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Garden Update

With spring just around the corner my guy is sprucing up the gardens and getting ready to prune our trees. This second year for our strawberry plants has been a bit odd; they flowered early but all the berries died during the last two cold snaps. Now they're flowering again.

I'm seeing new berries, too, so I'm hopeful these will grow up. I want to make some vegan strawberry ice cream as soon as it gets warmer.

The herbs are thriving. I need to trim the chives and dry some more oregano and parsley.

We decided to leave the broccoli plant rather than cut it out after we cut the first floret bloom. The brussel sprouts are growing nicely, and we still have radishes to pick.

We have multiple smaller florets growing now, so we'll cut these altogether to have broccoli a stir-fry one night.

The tiny little buds between the stalk and leaf stem will grow up to be the actual brussel sprouts.

We still have a couple of grapefruits to pick from Mom's memorial tree; I'm trying to make them last.

Judging by the new leaf buds and green branches I'm seeing Dad's orange tree might survive this winter, too.

My guy trimmed down our ornamental grasses in the front garden, but we expect they'll grow back quickly.

Although most of the succulents didn't survive, there are a few that made it, too. I think we're pretty lucky, all things considered.

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