Just to be on the safe side we dip the veggies we get at the store in a vinegar solution before storing them. Thought them laying out dying made for an interesting photo.
Dipped Veggies
One of the Approximately 5.5 Million Species of Insects
Each morning when I go out to the coach house there are “bugs” around the door. Likely attracted during the night due to the light being on all night long. I didn’t recall seeing this one before.
Starting a New Cactus Plant
A house up the road from us has an interesting cactus plant out next to the street. It grows vertically with the paddles coming if a single main ‘trunk”. They girl I am married to was walking by it some time ago and noticed a couple of paddles had fallen off the plant.
It’s been about a month since she laid a paddle on the ground in this bed and look what has grown.
The original paddle is slowly drying up while the new growth looks great. This is not where we want it to grow, so in another month or so when it is better established we will transplant it in our cactus/succulent bed next to the back fence.
It Didn’t Take Long
It was as if those Morning Glory seeds could wait to send up seedlings to replace the old vines. It onlt took some 30 hours for them to emerge from the soil,
Setting up this spray head likely had much to do with them popping out of the ground. They do like plenty of water when they are little. Look for periodic progress reports in the future.
Will Edging Solve the Problem?
It has been a constant fight between the purple plants and the ever encroaching Bermuda grass in the area surrounding this palm tree. Noticing that many of our neighbors have installed edging to solve this problem, we picked up a 20 foot long section of plastic edging while buying some other gardening supplies this morning. It being our usual miserable hot humid weather, installation can wait until tomorrow morning.
