The Last of the Harvest I mentioned that the garden is finished for the season, so, in the next few days, everything will be pulled up and the boxes covered to bake in the sun until October. However, there was one last crop of carrots to pull first. Baby Carrots Each year, I ask grandson […]
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Black Swallowtail Butterfly
July 21st, 2013 No Comments
Caterpillar Issues If you remember, I wrote about what I thought were Monarch caterpillars eating my parsley. Black Swallowtail Caterpillar It turned out that they were Black Swallowtail caterpillars. They look very much like Monarchs… same size and color, but the striping is slightly different. Cocoon Shortly after I discovered the caterpillars, I found a chrysalis […]
Tags: above ground garden · Black Swallowtail Butterfly · Black Swallowtail Caterpillar · garden pests · parsley
Yay! Cantaloupe
June 23rd, 2013 2 Comments
An Afterthought Back in April, after all the rest of the garden had been planted, neighbor, Jacqie (my partner in gardening) planted one more section. On a whim, he bought three kinds of watermelon and one cantaloupe plant and put them directly into bags of garden soil. Melons Planted in Bagged Soil Ground Cover The […]
Tags: cantaloupe · watermelon
