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Amaranthus cruentus 'Red Spike' Review

Amaranthus cruentus ‘Red Spike’ on 9-3-24, #1021-1. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well! Temperatures are definitely getting cooler. The sweet corn and green beans have been harvested with great results. The ‘Incredible’ sweet corn produced 200 ears and the ‘Peaches and Cream’ produced 141 ears. Most of them made it to the freezer… The last planting of ‘Provider’ green beans was…

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Meeting The Hummers...

Archilochus colubris (Ruby-Throated Hummingbird) on 8-30-24, #1019-3. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. I bought a new hummingbird feeder this spring with perches to see if I could take a few good photos. Well, oddly, they didn’t seem to feed during the summer because the nectar level was always the same. Obviously, it would sour and have to be replaced. Once I filled the jar half…

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8-6-24: First Sweet Corn Harvest Of 2024

Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well! August 7 was an exciting day with it being the first sweet corn harvest. Waiting for this day can drive one nuts! The anticipation around growing sweet corn can be mentally and physically challenging. Planting sweet corn seed and waiting for several days to see how well it comes up is the first thing, Then waiting to be able to till between the…

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Sitting on Saturday: A Date With The Green Beans

Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. It’s been another hot week! Yesterday wasn’t so bad and there was a nice breeze. As I am writing this post it is 82° F but it is supposed to get up to 90. We did have rain, though this past week. I have been eating lunch at the senior center, and one day one of the ladies across from me looked out the window and said it was raining. I turned around…

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Garden Update: 7-26-24

Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. I just wanted to write a quick post about how the garden is coming along. The Sweet Corn ‘Incredible’ is looking great!   The pollination is coming along really well and the honeybees are hard at work collecting pollen.   I saw one collecting pollen, or trying to, where it has collected where the leaves come from the stalk… Those flying around…

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Commelina communis var. ludens (Asiatic Dayflower)

Commelina communis var. ludens (Asiatic Dayflower) on 7-25-24, #1010-1. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. As I started this post at 10:48 AM, it is a sunny Thursday morning at 82° F. It is supposed to get up to 90… I thought I would highlight the Commelina communis var. ludens (Asiatic Dayflower) that are growing in the north bed in this post. It has been a great year for the…

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Wordless Wednesday: Proxys punctulatus (Black Stink Bug)

Proxys punctulatus (Black Stink Bug) on 7-24-24, #1009-6.

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Four In A Row...

Lathyrus latifolius (Everlasting/Wild Sweet Peas) on 7-26-22, #901-26. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. I received a notification from WordPress saying I posted 3 days in a row… Hmmm… I couldn’t break very well stop now when I am on a roll! I couldn’t think of anything to write about, so I thought I would just add a photo of something that has caught my attention for the past…

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Silent Sunday: Billbergia nutans (Queen's Tears)

Billbergia nutans (Queen’s Tears) on 7-21-24, #1008-1.   Billbergia nutans (Queen’s Tears) on 7-21-24, #1008-1.

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Garden Update 7-19-24

2024 Garden from the southwest corner. Hello everyone! Back again so soon. 🙂 I hope this post finds you doing well. I thought it was time I made a post about the garden. It has been a weird summer because it wouldn’t stop raining. I’m certainly not going to complain about the rain compared to the heat and drought last summer. It just takes longer to keep the grass and weeds out of the rows, but…

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Farewell To An Old Friend...

My  Amorphophallus after I brought them home on 7-1-17, #353-1. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. It has took me a week to write this post because I kept taking more photos… Tragedy has struck… The above photo is of the two Amorphophallus I brought home from Wagler’s Greenhouse on July 7 in 2017. I picked this pot because not only were there two, but there was also an Oxalis…

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New Plants Update

Aegopodium podagraria (Snow In The Mountain/Goutweed) on 7-5-24, #1000-1. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. I thought I would write a post about the new plants I brought home in 2024. Some of the new plants complained because I didn’t write a new post when I brought them home, so this is an apology to them. A few are grouping together and are still snubbing me. GEEZ! In…

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HAPPY FORTH OF JULY!

Ferocactus hamatacanthus (Turk’s Head). Helly everyone! Happy Fourth of July! The festivities at the park were canceled about a week ago because rain was in the forecast. Indeed, it was in the forecast right up until last night. I checked the weather one last time before I went to bed last night and a storm was on the way. It came with heavy rain for a few minutes then I went to sleep. I woke…

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New Plants for 2024 (So Far)...

New Hosta on 5-6-24. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. We had more rain during the night… Last Monday I went to the Green Street Market in Clinton (Missouri) to get a few garden seed. Well, it didn’t stop there… I browsed their plants and my feet took me to there selection of Hosta. Last year I moved the Hosta and Heuchera to the bed along the north side of the house because of the…

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5-3-24: Second Wildflower Walk of 2024...

Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well and enjoying your spring. I apologize for this post being somewhat late. I don’t really have a good reason for being late, but I have been fairly busy doing other things.  During the winter I watched more movies after dinner rather than spending more time on this site once updates were made. Then spring came and I was still stuck in slow motion. I…

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3-31-24: First Wildflower Walk of 2024...

Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. We finally had a good soaking! Lighting, thunder, and lots of rain! The rain gauge said 1 3/4″ in the end. I went Moral mushroom hunting on Saturday and found around 20, but most of them were on the small side so I left them behind. I found a few that were big enough to fill a 9″ skillet. Then on Sunday, I went to my friend Kevin’s secluded woods…

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The Crocus Are Blooming!

Crocus sp. near the southeast corner of the foundation on 2-21-24. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. February is coming to a close and I always wondered why the shortest month of the year seems to last so long. Tuesday, I was in town and a friend said his Crocus were starting to come up, so I checked the plants in the “other yard” to see what they were doing. As usual, the Crocus…