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Comments (40)Personally I love all aspects of gardening. From adding compost to the soil - planting - weeding - watering - harvesting and photographing it's all a relaxing pleasure. I even enjoy mowing the lawn. If there's one downside to all this it's because I live sixty miles outside of Las Vegas NV and while getting the soil ready for fall planting is necessary, it's a little tough right now. The reason is that the temperature here today is a cool 116 degrees....See MoreFavorite Seed Companies (other than Veggies)
Comments (15)I am kind of a haphazard gardener, to be honest. I just plant what appeals to the butterflies, bees, moths, and other beneficials. Of course, along with all of those we do get the ones that are not so beneficial as well. Mother Nature has a way of balancing things out, though. In planting things that attracted all of these "pets", I attracted many others that I didn't plan on, but were welcome anyway, like the beautiful sphinx moths, and the hummingbirds. I never had put a hummer feeder out until the hummers began to show up to nectar on many of the same flowers and shrubs that attract the butterflies, like the passion flowers, Verbena bonariensis, Pentas, Lantana, Cypress Vine, Mexican Sunflowers, and many that are considered tropical here and only grow one season in pots. A couple of years ago I began to get interested in growing natives, because they attract a lot of birds, butterflies, bees, and other beneficials, and many are host plants for butterflies (they lay eggs on specific plants). Monarchs will only use milkweeds, Black Swallowtails only use parsley, fennel, Rue, and other apiaceae family members. Our native passion vine is host to the Gulf Fritillary, as well as a few other passion vines. Aristolochias (pipevines) that are natives are utilized by the Pipevine Swallowtail. Three of these are native to Oklahoma. Native asters host Pearl Crescents. Native sennas host Cloudless Sulphurs and Sleepy Oranges. Native False Nettle hosts the Red Admirals and Question Marks (so does stinging nettle, but False Nettle does not have the stinging hairs). Wild Indigo (Baptisias) host the Wild Indigo Duskywing. Plantago hosts Buckeyes. Verbesina encelioides (Golden Crownbeard) hosts Bordered Patches. Coneflowers (Echinaceas) host Silvery Checkerspots. Goatweed (Crotons - native not the decorative houseplant) host the Goatweed Leafwings; Tulip Trees host Tiger Swallowtails along with a host of other trees, including Wild Black Cherry. Sassafras and Spicebush host the Spicebush Swallowtail. Wild violets and Passiflora incarnata (natives) host the Variegated Fritillary (not a true frit, but rather a longwing). Daturas (the native and others) host the Tobacco and Tomato hornworms. Virginia Creeper host many, many moths like the beautiful 8-spotted forester and lots of sphinx. Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) hosts the beautiful silk moth, Cecropia. Native honeysuckle and viburnum host the Snowberry Clearwing sphinx moth (resembles a large bumblebee). Hackberry and Elm trees host Question Marks and Hackberry hosts the Hackberry and Tawny Emperors. Willow hosts Red Spotted Purples and Mourning Cloaks. So you can see the list is endless almost. I get lots of ladybugs, green lacewings, and praying mantids. This is all good, but they do eat their share of butterfly/moth eggs and caterpillars. Such is life in the garden, tho. I find lots of insect activity on all the plants I mentioned. Most natives are loaded with nectar because it hasn't been bred out of the plant in the breeding process. For instance, you might find some activity on the old species roses, but you don't on cultivars. They just don't produce nectar. So the more hybrids that have been made up the line, the less nectar the flowers produce. Natives are wonderful. They have proven they can survive almost any adverse condition or event. Some are quite beautiful, too, but their purpose is often a bit more esoteric than appealing to the eye. Also, butterflies generally like flat top or single flowers because they provide a better landing pad for them. All of those new doubles cultivars make it almost impossible to obtain nectar so I try to stick to these. Kenna has survived the scars of being traumatized by the pit bull exceptionally well. She still loves dogs, cats, and, of course, butterflies, and hasn't displayed any inordinative fear of them. It probably helped that both her grandfather and I both love animals and have them at home. In fact, her GF has 3 Rottweilers that are watch dogs. They have grown up with her, though, and she doesn't hesitate to interact with them at all. I, on the other hand, am a bit more cautious cuz I am not around them much. Susan...See MoreNEW: Seed To Seed Gardens 1st Annual Veggie-Swap
Comments (9)I alphabetized your tomato's list and fixed some spelling. I can do your whole list if you like but you can add in your numbers..it makes looking for and trading easier :) You have some varieties I never heard of like Apielson. I'd love to hear more on your garden and see pictures. Please read my list and hopefully we can trade. I also am starting a community garden with over 100 varieties...for starter seed I can gladly save and return at harvest....we are..... well, here's the list followed by the First Fruits blurb. Apielson Orange Aunt RubyÂs German Green Aunt RubyÂs German Grape Australian Heart Beefsteak Big Rainbow Black From Tulsa Black Pear Black Zebra Cherokee Chocolate Elberta Peach Garden Peach Golden Jubilee Green Giant Green Zebra Hazle Mae Hess Japanese Black Triffle Kellogg's Breakfast Manyel Mashinka Pink Matt's Wild Cherry Mr. Stripey Nyagous Old Ivory Egg Ox Heart Persimmon Pineapple Pink Brandywine Principe Bourghese Red Zebra Silvery Fir Tree Striped Roman Super Snow White Thai Pink Egg Tigerovy White Queen Yellow Brandywine Yellow Pear Zapotec First Fruits Harvest Garden 4644 M-33 Hwy. Onaway, MI 49765 While there are many needs in other countries and hungry everywhere, the goals of First Fruits are to: *Feed the local community with organically grown, open pollinated, local vegetables. To be distributed through the FOOD Pantry currently established on site. *Provide a place for those who wish to grow their own produce and provide seed, etc. *Open pollinated seeds will be saved and used/given away. No hybrids will be used. This establishes a fresh Seed Bank as well. Current and future goals are: raised-bed gardens, grains, water supply, storage and greenhouse. We are asking for a tax deductible donation to start "seed" money for such a project. Should such a project fail, monies would be donated to the local food pantry and people would still be fed. Projected Budget- $500 establishes the garden plot including seed. $3600 establishes a greenhouse and storage area. Overall projected budget of operation to start is $4100. After the initial investment maintenance follows and the budget reduces. Thank you for helping Project Manager, Earl Bassett...See MoreUPDATE: Seed to Seed Gardens 1st Annual Veggie swap
Comments (1)Since the date on this is Oct 30, I am going to let this post slide down now.Lime...See MoreRelated Professionals
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