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 […]
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Mysterious Caterpillar
May 18th, 2013 4 Comments
Tags: Black Swallowtail Caterpillar · garden pests · Monarch Caterpillar · parsley · Tomato Hornworm
Night Blooming Cereus
May 10th, 2013 14 Comments
Gift from a Stranger Many years ago, Ken came home from a bike ride with a hunk of cactus strapped to his bike. Mother Plant Ken rides at night in the summer, because it is cooler. During one of his night rides, he noticed a huge cactus covered with 6-inch wide, fragrant, white flowers. Another […]
Tags: cactus · Night-blooming Cereus · Sphinx Moth · Tomato Hornworm
Evolving Blog – Gardening and a Whole Lot More
November 26th, 2012 No Comments
The Beginning Back in January of 2009, my son, Matt, decided to make an above ground, or raised, garden. First Raised Garden He built it, filled it with dirt, planted all sorts of veggies and aimed a 24-hour webcam at the box. Then, he began to write about it on this blog called ‘watch my […]
Tags: Construction of Raised Garden · dogs · flowers · garden pests · Green Market · Raised Garden · redbud tree · Tomato Hornworm · trees