From Forest to Skillet: Edible and Native Plants in the Cross Timbers of Oklahoma. 773 yard species and counting!
Well, a few more carrot seedlings disappeared under the bunny defense screen, so we put out some diatomaceous earth to try to stop the presumed earwig depredations (or whatever insect it is. I guess roly-polies are an option too but I haven’t seen any). We’ll see if it works.
Paula rightly pointed out that the baby peppers needed more room to grow.
We put about half of the baby primroses out. They do all have at least one adult leaf.
Put them in the rock garden.
There is a nice patch of bluets (Houstonia pusilla) in the front side yard. Eventually I want to get rid of the lawn in this area, so I tested transplanting some to the backyard.
Paula got me Claw Gloves!!
Wes made this hardware cloth screen cover for the raised bed with the most eaten seedlings.
Basil seedlings growing well!
Last night I took Briar out for her final business trip of the evening and noticed this big pile of earwigs feasting on fallen oak buds. Okay, I knew we had a lot of earwigs. I knew they nibbled on my purple potatoes last year. I have also suspected them of getting a few seedlings, like my coreopsis seedlings.
However, these earwigs chose an awfully suspicious place to dine. Right next to a denuded branch of moss-curled parsley.
Wes has just constructed me an anti-bunny defense screen for the front yard raised beds. So, soon we’ll find out… Are the bunnies really the culprits of the lost seedlings of mizuna, bok choy, and carrots? Did they, as suspected, eat all the leaves off my front yard parsley? Or am I going to have to find out if diatomaceous earth really works on earwigs?
Stay tuned.
