Garden Season Winding Down

Gosh, this kitchen garden writing thing really comes to a screeching halt when there’s not much happening in the garden, doesn’t it? With that and the heat, humidity and constant wet, I’m all sodden and useless. I did take some pictures last night for my OLS dinner and from my small harvest, which I’ll post [...]

Of Bumblebees and One Local Summer-week 8

On Saturday morning, I went out to check on the Pattypan plants that are limping along in the lasagna bed and there were five huge open blossoms…each with a sleeping bumble bee in it. Actually, one blossom had TWO sleeping bumblebees. At first I thought, holy mackerel, these plants are poisonous and are killing the [...]

Please Help Me Identify This Bug

These little buggers are all over my giant parsley plant and my cucumbers. They seem to be staying to the stems. I have no idea if they are pest or predator and can’t find any other photos of them online. Believe me, I searched every bug index I could find. The little cottony fluffs sticking [...]

The Garden Becoming a Closed System

A few happenings of note in the garden. Words will have to suffice, because I am not going out there into the furnace again with a camera. I did my time with hose in hand. I fed and watered the chickens. Watered the parched carrots. Picked lettuce for a big salad (the dressing of which [...]

Total Dehydration Averted

Phew, it rained. Torrential for a good half hour, and then a light, steady rain for another hour. When I got home, I pulled back some of the mulch in the garden and felt the soil, plenty wet around the roots, but farther out from the plants, still dry. I should pick up a rain [...]

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