Green beans are fun, and easy
It’s pretty easy to grow green beans and black eyed peas. They’re pretty forgiving, aggressive plants that will endure some hardship, lol. If some ground slugs eat holes in […]
Category Archives: Ecology
How does your garden grow?
Collards are doing good, several ready to harvest soon and scattered plantings mean there will be some coming along for a while. Romaine is looking good and I plan a […]
Rabbit in the rabbit fence!
So, I was inside the rabbit fence pulling weeds. There’s a roll of the fencing at the corner that I can pull back to make an opening. I had seen […]
Baby rabbits….not for stew!
They are brave enough to let you get within about 5′ when they’re this little. Baby rabbit mortality rate is high; diseases, abandonment, people, lawn mowers, hawks, cars, cats; many […]
Jenny Wren came to live here!
There are two very busy little birds working out back. Jenny wrens normally arrive here around 5/1, spend some time singing and looking around, and selecting a nesting site. Shortly after that they become […]
Squirrels do not remember where they buried their nuts……………
So, I had a pot on the back porch that I hadn’t planted anything in yet. 2 or so weeks ago, a very robust volunteer weed thing started growing out […]
The old maple tree……..
I had to take down a 50 year old sliver maple last fall, cos it was diseased and there was no treatment. It was sad. But the stump supports some other forms of life. […]
Nature includes so many wonders……
Many little seeds are graceful and slow to have their seedlings appear into the world. Some are such teeny little sprouts that you can hardly see them at first. If […]
Neat things happening in the yard!
Out on the bird feeder was a gold finch, and I raced for the camera! These are around this area all the time, but not so much in town as […]
Garden Beginnings…………
So, my brother-in-law came with a ditch digging machine and dug up my garden. Dug down far enough to let roots of veggie plants have room to grow. Then my […]
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