flora and fauna

I present to you: things in the garden, from the past two weeks…

visitors in the carrots

Swallowtail caterpillars continue munching away on our carrot tops: Also, exactly pne of our carrots is going to seeding, proving the relation to Queen Anne’s Lace:

fall redo, plus stuff

To all the brassicae pests nibbling up our fall bed, I offer up to you a big, giant “F-U”! Bugs have picked clean my first attempt of a fall garden. So I am stepping it up: The potatoes are still a midsummer experiment, but the ones that sprouted are still growing: These native wildflowers (of […]

little visitor

I sowed three different parsley patches this year, mostly for swallowtail caterpillars. I mean, we might use parsley once or twice through the summer, and the roots are pretty tasty in the fall… but the patches are for them. So, today I find this guy munching away in our garden. On my freakin’ dill. LOL Okay, […]