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Member since: Jan 10 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 36 | Organic gardener
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01 Jun 2011
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Oops! Leave it to me and my inquisitive botanical mind...
Ludwigia grandiflora or peruviana Growing34°C / 93°FLast fall I discovered an interesting wetland plant in a nearby county, collected, and propagated seedlings from it. It was on a fairly sizable island in the middle of a river and I could only locate two of these plants that I’ve never seen before so I figured it was fairly rare. It is, um,...
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30 May 2011
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Help!--What is this slimy raisin eating my tomatillos?
Tomatillo Verde Under Attack33°C / 92°FWoke up this morning to find my two Tomatillo Verdes under attack by these bugs. They are all about the size of raisins, look to have heads and antennae, and seem to be skeletonizing and devouring the leaves, perhaps by sucking on them as they wither afterwards. In all my years of gardening, I...
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29 May 2011
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Pliny was right, water delivery, and tomatoes in isolation
Coleus Black Dragon Growing, Canna Low Growing Durban Growing, Morning Glory Heavenly Blue Budding, and Bac...34°C / 93°FThe most exciting news this week I can report is Pliny the Elder was right: eating raw onion does cure insomnia. I happened to discover this quite accidentally by ingesting some raw red onion during a couple dinners in a row and noticing the effect, then keeping it going. I haven’t slept th...
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21 May 2011
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The promise of tomatoes and a lovable pile of fluff
Chicken Coop Two garden , Eggplant India Paint Flowering, Tomato Speckled Siberian Setting Fruit, Tomato Sk...33°C / 92°FThis morning the flowers on one of the two India Paint Eggplants opened, and the tomatoes on the Skorospelka (a long time favorite) and Speckled Siberian (first grown last year) are bulking up. There are numerous little fruits on most of the rest of the tomatoes. Oddly, this may turn out to be ou...
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14 May 2011Chicken Coop Two garden , Backyard garden , Short Grass Prairie garden , Morning Glory Picotee Blue Bloomin...
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28°C / 82°FAfter the rain, the Prairie Rain Lily, Cooperia pedunculata. They are everywhere. The Short Grass Prairie which has been devoid of its normal Spring beauty, is now resplendent with them! Today I was surprised to see one of the morning glories still in a 3" pot blooming with a full size flowe...
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12 May 2011
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My first orchid, a third water tank, and RAIN!!!
Orchid Phalaenopsis Samba ‘U.Bix Blooming31°C / 88°FI can’t believe how my emotions have become so entangled with the lack of water. But things began looking up this week. I treated myself to this little orchid left over from Mother’s Day at a big box store, my first ever! It’s thankfully been identified as Phalaenopsis Samba ‘U....
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03 May 2011
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A mystery Salvia, some rain, and more hummingbirds
Backyard garden and Salvia Unknown blue BloomingSunny 13°C / 55°FWilson and Topaz stare at the pot of wheat grass I started for them. It is the only thing that would pass for green grass for miles. It’s been so long since any of us have seen it we don’t readily recognize it. Last fall Starley the terrier and I collected a few seeds off a plant grow...
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30 Apr 2011
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Tomato skirts and fluffy chicks
Backyard garden and Chicken Coop Two garden15°C / 59°FHappy Beltane everyone! We are enjoying the day. (I even took time to participate in Sunday Stills, something I used to regularly do, artistically photographing the theme of rust today). This afternoon a cool front (!) came through lowering our high 80’s temperature down to 59 degrees. I do...
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28 Apr 2011
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Hummingbirds, caterpillars, chickadees (and a fire update of course)
29°C / 84°FTrying to focus on the beautiful things still happening here…it’s not all doom and gloom. We are going through two gallons of sugar water a day with all the hummingbirds. If you have followed my blogs for a while you will know that wild animals generally aren’t afraid of me, whi...
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26 Apr 2011
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19°C / 67°FWe had a record high of 104 degrees yesterday, unbelievable. Combined with the fires and drought this is not a good time to be experiencing hot flashes! Other than watching these things burn via satellite on the Internet, there’s not much real-time information available. A new fire started ...
