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On Wednesday this week, I rescued all our houseplants and our 4 blooming Mandila from outside and brought them in. Our home is a bit of a mix-up with a visiting Dog and a Cockatiel in a LARGE cage. So now, I have plants everywhere, and nowhere to put them. 

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My Ivy Tree loved it outside this year with so much rain, sunshine and heat...I think it is thicker than ever. Eventually it will land in the bedroom. I used a organic bug spray on all my plants and tied them up inside plastic bags for a half-day before bringing them in...hopefully I brought in just plants and no bugs.

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Our crazy weather year, so many plants were late...the too hot June and July was great for growth, but no flowering.  Too much rain kept vegetable blossoms from being pollinated. My Impatiens look the best right now...and the Mandilla only began blooming in September...yep, a crazy year. 

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I don't know the name of this plant but it tripled in size. It's from my Dad from 2012 and has just been existing and now it's super big. I have a little Halloween here and there.

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I did an OctoberFest Fall with Fall colors, tankards and steins, my beer truck carving, earthy pottery pieces mixed with some blue and white. I love the Sunflower stitchery from my good friend, Dot. It's a favorite and moves around the house quite a bit. The sunflower bowl I bought at a thrift store to make a garden stake...well, next year.

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I didn't do many garden posts because the garden was such a disappointment. Despite generous rain, the heat actually shut many plants down.

I still have green tomatoes now, because we had none in July. We did have quite a bit of squash, and some pumpkins and smaller squash. I have a basket on the table filled with garden produce. I had a huge Zucchini, which must have pollinated with a pumpkin...and now it's orange? I'll show it when I open it to find out if it's a Zucchini or a Pumpkin???? Love surprises!

The neighbors' Chestnut tree had mature leaves this year, and they are just gorgeous copper and rust. I brought a few in to dry and use in decorating

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I'm not sure what I will do with them yet, I'll tuck a few in the basket. I spent a hour in the garden picking the last of the produce. The two sunflower heads were on stalks 12 feet tall....and the stalks were too big for my clipper.

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They are still quite moist. I want to harvest some seeds, and the birds/squirrels and raccoons have already had their way with them. Another blossom was ripped to shreds and dragged to the ground. These two (10-11" across) were looped over a beam across the garden. When I unhooked them they crashed down across the 10 foot high miniature corn...LOL.

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This is our miniature corn, 6-8" cobs of multicolored corn. We had excellent pollination and the ears are full except for a couple of the tips. There are still more on the stalks, (some stalks had 2-3 cobs), for later but they are still very green. Goodness it's the 3rd week of October. 

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I cut my basil and dumped it in a jar of water, and a bowl of tomatoes to ripen,

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Also a half a colander of small ripe peppers, seeds from flowers that are drying. I have more Zinnias blooming now than in August??? I have huge green Balsam plants that haven't bloomed yet? 

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Thats a 10" pie plate so those are small tomatoes, and the long squash is the last one and they are delish...I believe some sort of Delicata...I got the seeds from my friend.

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A few green beans for a treat for the dog, some cherry tomatoes, and a few mini broccoli...honestly a bunch of mini vegetables, Barbie scale, lol.

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Another garden pumpkin...and some Avocado seeds trying to start. My Begonia is coming back after being drowned and boiled in July, it was down to one leaf, but is finally coming back in the house.

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A bit of Fall, and some mini plants I'm babysitting for my friend.

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It's really Fall, finally. We expect a frost on Saturday. Hopefully we can get most things taken in or mulched. My Dahlias are monster green things and really blooming now...and they will all be wiped out. 

The Dahlia bulbs should be huge when I dig them all up.

Other Fall jobs, clean the garden, empty all the pots, greenhouse, take in the hoses and all the leaves which haven't turned or dropped yet...maybe when it snows, LOL.

Just 2025....A WEIRD YEAR!!!

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