Bowl of mystery tiny heirloom cherry tomatoes, coMpared to two (2) long-awaited heirloom black cherry tomatoes, which aren’t quiiiite ready to eat.
A bee I’ve not seen before!
Google Lens says it’s Megachile rotundata
https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/GARDEN/PLANTS/INVERT/leafcutbes.html
It Does look like a Leafcutter or Mason Bee. Here’s a good read on CA bees.
Oh wow! I took so many pics of different bees when I had the tiny tomato farm during the pandemic, I should pull them out to see which ones they were!
Green pepper big poppa, Roma tomatoes breaking color, the native goldenrod I planted last fall getting ready to bloom, my first Purple Cherokee for eatin.’
Perfect. Thank you !
My first artichoke didn’t blossom this year. I’m going to try to keep the crown indoors over winter, in peat moss.
Beautiful!
I am in awe!
Grapes! There were others that I thought I had hidden from predators, but apparently I hid them FOR predators.
We went away for several days on vacation, harvesting everything from the kitchen garden worth picking before we left. Here is what we came back to after four days of neglect.
Those look great, especially for being “neglected”!