It's autumn...
Scattered frost this morning... Had ghost pepper seedlings just coming up in a pot got frost burnt...
And still, sun came out, temp improved and the butterflies came out in force!
Labels: berries, butterflies, camellia
Scattered frost this morning... Had ghost pepper seedlings just coming up in a pot got frost burnt...
And still, sun came out, temp improved and the butterflies came out in force!
Labels: berries, butterflies, camellia
Not happening...
Hard to pick watermelons when the cats are eating them before they ripen...
And then the deer eat all the leaves off the vines...
Kinda surprising that I'm still having trouble (with deer), considering the amount of work I've put into fencing...
Labels: watermelons
Pawpaws have dropped!
After they've dropped, they can be eaten... I prefer to peel first, but it isn't really necessary....
Or is it? I've read that the peel & seed contains toxins... I've also read that toxicity may be mostly myth.
This is actually an easier fix than all the fencing I've been doing over the last 2 months, where I'm just adding more wire above existing, and when they jump in, are apparently clearing existing 6 foot wire with no trouble...
Not being able to tell where they come in is a difficult fix... so much wire to add more to...
No problem...
Labels: fence
Mature dwarf paw paw 'tree'... Height waist high to chest high.
Loaded with fruit this year... But tiny!
Fruit on regular tree is still hard...
Labels: gopher tortoise, pawpaw
The rains stopped... the weather turned hot...
Not a surprise, the rains this spring were the unusual weather...
With the end of the rain, and the near constant heat, came the fun of portaging water from the rain barrels and attempting to keep a few plants going...
And... the deer fence started getting tested as the desperate critters wanted something to eat that wasn't crunchy...
Here's some pics from before everything turned crunchy...
Labels: 4 o'clock, butterflies, deer, echinacea, mulberry trees, pear tree, posts, rudbeckia, Summer heat
Monarch on a kale leaf... That's not where the milkweeds are!
(Like these matelea... milk weed vine)
Knockout roses, grown from cuttings...
Labels: butterflies