Posted on June 25, 2021June 25, 2021After work, garden times Plant instructions said to let them readjust to the world before planting, so they are outside in indirect light to start. Cilantro turning to coriander (the seed). White currant tomato seeds saved from last year grew true to variety!! Garlic harvest was very sparse. I guess the big February deep freeze got more than I thought. Moon and stars watermelon leaf has such adorable “stars”! I can’t wait for the fruit. Added more cardboard to my backyard Bermuda grass killing operation. Thank you Dad for this excellent giant cardboard!! One area of Bermuda grass in the backyard seemed dead enough to reseed with buffalograss and curly mesquite grass. A beautiful very smooth gray moth. Maybe an Arctiid? I need to look it up. My finger for scale.
Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021Opening the box No time to plant until after work, but my live plants arrived this morning!! Very clever packaging. Source was Mountain Valley Growers, in California, a new place for me.
Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021Supervisors getting ready for their working day Not shown in this picture of innocence: Gram waking me up 1.5 hrs before my alarm clock by pouncing on my toes under blankets. Briar has been a good this morning, though. What about THESE toes??? She’s ready. The classic stare-off. He had a few good meows during this too. Surprise attack!!! The dog loves to fall over dramatically when he goes for her neck when she is already laying down.
Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021French onion soup First we must get approval of herbs (moss curled parsley) from the sous chef. The cooking begins. French onion soup with a side of chicken. Onions and parsley from the garden.
Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021The green part of rainbow Seedlings of Fordham giant Swiss Chard!!! It was only 4 days.
Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021Bumblebee On Echinacea sp (probably purpurea but I have also seeded pallida)
Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021Some seeds in the ground for my rainbow! Also got mulch back in place over some cardboard. Seeds in ground are two kinds of marigolds (for yellow and orange), red zinnias, purple verbena (unfortunately a non native one that I ordered accidentally but it doesn’t sound awful), and standing cypress (which would bloom next year). I need to start butterfly milkweed (orange) cold stratifying.
Posted on June 22, 2021June 22, 2021It bloomed!!! The standing cypress has started blooming!! Close up
Posted on June 22, 2021June 23, 2021Sunday field trip to Lexington WMA Butterfly milkweed. Wild heliotrope. Had leaves like greenthread but a yellow center on flower. Compass plants all facing what we think was east. Bigger view of the compass plant valley. A megachilid bee on butterfly milkweed! A whole field of Echinacea! Rosa sp. I know this one. I’ll look it up. Edit: wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), thanks Mom 🙂 Happy!!!! A Dun Skipper on prairie bluets. Asclepias viridiflora (thanks Abby and Mom!) Shade good for fluffy dog. Another view of the Echinacea field. Note the matching orange dog in background. I remember this plant. She tried to get humans to join her but we’re no fun.