Posted on February 27, 2024February 25, 202402/23/2024 venison dinner This one was a real treat! Continue reading “02/23/2024 venison dinner”
Posted on October 24, 2022October 24, 202210/24/2022 greens survived one night We were worried the front yard earwigs would eat them all up, but the various greens we transplanted from backyard pots survived the night and seem happy with an inch of rain overnight into this morning! the metal raised bed is surrounded by scattered leaves and individual plant species and varieties are marked by small white metal signs. There’s some bluish bok choy in the front, a more yellow green lettuce in the middle, and frilly scotch blue curled kale in the back next to a tall Fordham giant Swiss chard. Smaller plants are scattered nearby but I’ve forgottten which ones.
Posted on October 30, 2021October 31, 2021By popular demand A cabbage white egg A very small cabbage white caterpillar A bigger one I missed yesterday
Posted on October 30, 2021October 30, 2021Invasive and non native cabbage white butterflies Eating my cauliflower and cabbage. Squished em. I let my native herbivore friends stay but cabbage white butterflies are a nope.
Posted on September 26, 2021September 26, 2021Afternoon harvest and repotting Buckwheat is blooming. Peruvian ground cherries are having a few potential fruits! Paula and I repotted all the winter babies. More babies. The Missouri Yellow Watermelon weighs almost 12 lbs! It’s so ripe that when I started to slice, it cracked open more on its own. It was very tasty and sweet and crisp. In the evening, I sliced some peppers for freezing. Green ones are jalapeños from our garden and red ones are serranos from a friend. I made a small batch of salsa verde. Too little to can, so I froze it.
Posted on September 6, 2021September 7, 2021Holiday Sunday An outdoor dinner. Garden basil and oregano. Moved the chives and garlic chives that Judy gave me last year. Maybe they’ll like this spot better. Uzbek golden, little, and New Kuroda carrots. Gram helps me get seeds out. Fall seeds planted of cabbage, mizuna, greens, and cauliflower. Tomatoes and peppers for overwintering. And a few pots of Roman chamomile for the front yard ground cover. This is where I shall attempt peppers and tomatoes over the winter. This goldenrod was already here and is doing very nicely. A giant 1″+ horsefly on a backyard window sill. Never going outside again. I lied. Outside again. Chiltepin peppers. Frostweed doing alright after it died back earlier in summer. A little spider got this Eastern Tailed-Blue on the englemann daisy. Texas mallow blooming! The non native clematis. I’ll clean it out over the winter. Okra flower A bumblebee on the okra!