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 […]
Category Archives: Garden/Yard
More about bamboo
These are new bamboo shoots, about a month old, and already over 10′ tall. They will continue to grow but not as fast as at first, and will end up […]
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 […]
Time for bamboo to send new shoots up
Every spring after the ground has warmed up and there’s been a few good rains, the bamboo begins to shoot up from the ground. It is a highly invasive plant […]
Collards, up close and personal
Now’s when the things growing inside the rabbit fence start to look more interesting……..interesting enough to make a rabbit make a plan! Let’s see what happens now……..and how my rabbit fence really works.
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