[Warning! this post contains adult content!] I spent most of Saturday and part of Sunday weeding the rock garden beds in the backyard, and I couldn’t help but notice something weird. There were lots of boxelder bugs out and about– but that’s pretty typical here. The weird part is that 9 out of 10 of [...]
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Boxelder Bugs in the Spring
Posted in Home, tagged gardens, science on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
And the Cactus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flowers, gardens, Home on April 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My last post about anticipation left out one plant. This little cactus has been with us for about a year now and has put up with our move, lack of sun, too much sun, and even being left out in the snow. When we first bought it at the garden center, it had a blossom [...]
Anticipation
Posted in Home, tagged flowers, gardens on April 14, 2012 | 5 Comments »
It’s spring– and that means lots of things are about to happen. I already posted photos of flowers that have bloomed in my yard, but now I’m seeing even more surprises as other kinds begin to bloom. The numerous irises I was sure wouldn’t produce flowers, since they probably haven’t been separated or transplanted for [...]
Traces
Posted in Home, tagged gardens on January 29, 2012 | 4 Comments »
As we prepare to move this weekend, Bo has been busily moving the soil and planter beds so that we can continue to use them at the new house. The new place is on a hillside, and the backyard looks rather different.We’ll grow flowers, herbs, and veggies along the terraced areas. Yes, the playset comes [...]
Harvest
Posted in Home, tagged food, gardens on October 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The high temperature today is supposed to be 43 degrees fahrenheit, and the constant morning rain turned to snow at around 11:00. When the snow stopped falling a few hours later, I suited up in my long underwear and rain outerwear and coaxed Joda out for a walk. Then I picked as many fruits of [...]
How does your garden grow?
Posted in Home, tagged gardens on October 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Now that Bo is out of town, I can pick the carrots from the garden with wild abandon. Look at these two from this morning: The one on the left apparently couldn’t make up its mind about how many carrots it actually was going to be. And the one on the right had wrapped itself [...]
Jewel Spider
Posted in Home, Uncategorized, tagged gardens, wildlife on September 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Our ten-foot-tall tomato plant has become host to a skilled predator. I first noticed her beautiful web earlier this week after my morning run. She herself is quite impressive. My camera isn’t really up to this kind of photography, but she’s an orb weaver and has the characteristic swollen abdomen. Hers is almost the diameter [...]
Oops. Or, the perils of inattention
Posted in Home, tagged food, gardens on August 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As you can see, Joda is demonstrating what happens when you don’t search your zucchini patch closely enough. I knew on Thursday evening that there should be one ready for picking, but I couldn’t find it and assumed that Bo must have beaten me to it. It stayed on the vine until Friday, and got [...]
Growing Things
Posted in Home, tagged gardens on July 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We’ve had a lot of rain this week. Not only did it rain every day except yesterday, but it often rained more than once a day and for quite a while each time. And, the raindrops were larger than usual (as a science librarian, I of course make sure that all my claims are verified [...]
Squash blossoms
Posted in Home, Uncategorized, tagged gardens on July 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I awoke this morning to a surprise– the biggest, widest-open squash blossoms I have ever seen. I am always happy to see the plants putting out their flowers, but usually they are shriveled and closed. In the cool of the morning, they were glorious! I have thought about cooking some blossoms, but I don’t think [...]
