaway! With all the birds constantly visiting my garden, I already know that bird-watching book is going to come in handy. 😂🐦

Can’t wait to put everything to good use!💚

09/22/2026

First day of fall. 🍂 Meanwhile, my garden… 😂

Apparently nobody out here got the memo that summer is over. Tomatoes are still producing, eggplants are going strong, Hawaiian sweet potatoes are happily taking over, and the beans are just getting started. 🌱

There are a few plants looking a little rough around the edges 😬, but for the most part, the garden has no intention of slowing down yet.

Fall on the calendar.
Summer in the garden. 😂🌿

09/19/2026

Two minutes. That’s all it took. 😳

I spotted this praying mantis hanging upside down in the garden with a wasp in its grip. Two minutes later… there was basically nothing left. 😬😂

Praying mantises are opportunistic predators, and apparently this one was not intimidated by a wasp—or interested in savoring its meal.

Garden wildlife is WILD. I’m just glad I had my camera nearby. 📸

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