Lazy Blogger

Okay, okay, I've been a lazy blogger but I have been busy with little outdoor projects. We've had such nice weather that I've been working away making things, such as....
cedar planter boxes,








motel birdhouse with a rhodo limb perch,
















pea/green bean trellis,













and a single birdhouse with a Outer Banks, NC driftwood perch.

Tomatoes, Tomatillos and Peppers OH MY!

We've had some very unusual 80 degree weather and that makes me even more anxious to get in the garden. On Saturday we planted potatoes, onions, lettuce, spinach, radishes and carrots. Here in the picture you'll see my tomatoes, peppers and tomatillos growing nice and strong, too early for them to go outside though.

Does anyone know......

Does anyone know what kind of caterpillar this is? If I had to guess I would say it's a luna moth caterpillar. As I was walking to the mailbox today I seen this huge bug-gar just a gettin' it across my driveway on it's way to my garden. Of course I have to go in for a closer look! It's funny to see all of the creatures ya come across when your not spraying chemicals all over the place!

Country Welcome

Isn't this a nice country welcome!










I was so tickled when this flower started blooming. Turns out that I had ordered flower seed called "kiss me over the garden gate" and the supplier was out. Later a friend offered me this flower called "lady fingers" and like any flower lover I stashed it away in my garden. Lo and behold it was the SAME FLOWER! Yippie!





















How did these catapillars know I planted this dill for them?

Little Critters

Bee on cucumber bloom








Where's Waldo? Baby praying mantis on corn











Soon to be butterfly











just emerged butterfly

Harvest Time

Russian heirloom tomatoes








heirloom zucchini









dill









heirloom cantaloupe
cabbage
jalapeno's
and my supper....
mustard greens, cukes, red potatoes, onions and little fingers carrots.

I am so tickled with my carrots, I tried something new by growing them in a pot! After visiting the urban homestead website, a family in Pasadena CA raising a garden on a tenth of an acre using raised beads and pots and having great success I thought I would give it a try and what do ya know, it works! I've never had much luck growing carrots in my garden so from now on they will be pot bound. Organic gardening is lots more work but well worth it.

Garden Babies

Just look at my little babies! First I have a zucchini then a national pickling cucumber, a cute little cantaloupe and my last two pictures are mexico midget tomatoes. I bought my cucumbers, zucchini and tomatoes from heirloomvegetables on ebay, click here to see their stuff. I bought my cantaloupe named mamaw's sweetest from smokymistgardens on etsy, click here to see their seeds.

In the Garden

Here are a few pictures from my flower gardens.

Garden Days

Sweet William, raspberries, lettuce blooms
















This year I tried something different with some of my peas. After coming across Path to Freedom the urban homesteaders in California I thought I would try a few veggies in pots, as you can see their doing great! Another new project is mixing buckwheat with corn, that's working out to be a winner too.


















World's smallest butterfly?

Can't wait for the blueberries.
Get in my belly!!!












Here I came across this sleeping bumblebee and then, uh o, now a grumpy bee!










A resting dragonfly, all that flying around is hard work ya know!










What a pretty butterfly on my astilbe, looks like he's got lots
of yummy pollen or is that just puffy orange shorts?

Hurry up Spring!

You can tell by the colors I'm using of late that I am sooo ready for spring. So ready that I've already started some tomato and pepper seeds. These lampwork glass beads are now for sale in my etsy shop, click the picture to check them out.