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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Tomato Hornworm (Parasitized edition)
Some days you know just aren’t gonna go your way…if you’re a tomato hornworm, and you wake up one morning all bedazzled with little white decorations, chances are, the day will not end well. These little adornments will hatch and … Continue reading
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Tagged backyard, biological controls, braconid, braconid wasp, bugs, caterpillars, farming, flower gardening, garden, garden pests, gardening, gardening tips, heirloom tomato, Kentucky, Ohio River Valley, organic gardening, tomato, Tomato Hornworm, vegetable garden, wasp
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Cherry Blossoms
For a few days every spring, our house is at the center of a Venn Diagram of daffodils, hyacinths, crocus, a few early tulips, and our beautiful little weeping cherry–floral fireworks exploding in our yard. The cherry blossoms are especially … Continue reading
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Tagged cherry, cherry tree, crocus, daffodil, flower garden, garden, gardening, hyacinth, spring, tulip, venn diagram
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Bicycle Joy
We tugged our bicycles out of the garage, pumped up the tires, greased the chains and took ’em for a spin on a lovely spring day not long ago. The sun was shining down from a sky as blue as … Continue reading
Heralds of Spring
Crocus, hyacinth, and jonquil are springing up all around us, letting us know, with what we hope is certainty, that the long winter has receded. The daylight hours are beginning to stretch, giving us a few more minutes outside in … Continue reading
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Tagged crocus, daffodil, daffodils, flower garden, flowers, garden, gardening, hyacinth, jonquil, jonquils, narcissus, spring
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