We've got a vegetable garden going with tomatoes, pepper, kale, cabbage, onions, and eggplants.
Also got a new pollinator garden bed started this year with Butterfly milkweed, a few different species of aster, sunflowers, blanket flower, rattlesnake master, goldenrod, purple prairie clover, Mexican hat coneflower, and some blazing star. Also scattered some sage and prairie clover seeds in a few other spots on our property. I've been sitting out documenting the various wasps and bees that visit us. We're also planning on harvesting seeds from stuff and giving them away/starting plants from them next spring to give away.
Got some logs from our neighbors that I'll drill some holes in for the mason bees.
We've got some old furniture that we don't want anymore that I'm trying to touch up a bit before giving it away to a local charity that gives people coming out of the foster system stuff like furniture and appliances to help them land on their feet.
Good job at least trying to do something. My current city and previous home city have finally started doing more native plantings and my current local city's uni has started up a significant prairie restoration project right outside the city. There are also a few small prairie restorations going on inside city limits mostly in the burbs where there's space but I can't seem to find out what org is running them.
Another viable option isn't to completely convert lawn but just make one or a few native plant beds . If you aren't willing to give up the lawn completely, you could still convert smaller portions of it.
Nice! Would it be possible to use a little +/- icon somewhere on each comment instead of having it be clicking anywhere on the comment? I could see myself very regularly accidentally collapsing stuff when I don't mean to.
OC Cordyceps tenuipes and its host insect, Southeast Nebraska
OC Eumenes fraternus on Allium flowers, Eastern Nebraska
OC Amanita amerivirosa, Southeastern Nebraska, USA
OC We've got monarchs on our A. tuberosa!
What Are You Working On?
In this thread, post what you’re working on! Guerilla gardening? eBiking? planting/pruning? Let us know!
OC Cuckoo Bee, Eastern Nebraska
OC A very tricky wasp mimic moth
OC Amanita populiphila at three stages of development, Buffalo County, Nebraska
OC Photogenic Bolete, Eastern Nebraska
OC Russula sp under both visible and UV light
OC Melissodes bimaculatus (I think) hanging out on a bush, Nebraska
OC Ammophila sp on purple coneflower
OC Northern cardinal, Buffalo County, Nebraska
OC Bee fly on Gaillardia pulchella bloom (E: maybe Villa sp)
OC Cuckoo wasp
OC Furrow bee getting a snack
do you say it as kay-bin or k'bin? (lemmy.world)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SXUDs0ee_w0
OC Ichneumonid Wasp on a purple coneflower bloom
Lawns suck rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
NWF's Keystone Plants by Ecoregion - a great resource for selecting plants for your garden/habitat (North America focused)
Link - https://www.nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/About/Native-Plants/keystone-plants-by-ecoregion...
OC Cortinarius sp (under white light and 265nm UV light for comparison)
Collapse comment thread?
Is there any way to collapse comments and their children in the interface? Seems like a fairly basic feature but I can't find it.
OC Cortinarius sp (under white and 265nm UV light)