Really, I feel like that is what our garden has wanted to say to us as of recently. An Evening Visitor. Papilio polyxenes. Also called Black Swallowtail Butterfly. I feel as if the plants have been conspiring with each other, talking to one another, late at night, to try to plan some surprises for us. Winter Crookneck. One of many female flowers Marina di Chioggia And last night we just
This weekend I decided to bite the bullet and tear out our lovely, beautiful lone tomatillo plant. If you remember right I posted earlier that I made the rookie mistake of only planting one tomatillo plant. You know, the old saying, it takes two to tango? Well that applies here. Tomatillo plants are self infertile which means they need two plants to produce fruit. Since I only planted one plant the tomatillo was
Well we finally did it. We opened the potato bin so see if we had anything there. And this was the result. What an utter disappointment. No blues, no reds, no any special potatoes. Hardly anything at all. Depressing. Still though, I told Edward that “hey this was our second time growing potatoes, our first time growing them THIS way so we should be happy with WHATEVER we get!
So of course part of the reason I keep this blog in the first place is to simply keep track of what I have done wrong, what I have done right, successes, failures, and of course also my own opinion on each plant. This way I know which varieties NOT to grow the next year, which pests I need to be aware of and how to deal with those pests.
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