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.
Posted on June 22, 2021June 23, 2021Assorted day off activities and observations Several strawberry runners took root so I snipped the runners. I set out a tray of dirt to try to capture more strawberry runners. The Chef helped me cut down the yaupon holly that was planted in a bad spot. It kept hitting the garage roof and gutter. Nine of ten water barrels are now in place for use! Dinner… I made it this time. It includes a few of the new tomatoes (as well as a store tomato) and fresh garden basil and oregano. Got mail!! Drying coriander (the cilantro seeds) for later harvest! Tepary beans reaching up! Wild poinsettia (A volunteer). The prairie and its rain barrel. Rudbeckia is looking great. A true bug. Standing cypress about to bloom!
Posted on June 21, 2021June 21, 2021Leonberries Blackberries from the Leon Memorial Bushes on Braum’s vanilla ice cream.
Posted on June 20, 2021June 20, 2021First harvests and little friend 95 g of blackberries!! A dinner’s worth of green beans! From Mbombo (more) and blue lake (fewer and smaller) beans. A lightning bug sitting on the zucchini. A’grappoli d’inverno tomatoes (larger ones) and white currant tomatoes (small yellow ones). I’m delighted the white currants grew true to seed since I collected them last year! The Chef cooked the green beans with bacon and put walking onions chopped on baked potato. A little gray treefrog guards the zucchini from a radish leaf!
Posted on June 19, 2021June 19, 2021Neon stripes An adult spittlebug!! I love their stripes, so unusual to see something with horizontal stripes.
Posted on June 19, 2021June 19, 2021Pleasant surprise Mom gave me Rudbeckia amplexicaulis seeds last year and I hadn’t seen any seedling candidates, but apparently I missed some! Here are very small ones flowering!