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Posted on March 17, 2025

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.

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Posted on March 15, 2025March 15, 2025

03/15/2025 peach flower

Feels a little early for the peach tree but I need to check the records.

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Posted on March 15, 2025March 15, 2025

Sponge cake by the chefs

The Chef doesn’t bake often but he got wild yesterday.

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Posted on February 16, 2025February 16, 2025

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.

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Posted on February 8, 2025February 16, 2025

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.

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Posted on February 8, 2025February 9, 2025

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.

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Posted on December 14, 2024December 14, 2024

12/14/2024 plants in their home

Mom and Dad kindly invited me to visit Chickasaw National Recreation Area with them this weekend. The cats get a rest from Briar’s ideas.

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Posted on December 3, 2024December 3, 2024

12/03/2024 frostweed

The low this morning was 25 F and one frostweed finally let out some ice!

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Posted on December 2, 2024December 3, 2024

12/02/2024 persimmon jelly yummmm

The Chef has found the way to pull the deliciousness from the persimmons without too much seed trouble.

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Posted on December 1, 2024December 1, 2024

11/29/2024 and 12/01/2024 past and future preserving of fruits

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