When I was checking on an earlier post to make sure I had fixed a typo, I noticed the wrong town was listed from the locator function we can use on our posts. So I started checking others, and was dismayed to find it wasn’t a one off. Continue reading “Wait…I don’t live there.”
Month: July 2018
Indoor pot followup – 23rd July 2018
The two seedlings have grown a bit more, and we’re thinking to give them a few more days before we transplant them. It might be faulty thinking, but after the yard party yesterday, I’d rather give them a bit more time to grow indoors so they don’t become victims of the critters. Continue reading “Indoor pot followup – 23rd July 2018”
Scarlet Runner Beans and Hummingbirds
I first learned about scarlet runner pole beans (Phaseolus coccineus) in The 2 Hour Garden book by Roger Grounds. I honestly did not research them much beyond his mention, and rather impulsively fit them into our $20 seed budget instead of kidney beans. Back then, I knew very little other than they were a pole bean with at least 6′ vines (I’ve seen up to 15′ listed), and should be one of the first things in our kitchen garden once they arrived. I read in that book that apparently most Americans don’t like the beans, while others consider them a gourmet legume. (Apparently the shell is a bit tough for some, and at least one site recommended cutting the pod before serving, other sites say forget the pod and shell the beans.) Continue reading “Scarlet Runner Beans and Hummingbirds”
July 22, 2018–Office Window View
two milkweed tussock larvae
Note to future me #4
Don’t forget to actually utilize the data you’ve collected. Look over it from time to time, especially if you are doing something similar to what you’ve recorded before. (Use that search function on this site too for when you didn’t record things in the plantings list that are relevant to whatever you need to know. It’s easy to forget it’s there some days.)
You’ll be less impatient if you remember maybe you haven’t waited long enough for results because our memory isn’t always as good as we want it to be.
Just when I had almost given up…
…I noticed something had changed while we were failing to photograph the monarch egg and I stepped into the kitchen for some reason I can’t recall now. I happened to glance over at the pot on the counter, and was five years old all over again.
One, two! Two Monarch eggs! Ah, ah, ah!
Not sure how many folks reading this remember the Count from Sesame Street, but the title above is what came to mind when I found the eggs today. Continue reading “One, two! Two Monarch eggs! Ah, ah, ah!”
The verdict is in…
I stopped to pick some berries for my walk to the library today. My neighbor happened to be outside. I showed her the berries I’ve been trying to ID, and she thought they were likely boysenberries given what had been here prior. I offered one to her to taste, and she confirmed her thinking. Continue reading “The verdict is in…”