What does your garden look like ... Today?

[Meadowlark]

Zinnias waiting on Marigolds to Bloom

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Prairie smoke

Eastern red columbine

Yellow star grass

Wild geranium

 

[Meadowlark]

It isn't my garden...it's one of my hay fields. Never fertilized, never grazed, cut and baled once a year and now with acres and acres of what looks like Black-eyed Susan.

The irony of Nature is that I decided last winter I needed to get black-eyed susans going in my new pollinator garden. So, I bought seeds, made a special container, nurtured the seedlings and so far...no blooms. Nature on its own has provided acres and acres of what looks like black-eyed Susans.

I suspect that is where all the Butterflys are hanging out now rather than in my pollinator garden .

 

[JBtheExplorer]

It isn't my garden...it's one of my hay fields. Never fertilized, never grazed, cut and baled once a year and now with acres and acres of what looks like Black-eyed Susan.

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The irony of Nature is that I decided last winter I needed to get black-eyed susans going in my new pollinator garden. So, I bought seeds, made a special container, nurtured the seedlings and so far...no blooms. Nature on its own has provided acres and acres of what looks like black-eyed Susans.

I suspect that is where all the Butterflys are hanging out now rather than in my pollinator garden .

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Jealous of your land! I'd turn it into a prairie and just endlessly walk circles around it.

 

[Meadowlark]

Jealous of your land! I'd turn it into a prairie and just endlessly walk circles around it.

Thanks...but it is naturally timber growing land, and Nature would fight like Hell keeping a prairie out. If one doesn't graze it and/or mow it, it reverts back to trees incredibly fast.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

it reverts back to trees incredibly fast.

That's what prescribed burns are for!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

My woodland strip garden

 

[Meadowlark]

That's what prescribed burns are for!

Actually, professional timber growers here use prescribed burns to promote timber growth.

A plot of land across from me was burned that way a few years back. Years later, they harvested all the timber, clear cutting it. Now, I own a good bit of it and I'm restoring the land. Fire is one of my primary tools.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Its weedin' along. And thats not a dead armadillo.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Prairie smoke

Eastern red columbine

Redwig dogwood

 

[oneeye]

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Its weedin' along. And thats not a dead armadillo.

Is he sleeping or sunbathing?

 

[Meadowlark]

Prairie smoke

I've got to get some of that Prairie smoke.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Is he sleeping or sunbathing?

Emma chases the ball until she cannot walk, staggers over to the water bucket for a snort and mouthwash, and takes a powernap.

 

[gary350]

TV said, No rain today. It has been raining 4 hours. LOL.

300 G90 sweet corn 90 day crop.
150 Roma green beans 65 day crop.
300 white onions 3½ month crop.
50 red onions 3½ month crop.
100 garlic 9 month crop.
50 French Fingerling potato plants 3 month.
600 Kennebec potato plants 3 month crop.
7 celery plants.
Several Cilantro plants.
Several Thai Basil plants.
8 Sugar Baby melon plants 76 day crop.
8 Tiger melons plants 60 day crop.
2 Hales best cantaloupe plants 90 day crop.
2 Canary Melon plants 90 day crop.
16 Egyptian walking onions with about 130 sets so far.
1 Jalapeno pepper plant.
4 Sweet Carman sweet pepper plant.
1 Row of 1000 Zinnia flowers.
6 Big Beef tomato plants.
1 Heirloom 1" cherry tomato plant.
1 Jelly Bean tomato plant.

Nothing much to do now but wait. We could go camping for a month.

 

[Meadowlark]

Pollinator garden...first year and getting established.

Swamp milkweed flourishing with Monarch caterpillars...

Dahlias beginning blooms...

Phlox first blooms...

Cosmos first blooms...

Coreopsis first blooms...

Still waiting on marigolds but zinnias and lantana going strong...

Also waiting on purple coneflowers and Black-eyed Susans next to some daylilies ...