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the yarrow seedlings i was planting yesterday. still not done ;-;
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The first wildflower field is tilled, cleaned, and planted. Fingers crossed.
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Hello and Good day,
Today I wanted to give some garden updates!
⭐️Things that have Sprouted ⭐️
🌱Dill. 🌱Cilantro l
🌱Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes)
🌱Melons (sugar baby) 🌱 Honeydew (Barnyard mix)
⭐️Planted & Direct seed⭐️
🌻Ginger root. 🌻Gladiolus bulbs
🌻 Swiss chard 🌻Carrots
🌻Green beans (bush variety, Blue lake) 1st planting. (4 planned in total)
I still need to plant a few more things but currently I'm held back by lack of wood, soil and the rising heat coming in. Thankfully the sun's staying out later now too, so that should be useful
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my Plans currently for those curious about the beans planting cycle. As I mentioned intentions is 4 total plantings.
When the greens beans 1st planting sprouts and is a little more grown, I'll be seeding the other side of the bed with more beans, same variety. 2nd planting, when they sprout, i intend to direct seed the space around the 1st planting with a few more bush type, with a third planting to try and draw out our homes' fresh harvest. (Plus, if the first doesn't do so well, we'll at least be able to hopefully still see some sort of harvest)
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Also thought this was pretty cool and wanted to share, as ya'all know I've been growing broccoli and letting it go to seed.
I cut, collected and set aside the branches si thought closest to having usable seed and~
Found ladybugs!
This one's fresh hatched I believe, some of the hatched ones were red, but most seemed a bright orange (like when butterflies emerge and dry out)
I've never seen the stage between the ladybug gator and the ladybug too. Figure most haven't, particularly those in urban and inner city areas.
This one was just resting next to the empty shell.
Some lady gators chilling. They look a bit spooky but at this stage they eat more aphids than in the adult stage. And as I learned from a web search they eat more than just aphids??
Apparently they eat aphids, scale insects, insect eggs, mealy bugs, leaf hoppers and cornworms among others? Which awesome if so!
Even if the great broccoli seed experiment doesn't work this year or next I'll likely leave a few up again, even if solely for the ladygators and future ladybugs and other beneficials in the garden.
We also found what we believe might be a buckmoth caterpillar? We aren't absolutly certain given everytime I've seen 'em, it's on a hollyhock and not what is their usual food sources? It is Possible a bird brought it over for a snack and went blegh too lol.
We know at least bare minimun it's a stinging type of caterpillar so we'll be cautious as we proceed with care of the Hollyhocks.
That's it for now, Thanks for stopping by :)
🌱🍃Happy Homesteading and Gardening🍃🌱
4.29.2024
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finally, everything (on the right side of my garden) is done. 12 yards of compost moved into the raised beds, spring seeds planted, wildflower patches tilled and sown, trellises constructed.
now I can spend my time paying attention to the plants rather than what they're being grown in! and no more heavy lifting on the horizon.
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🌱 New floral guide: .
West Grove, Pa.: Conard & Jones Co., 1901.
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DO get it twisted ❗️ You SHOULD rent a rototiller 🚜 and dig up your lawn 🥵 to plant NATIVE WILDFLOWERS 💐🦋🌱🌷🐝🌺🌻🐛
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my dad and grandmother have so many stories about the various Jackson & Perkins experimental roses they used to have, unfortunately I don't think the program exists anymore (publicly, at least)
It's almost beautiful to me that you could be sent a mysterious plant with a serial number and watch it grow over the years to be studied
If it does still exist and I just can't find a link please let me know
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my paper towels don't tear at the seam as well as they used to.
using double the intended amount of paper towels 70% of the time IS a form of shrinkflation, and those responsible will be punished in time
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Due to my seeds refusing to sprout, I've been forced to go to the plant nursery and purchase many seedlings. Woe is me (said in obscene southern accent whilst flinging myself dramatically to the couch)
How dare I need to grace their verdant aisles in search of the foliage I require!
Truth be told, I was an absolute goblin in the nursery. I was alone. Absolutely no social structure in place to stop me from chanting 'green things' over and over as I pet virtually every leaf in reaching distance.
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I love America. "Land of the free", where you can get heavily fined or evicted from your home for not mowing your lawn enough or for growing vegetables in your yard.
HOAs should be illegal and I am 100% serious about that.
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Microdwarf 'Orange Hat' tomatoes from baker creek in front of a squash and cucumber trellis
They were looking great until yesterday, when all my yet-to-be-planted tomatoes in pots started shriveling and wilting. I figured I should get them in the ground ASAP. They were originally meant to be gifts but I'd only given away 2 so far.
Most of them already have fruit because they're so prolific despite their size, they're supposed to end up looking like the Charlie brown Christmas tree covered in orange baubles.
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