Late Spring
Squash beetle (Epilachna borealis) New to me, seeing this in town as well as at my patch.
Also, finding the regular squash bugs, catch and squish.
Lambsquarter and Florida stachys tubers. I'm getting a lot of lambsquarter tips, but due to the early spring heat and drought, the stachys tubers are a good bit of work to locate.
Mullien in the garden.
A caged paw paw, started from seed last Spring, set out last Autumn.
More paw paw seedlings.
Last year, I planted some pawpaw seed without stratification, as well as some where I pierced the seed coat first. The ones that were pierced came up right away and I set out in the Autumn. The ones w/o stratification? Took an extra year to come up.
Butterfly weed.
I put up a fence to prevent the deer from browsing it. Hoping for some seeds.
Buckeye butterfly laying eggs on bracted plantain (Plantago aristata).
Climbing beans (trail of tears) and black-eyed susans (rudbeckia hirta)
Scuppernong grape seedlings.
Armadillo in a trap, 10 so far this Spring.
posted by Gardens-In-The-Sand at
9:44 AM
2 Comments:
What do you do with the armadillos?
I have one pawpaw on my trees. We had a really bad late freeze. I have one apple, as well. I had some peach blossoms, but the bees and bugs didn’t show up until much later.
Shoot and bury. Armadillo are invasive animals, they weren't even in the States until Europeans started building bridges across rivers and purposely carrying them out of their native areas.
I have multiple pawpaws on the trees, late frost here too, saw frozen blooms on pawpaw trees in town.
Included pics of pears on recent blog post.
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