I borrow four more books from the library:
– Sunset – Western Garden Annual, 2000 Edition
– Reader’s Digest – The One-Hour Garden by Joanna Smith
– Ortho Books – Complete Guide to Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs
– Ortho Books – All About Pruning by Judy Lowe
Although I haven’t been able to garden much this past week and a half, I have been checking the plants after work to make they have enough water. I’ve also been keeping an eye on the seedlings and they look fine.
This morning as I was weeding and dead-heading in the front yard, I spotted a Praying Mantis on the Dahlia. At first it freaked me out, but then I ran to get my camera. It’s weird because I’ve only seen one Praying Mantis in our garden before… so I’m wondering if this is the Praying Mantis that I brought home on July 7th.
The Praying Mantis on the Happy Single Dahlia
Grooming Praying Mantis (Note the deep purple foliage on the Dahlia)
… and speaking of bugs that freaked me out, I saw this spider on our patio last night…
Today I thinned the seedlings in the newspaper pots to a few strong ones. I’ll thinned them to a single plant once they get a little bigger.
I also clipped a lot of dead leaves from the tomatoes and cucumber to make things a little tidier. Anyone know why most of the bottom leaves are dying on my cucumber? Is this normal? or is there something wrong?
I did my fourth big tomatoes harvest and I got a lot, considering I only have two tomato plants this year.
Here are two photos of flower that are about to bloom
Fucshia triphylla Firecracker
Naked Lady
I’m not sure if this Naked Lady is Amaryllis belladonna or Lycoris squamigera. Can anyone tell just from the photo?
My Uncle Ray made me a really nice shelf out of some scrap wood that he had. I gave him the dimensions that I needed to fit 6 nursery trays and they fit perfectly! :)
Now I have an neat way to store my seedlings and cuttings
Thank you very much Uncle Ray!!!