Posted on June 11, 2021June 11, 2021Yesterday’s stuff The Chef got three jars of dehydrated onion stems/leaves from our harvest of granex bulb onions. The bulbs are still drying in the hall. My hat is irresistible to Gram. He tries to eat the string and tulle until I get fed up and put it up. Fleabane in full bloom! Photography is boring for dog. Dill starting to bloom. Elderberry is thriving. Full view. It’s just one plant! A tiny bee on Gaillardia pulchella. A young (?) lynx spider eats a house fly while sitting on coreopsis. Coneflowers are going strong. I need to look up the name of this skipper, which is sitting on a dayflower leaf.
Posted on June 11, 2021June 11, 2021Surprise primrose bloom! Didn’t expect a bloom until next year. From seeds from Mom! Thanks Mom! Missouri fluttermill primrose. Narrow leaf is the primrose, adjacent broad leaves are strawberries.
Posted on June 9, 2021June 9, 2021Little things growing Some of tepary beans have started to climb! Salvia coccinea seedlings emerge in an earwig-free environment. Likewise, maybe the baby basil will have more luck away from earwigs.
Posted on June 8, 2021June 8, 2021Humidity of spring Found the two tiniest stinkhorn mushrooms in the yard! Probably a bee fly? Decided the onions would probably dry better in the less humid air of house.
Posted on June 6, 2021June 6, 2021Soup for dinner Green onions in the soup and green onions in the cream cheese fried wontons!
Posted on June 5, 2021June 5, 2021Harvesting onions and hilling potatoes 6 kg of yellow granex onions. 4.5 kg white granex onions. Briar smiles over the bounty. The Chef is going to chop and dehydrate the stems/leaves for green onions. About 1.6 kg of green onion from both varieties. Put the last tub of city compost on the potatoes to “hill” them so they put out more roots. All the bags are fully opened up now. Zucchini begins.
Posted on June 5, 2021June 5, 2021Down to one apple I noticed a bump on one of the two remaining baby apples. The apple in question fell right off so I guess it was a goner anyways. A top view of the wee beastie after I coaxed it out with a piece of grass. I believe it’s a fly maggot but it seems too big from what I read of the common apple fly maggot (Rhagoletis sp). “Nooooo don’t turn me over” “Where’s my apple???” “Hmph.”. Back upright for a full length portrait with its prey.
Posted on June 5, 2021June 5, 2021Happenings! Yellow granex onions (white granex flowers appear same as far as I can tell). Garlic flowers with cilantro/coriander flowers in background. Mini bell pepper begins! Another sweet pepper, this one called corbaci! Moon and stars watermelon leaf. The fruit is speckled and honestly I think the leaf is that way too? I searched for online images yesterday and few showed the leaves well but I think it’s not a disease.
Posted on June 3, 2021June 3, 2021Not quite the right match My first frogfruit bloom! Frogfruit is the host plant of the Phaon Crescent, but this nearby butterfly is a Pearl Crescent 🤷😂
Posted on June 3, 2021June 3, 2021Sundrop I planted hundreds of seeds and this was the only survivor!