straw foxglove
Bee (Species Anthidium manicatum – Wool Carder Bee, female) enjoying foxglove (Digitalis lutea).
orange lily
The tiger lily (lilium, Asiatic) opened it blossoms for the first time this morning. They are shiny and new looking. Amazing how they were closed buds just yesterday, now this morning beautiful blooms.
tomato flowers
Tomatoes are blooming! I found a website that says “It takes about 30 days from the time the tomatoes bloom until fruit is full-sized and ready to start ripening”. http://www.oznet.k-state.edu/hfrr/hnewslet/2002/ksht0222.htm I’ll be looking for fruit on July 20! Nothing like fresh tomoatoes. These blossums are my Supersonics. The Early Girls are in bloom, too. Solanum lycopersicum
nesting birds
Here are photos of the baby birds in my parents’ yard. The top two pictures are the four baby catbirds. Lower picture is the three baby robins.
another bird update
News on the nesting birds at my parents house: the chickadees and wrens have fledged. Robins and catbird are feeding their young big juicy worms and other bugs. I hear they bring back enormous mouthfuls of food and share it among all of the young. Mother Robin has become white and fluffy on her underside and seems to sit on the nest most of the time. It appears that it is Dad doing the feeding. Same with the catbirds. The Mrs is on the nest most of the time, even…
peony flowers
1 Comment
Peony flowers! This plant was in the yard when we bought our house 15 years ago. A scrawny little plant, I tried all that time to get it to bloom. For years, I kept re-planting it shallower, fertilizing. Making sure it had lots of sun. It expanded into a big mound of green leaves. Sometimes it would get a tiny bud, that wouldn’t open. I threatened often to turn it to compost. Finally last year it had one blossum, this year, two. These past two years I remove alot of…
view from above
Our garden birds. We used to get more types, but now its pretty much just sparrows. I suppose its because I don’t feed them anymore.
what flower are you?
I am a Violet What Flower Are You? If you click on the link under the violet, you’ll end up at a blog with a silly quiz that you can take to find out what kind of flower you are. It says that I am a violet.
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy
weeks and counting until my last spring frost
My garden this week
Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Egyptian walking onions!
