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Baby basil and butterfly

I’ve been sprinkling the seeds that have grown from this pot of basil on top of the soil all summer long. They would never germinate but then it rained a bunch and I left town for a few days and when I returned? Bam! Baby basil plants all over. They are so cute! Hopefully they’ll grow quickly so I can cut down the old, scraggly plants. For some reason there’s a green band along the bottom of this picture? I don’t know how that happened.basil seedlings

Also a monarch butterfly visited my back yard today. The Senecio confusus is finally blooming, it has taken forever to bloom this summer. I don’t think it likes being confined to a pot. It is a great vine with a great name, confusus!

monarch butterfly on senecio confusus

 
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Posted by on September 24, 2010 in Animals, My gardens, Plants, Townhouse yard

 

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Townhouse yard update – May 18 to 24, 2009

New bok choi, Potted up tomato plants

New bok choi, Potted up tomato plants

Last week I pulled the dog fertilized spinach and the radishes. The radishes were incredibly disappointing, this is the first time I’ve ever grown a poor crop of radishes. Maybe my green thumb is failing me or maybe I just didn’t water enough cause the soil was incredibly dry and hard. It seemed like decent soil when I dug it up in March. Oh well, I don’t like radishes much anyway. I mainly grow them cause they’re easy and pretty. In place of the spinach and radishes I planted three cultivars of bok choi, broccoli raab, and one chinese cabbage. Perhaps they will fare better than the radishes, I will try harder at the watering which is kind of a pain. I have no outdoor faucet in the back so I have to fill up watering cans in the kitchen.

Surprise! Pretty red roses

Surprise! Pretty red roses

One cool surprise was the rose bush. It is very top heavy since I didn’t prune it when I should’ve but the blooms are beautiful. I’ll cut it back once the petals are gone so it will bush out.

Hopefully I have time to plant my cherry tomatoes tonight, I really need to get all of my tomato plants in the ground very soon.

UPDATE – June 1: I planted my cherry tomatoes along with Senecio confusus which is going to need a trellis to climb very soon. I also potted up a bunch of plants into pretty pots.

Most importantly, I DISCOVERED A FAUCET! Yippee! I won’t have to fill up watering cans in the kitchen sink any more. I just need to go buy a hose now . . .

 
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Posted by on June 1, 2009 in My gardens, Plants, Townhouse yard

 

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