It’s Raining, It’s Pouring… It has rained pretty much every day for three weeks. Even though South Florida is considered semi-tropical, this is still way too much rain. The usual summer pattern is a near daily downpour for 15 minutes mid-afternoon, then the sun is back and it gets humid. Humidity Brings Non-edibles, Too The […]
Rain Ruining the Garden
June 1st, 2013 2 Comments
Too Much of a Good Thing May was a wet month with 15.6 inches of rain… most of it coming in the last 10 days. It is still raining and is supposed to continue for another week. The pool and my fountain have run over repeatedly, and my garden is way too wet. Holes for […]
Tags: above ground garden · Construction of Raised Garden · Pepper Plants · rain · Tomatoes · Vegetables · yellow squash · zucchini
Mysterious Caterpillar
May 18th, 2013 4 Comments
What Kind of Caterpillar? This morning, my neighbor and gardening partner, Jacqie, was inspecting the garden. He came across a caterpillar I had never seen before. It was chewing through our patch of parsley. Black Swallowtail Caterpillar Black Swallowtail Caterpillar It was about an inch and a half long and beautiful to look at, and […]
Tags: Black Swallowtail Caterpillar · garden pests · Monarch Caterpillar · parsley · Tomato Hornworm
