Ok, here's an update on the Verbena bonariensis situation from my post yesterday. Less than 12 hours later and the two plants have been almost totally skeletonized by something I cannot see. There is a healthy Verbena less than 6 inches to the left of the picture that is totally untouched. Any thoughts? #gardening #allotment #zone6b #NewEngland #insects #entomology @gardening
Heute ist der internationale Tag der Biene. Leider denken die meisten Menschen dabie nur an die Honigbiene. Mindestens 40% der Bestäubungen werden jedoch von Wildbienen gemacht. Hier gibt es Informationen darüber:
I have planted about 24 Verbena bonariensis plants in this flower bed & there are numerous self-seeded ones too. In just this one spot at the corner of the bed I have had to replace these two plants 3X. Each time, the plants were reduced to a few shriveled leaf stalks in about 2 days. Everything else is untouched & doing fine. This time I'm trying a defense of diatomaceous earth since I am assuming slug damage. I'll update results. 😀 #gardening #allotment #zone6b #NewEngland @gardening
Visited Schreiner's iris gardens yesterday, and started work on the raised beds. As always too much to do in the garden, but enjoying every bit of color to be found! #pnwgardening#bloomscrolling#gardening
Has anyone had any experience of using anaerobic digester digestate (the solid stuff that comes out the end)? One of the community gardens I’m involved with has been offered a tonne bag full of it.
I think it can be used as a mulch but we’ve been warned not to add it too thickly. I’ve been gifted a small bag of the digestate today & it smelled a bit like ammonia.
Any tips? #Gardening@gardening #AnaerobicDigester
This #Monday morning I’m bored and pondering seed things, such as bigleafed maple whirlybirds at the park, chive flowers, and garlic scapes from the garden, which I ate. Have also consumed the year’s first garlic cloves, a whole bulb already. #GetOutside#Gardening#GrowYourOwn
This was one of the 1st #wildflowers I IDed. Was completely unknown to me & that brilliant white drew me in. After many to attempts photograph, I realized that shadows or overcast skies made it easier to catch the delicate texture in the petal.
Taken photos of it in the field but this is a plant I put in last yr (no blooms last yr). This is one of this year's blooms 👍.
(05/18/24)