I have a blueberry bush that is currently blossoming. It has produced fruit the last two or three years, so it must have blossomed before, but I don’t remember seeing these flowers. I’m just noticing them this year. Maybe it’s because I have had more free time to hang out in the garden lately. 🙂
There are a bunch of ladybugs in my garden right now, and who doesn’t like a ladybug? Their appearance signifies spring, they’re colorful and cute, and they eat aphids. Hopefully this group will hang around for awhile, because I’ve got a lot of aphids that need to be eaten.
I found two very flashy bugs in the garden today tapping a rapini plant. I figured they were probably pests rather than beneficial insects since they were brazenly helping themselves to plant juice, but I thought I should try to find out some more information about them before sending out an eviction notice.
I don’t remember ever seeing this insect here before, but after finding out it is partial to mustard plants, I know why it’s here now – rapini is in the mustard family.
I also found out that the harlequin beetle is a stink bug. Eew.
I took this photo last night while laying on my bed balancing a camera on my face. How lazy is that? I was shooting through a closed window that hasn’t been cleaned all winter, mulberry trees that now have leaves, and shifty clouds, so it’s not the most pristine photo of the moon. It’s not even the best shot of the night, technically; however, I keep looking at it. I like it better than the “better” shots from last night. I like the spooky effect of the leaves and clouds partially obscuring the moon. I also like how that cluster of leaves to the left of the moon is making a star shape.
Armadillo bugs, armadillidiidae, pill bugs, etc.. I lifted up a brick that was sitting on the edge of one of the garden beds and discovered dozens of little roly polys in a variety of colors hiding underneath. They didn’t like being exposed to sunlight and quickly dispersed to parts unknown.
I was doing some gardening yesterday and discovered this guy in the middle of a stack of seedling pots. I thought I had found a dead bug at first, but after a few moments in the sun it started moving around and eventually buzzed off. I wonder if it spent the winter encased in those pots?
I love me some garbanzo beans, but I had never tried growing them myself. When I found some dried beans a couple of weeks ago I decided to plant them in seed pots and stick them in the greenhouse. I was amazed when I returned from vacation this week and found the resulting seedlings already a few inches tall. I hope I will get to harvest some legumes later this year.
I’m also trying out a new photo editing app called Snapseed, hence the funky filter.
Yesterday I traveled out of town (again) to visit my cousin and her family. They have recently bought a new house and are in the process of fixing it up, so our visit somehow turned into tearing down an old fence and clearing space for a vegetable garden. It also included chalk drawings, bubble blowing and much instruction on the proper way to hold a roly poly.
Just a hat… 🙂
My latest flea market find.. I have some ideas for them.
