We returned from Alaska to find a few extra weeds, but mostly our house-sitter did a great job watering. The cauliflower is just starting to head up, there are flowers on the zuccini and there are volunteer tomatoes, melo
ns and sunflowers everywhere. The sunflowers came up from the bird seed and some of them are amazing. This one must have 20 flowerheads. The peas didn't survive the heat, but the tomatoes are flourishing.
We spent yesterday in the desert gathering dried yucca stalks to make more trellises for them to climb on. (The ladder leaning on the porch is made of dry yucca tied together with wire.
Here's a picture of our sacraficial parsley. We came home to find it covered with caterpillars. They're black swallowtails and we're waiting for them to form their crysalis cases. They've eaten all the top leaves of the parsley but haven't touched anything else. It's the second year for the parsley, and we don't need the whole plant anyway, so we're sharing with these beautiful creatures.
We returned from Alaska to find a few extra weeds, but mostly our house-sitter did a great job watering. The cauliflower is just starting to head up, there are flowers on the zuccini and there are volunteer tomatoes, melo
ns and sunflowers everywhere. The sunflowers came up from the bird seed and some of them are amazing. This one must have 20 flowerheads. The peas didn't survive the heat, but the tomatoes are flourishing.
We spent yesterday in the desert gathering dried yucca stalks to make more trellises for them to climb on. (The ladder leaning on the porch is made of dry yucca tied together with wire.
Here's a picture of our sacraficial parsley. We came home to find it covered with caterpillars. They're black swallowtails and we're waiting for them to form their crysalis cases. They've eaten all the top leaves of the parsley but haven't touched anything else. It's the second year for the parsley, and we don't need the whole plant anyway, so we're sharing with these beautiful creatures.
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