Paula noticed more spider mites on the indoor peppers so we did garlic spray on them. I’ve also recently added a sprinkle more fertilizer to the pots since the leaves are yellowing. Hopefully this helps.Then we decided to garlic spray the remaining tomato plant. Its fruit still seems to be growing but all the leaves on top are just drying up, even with more consistent watering. However, it’s growing new stems from the base. Not sure what the deal is.In the backyard, Viola bicolor have flower buds.A ground bee or wasp has a nice burrow near the potential greeneyes seedlings.
So, even with covering, 12° F was too cold for the baby wheat. All wilted and dead. Oh well. It made it through 15 before, so it may have just been for too long, or finally past a threshold.
We covered the young mizuna, lettuce, wheat, and cabbage with leaves and towels. Now frozen on.Rain has already frozen after it fell. No glaze ice at least!
Chijimisai greens were a free seed packet in an order, and despite being a Brassica the label said not frost hardy. So I’m trying to grow them in a decorative planter with some other friends.
Leaves to insulate the baby bok choyLeaves to insulate the baby lettuceThe screen (made to keep rabbits out) holds the leaves in, in case there is wind.Apparently one should blanch small round fruit before attempting to make raisins. Regular ground cherries.A chironomid fly adult chilling near garage door.Some sort of cutworm, on collard greens, the previous night. I threw it out in yard where hopefully the mockingbird will find it.I touched another dog!The Chef successfully made honey mead! We tried it. Was good. He says it needs to age now.Crabapple jelly central.Hanging out in his haunted mansion.
Bisbee cowpeas flowering moreI liked the contrast on this one.“Stubby” variety of okra.An okra flower with a little sweat bee flying by!This is the first okra flower I’ve seen in person here since they seem to keep banker’s hours.A little green-striped cushaw squash!Leaf of the squash is looking a bit rough.Found another Madhu Ras melon! This one is bigger.Salvia greggii “Diane” purple cultivar has bloomed! Now only waiting on the orange part of rainbow garden to bloom.Whoa. I did not realize this cushaw squash was here!A male Sachem on a Peruvian ground cherry. There is a flower in the background so I hope it’ll start producing soon.Two immature fruits on Amish Paste tomato.I think this is one of my stratification butterfly milkweed that I planted directly! Very excited!A doodlebug (also known as an ant lion) trap waiting for some little critter to walk by! I feel very good about the predators in the garden right now, keeping plant-eaters in check, as I also saw a little brown snake slither away. We had a Dekay’s Brown Snake last year so it was probably that. May it be fat and happy on earwigs!One of the rosemary bushes is blooming!
