Posted on July 2, 2022July 2, 202207/02/2022 pasta dish Pasta sauce contains garden garlic and garden onions and the pesto on top is with our basil.
Posted on June 27, 2022June 27, 202206/26/2022 kimchi pancake dinner Paula made dinner with kimchi pancakes (with plum sauce) and egg foo young on rice to go with it. Cilantro from the garden is garnishing all of it, plus the kimchi contains walking onions. Red cabbage kimchi makes a mess. More walking onions from the garden here.
Posted on June 27, 2022June 27, 202206/27/2022 A paper wasp flies to mealy blue sage. Using the two new wasp books, we narrowed it down to three species of Polistes: dorsalis, bellicosus, or fuscatus. I’ll look this wasp up tomorrow in the pollinator wasps book. It was going in and out of the hollow dead branch. The native black currant is ripening! Pizza with garden basil, garden onions, garden garlic.
Posted on June 27, 2022June 27, 202206/27/2022 a single giant clove This giant garlic got mixed in with the onions.
Posted on June 20, 2022June 20, 202206/19/2022 Will Rogers Zinnias came back true. A little Solanaceae volunteered in the rainbow garden. It conveniently has a yellow flower. Paula started a batch of kimchi fermenting. Walking onions for the green onion. Who is this This friend not want to play
Posted on June 18, 2022June 18, 202206/15/2022 to bee or not to bee, plus “freeloader flies” Before I left for work, I saw two bumblebees on the culinary sage flowers. Local bee expert José Montalva helped confirm the identification as Bombus bimaculatus (two spotted bumblebee) and sent me a very helpful article on the status of this and other bumblebee species in Oklahoma. It’s more of an eastern species so it is very cool to have them here on the edge of their range. This is also the third bumblebee species for our yard. This was the best picture though not the best identification angle. Big pollen bags on her legs! A little wasp on the purple coneflower. On campus, I saw several Fiery Skippers on lantana. Here’s another Fiery Skipper on campus lantana. Back at home, the blue flax is thinking about blooming! The Chef made egg drop soup with garden walking onions as a garnish. Car ride!! Saw a friend. Wow! Little lumpy beetles are on a lot of flowers right now. They’re cute. In the evening I saw one or two more two-spotted bumblebees, this time over on the perennial coreopsis. I didn’t manage to get a good picture of the spots in the evening. But I got some decent side views. Lightning bug! A paper wasp. An immature assassin bug eating some sort of probable pentatomid bug. Zoom in though and you’ll see several kinds of flies!! I’m not sure, but I think they might be some kind of kleptoparasitic fly that steals nibbles from bigger predators.
Posted on June 18, 2022June 18, 202206/16/2022 BLT with garden lettuce. Tomatoes and potatoes from farm share. Interesting creature Paula brought us some great new border rocks!
Posted on June 12, 2022June 12, 202206/11/2022 The Chef made no bake lemon curd/ cheesecake layered parfaits with homemade whipped cream, farm share blueberries, and homemade granola for a garden tour. Prepared the night before in the fridge. Perfect for the tropically humid day. A wasp carrying a caterpillar Spittlebug Hello Tuqu This young man. Two Texas dandelions from home! White specks are elderberry petals. Bee fly Possibly a baby Grindelia leaf?? A second Coryphantha sulcata seedling came up!!!!! Lace bug (Tineidae) on giant ragweed leaf. Nobody home… …except for this crab spider! My keeled treehoppers have a big family!! Soooo manyyyyyy Shackleton and Briar disagree about social distancing. A nice jumping spider. It’s on a houseplant that is outside for the summer.
Posted on June 9, 2022June 11, 202206/09/2022 last (almost) of season Strawberries! Just a few left. They peaked back a while ago. Lemon balm is blooming. This salad contains garden radishes and garden lettuce. Butterfly milkweed in backyard. Verbena halei is leaning under the ironweed. The yellow in the rainbow garden has stopped blooming but the rock garden primroses are blooming! Standing cypress is looking magnificent after several days of tons of rain.
Posted on May 31, 2022May 31, 202205/31/2022 Butterfly milkweed has finally opened! Stubby okra seedling Having walking onions as a garnish is an easy way to get a meal bloggable. All dished up. Glass gem popcorn seems very happy!