Mom gave me two Claytonia virginica and there is now a third by them! Plus, a neighbor let us dig another from their yard.
Continue reading “03/22/2025 up to four spring beauties now”03/21/2025 wooly lip fern hardening off continues
Our baby ferns from spores!! Woolly lip fern (Cheilanthes tomentosa) theoretically should be fine in drier habitats, but these young plants have been very sensitive to removal of the container lid. So over the last few weeks I’ve been opening just a corner at a time to get them used to regular air without dying of shock. They curl up less and less each day with increasing exposure!
Continue reading “03/21/2025 wooly lip fern hardening off continues”03/17/2025 leaves pushing up
Excited to see some newer friends emerging.
Continue reading “03/17/2025 leaves pushing up”Tomato season
All seedlings have been diligently protected from Shackleton the cat this year. We do not trust him after last year’s grazing incident.
Continue reading “Tomato season”Sponge cake by the chefs
The Chef doesn’t bake often but he got wild yesterday.
Continue reading “Sponge cake by the chefs”02/16/2025 prairie grazing!
Briar likes to eat some of our prairie grasses sometimes, she’s no herd of bison. This winter we’ve been meaning to escalate into a full trim. The weather today was crisp, clear, and not too windy sheltered by the house, so we did the cuts! This is in hopes that we’ll get more species from past seeding events coming up.
Continue reading “02/16/2025 prairie grazing!”02/08/2025 new rain lily!!!
The sun came out this afternoon so we were tempted away from our plant spreadsheets to move some friends around.
Continue reading “02/08/2025 new rain lily!!!”Baby fern “hardening off” to world
Hardening off is getting indoor grown plants ready for the big world. Sometimes for indoor seedlings I’ll put a fan on them to preview the experience of wind. These ferns haven’t got that treatment yet because we have them in a little container sealed for humidity, but I figured it was time to get them ready for a spring debut into the world.
Continue reading “Baby fern “hardening off” to world”12/02/2024 persimmon jelly yummmm
The Chef has found the way to pull the deliciousness from the persimmons without too much seed trouble.
Continue reading “12/02/2024 persimmon jelly yummmm”11/29/2024 and 12/01/2024 past and future preserving of fruits
