Sun Sugar wins the award for first ripe tomato of the 2020 season, with Early Girl not far behind!
(Crossposted to Instagram)
Homegrown Tomatoes
Category Archives: gardening
trying not to kill the beautiful things
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: July 2020
Blooms always seem to be scarce in the heat of mid-July — especially when deer have eaten the lilies. I think some deer-resistant, drought-loving native plants are in my future.
As always, many thanks to Carol of May Dreams Gardens for hosting Bloom Day on the 15th of every month!
Status: Itchy
Me being me, of course I would get a poison ivy rash on my face the day before I’m scheduled to be back in the office in person.
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: June 2020
It’s my first year growing zucchini! 
Dortmund climbing rose 
Unnamed white rose 
Dr. Huey (RIP, Tamora) 
No-ID lily 
This spread into a container, and I don’t mind. 
I think this is a white lamium? 
Miss Wilmott 
David Austin Heritage 
Shade-lovers 
Close-up of purple and chartreuse 
Found this monarch caterpillar in my front garden!
Inchworm
This little guy hitched a ride indoors on some peonies last week.
BTW, the soundtrack for this video is Inchworm, performed by Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins and his Chorus and Orchestra, published by Decca Records in 1952, digitized from record (78 rpm) and uploaded to Archive.org by someone with a fancier hi-fi setup than mine.
Even so, I received a Copyright Claim email within minutes of uploading this one-minute video to YouTube. For including one minute and six seconds of a song recorded before my mother was born on an unmonetized video. I understand that copyright infringement is a Big Deal, but it’s seriously just a cute one-minute vignette.