Category Archives: Plants

Pitcher plants blooming 2022-04-08

Never saw them bloom before.

Sarracenia minor

“It takes at least 4 years to go from a just-pollinated flower to a mature, blooming plant.” Growing Sarracenia from Seed, International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS).

These pitcher plants grew naturally in our woods.

We do have bumblebees, so maybe they will pollinate. Then maybe seeds in August or September.

Sugar Cane planting 2022-04-03

Dug out of its winter cocoon, with tractor blade and hoe. Then planted by hand in rows made by the planter, later covered with dirt by tractor cultivator. Later this year: more cane syrup.

Dug up and planted

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Wild Black Cherry blooms 2022-03-17

These will be tasty later.

Blooming wild black cherry

Later as in October for these Prunus serotina.

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Pomegranate flowers 2021-05-16

Maybe we’ll get some pomegranates to eat this year.

Purdy Pomegranate Blooms

I think we got this plant from Dennis and Dottie Price.

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Native wild azaleas 2021-04-12

These were many places in the woods, with an acre of them here: native wild azaleas, Rhododendron canescens.

Nellie, native wild azaleas, Gretchen

No, not honeysuckle. That’s a vine. These are a bush. Continue reading →

Mushrooms 2021-01-02

Magic mushrooms, wider than my shoe.

Wide ‘shrooms

Fly agaric, Amanita muscaria.

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Plants escaped 2020-12-13

Gretchen left these plants locked inside, but while she wasn’t looking they escaped.

They’ll have to go back inside tomorrow; freeze predicted. Continue reading →

Picking wild black cherries 2020-06-21

We don’t have a cherry picker, but we do have a ladder and a roof.

Gretchen on the roof picking black cherries

Later, I didn’t take a picture as I was on the ladder picking behind my head.

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Garden mowed 2020-06-21

You can almost see it’s a garden, after weeks of weeding and Gretchen had just finished mowing between the rows.

After weeks of weeding and mowing

Visible, left to right: cucumber, yellow squash, okra, eggplant, tomato, corn (maize).

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Gretchen finished weeding tomatoes 2020-06-03

Gretchen finished weeding the tomatoes.

Weeded tomatoes

Well, those tomatoes. She already weeded the other ones.

And I found those cucumbers in the okra.

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