April in the Garden: Pictures (1 of 2)
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dalthauserThe sun seemed to shine during the day yesterday and today which allowed me to get some things done in the garden. It's always a good day when i can be outside.
The garden taken from my backyard. Onions and garlic in the foreground - those things that look like weeds are actually cilantro (it grows wild now all winter....everywhere I let it.)
Marcel's Potatoes - they got hit bad by the late frost, but they seem to be recovering okay.
We've got the tomatoes growing with the winter greens for now - in the back baby sunflowers - and in the foreground you can just see the green beans.
This is italian parsley flowering. On either side is curly parsley which "lasts" much longer - If I keep it watered, it will grow through to next spring before going to seed.
This is well trimmed Swiss Chard growing with green beans now. The Chard would normally last until the end of May, but I may need to pull them early to allow the green beans room (we'll see)
Baby Sunflowers. This is my first year growing them - I hope they do well!
This is the Arugula - if you look closely you can see the seed pods. I plan to save the seeds and throw them into the yards of people I don't like (this stuff in borderline invasive - haha).
A Lady bug on Marcel's potatoes
Here is my second try at cucumbers this year (first ones died with the late frost)
Garden from another direction
The garden taken from my backyard. Onions and garlic in the foreground - those things that look like weeds are actually cilantro (it grows wild now all winter....everywhere I let it.)
Marcel's Potatoes - they got hit bad by the late frost, but they seem to be recovering okay.
We've got the tomatoes growing with the winter greens for now - in the back baby sunflowers - and in the foreground you can just see the green beans.
This is italian parsley flowering. On either side is curly parsley which "lasts" much longer - If I keep it watered, it will grow through to next spring before going to seed.
This is well trimmed Swiss Chard growing with green beans now. The Chard would normally last until the end of May, but I may need to pull them early to allow the green beans room (we'll see)
Baby Sunflowers. This is my first year growing them - I hope they do well!
This is the Arugula - if you look closely you can see the seed pods. I plan to save the seeds and throw them into the yards of people I don't like (this stuff in borderline invasive - haha).
A Lady bug on Marcel's potatoes
Here is my second try at cucumbers this year (first ones died with the late frost)
Garden from another direction
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Date: 2010-04-18 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-19 01:55 am (UTC)I forgot to plant sunflowers....
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Date: 2010-04-19 01:59 am (UTC)Lot of action going on in your garden! I'm glad Marcel's potatoes survived. Tougher than you thought.
Finished the side garden today - finally. Yeah.
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Date: 2010-04-19 04:44 am (UTC)i just got mine half planted today. i'm about 2 weeks too early for my region, but i know things will grow now. (which, by the way is something i say every year when i plant things too early).
i planted arugala today.
coulda used some free seed.
:)
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Date: 2010-04-19 10:34 am (UTC)Thought you might be interested in this
Date: 2010-04-19 03:43 pm (UTC)UN scientists are to study a cockerel which swapped sex after a fox raid on his enclosure wiped out all his hens.
Gianni's Italian owners say he started life as a red-blooded rooster on his farm in Tuscany.
But within days of the fox raid, 'he' was laying eggs and trying to hatch them as he brooded over his new life in the hen house.
Now scientists at UN's Farm and Agriculture Organisation are to study the bird's DNA to see what made him change.
"It may be a primitive species survival gene. With all the females gone he could only ensure the future of his line by becoming female," said one expert.
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Hencredible_cockerel_changed_sex
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