The Strawberry plant that only bloomed.

The perfect strawberry bloom, after a nice rain. I'm still waiting for actual berries. This plant was purchased early this year - not one strawberry, yet.

Being this late in the season, I might as well stop hoping. Maybe next year!!!

 

Story of the LEMON TREE and the ants.

My lemon tree before the dirt transplant.

Oooh. I don't like ants on my plants. A while back, I noticed an increasing number of ants on, in, and around my lemon plant; therefore, I had to take action. This plant was grown from a single lemon seed that I pushed into the soil; having no idea that a plant would actually grow from it.

Ants were on the leaves.

Ants were on the stem.

After removing from bucket, and before the ants dirt was shaken out.

Can you see the ants?

The anty dirt is back on the earth for remixing with "old soil".

With most of the ants shaken out, the plant is laying on the ground, waiting to be planted.

Freshy planted in "new dirt".

A young plant. Yet so many thorns.

I couldn't resist pinching a leaf just to smell that vibrant lemon fragrance.

...and this is the dirt pit that was left after I dug the dirt for the lemon tree.

Lets have WATERMELON but not the seeds

Well, actually you can have the seeds in this great project. As part of our team's project, we're making watermelon themed items. I decided to make an apron. Ok, I'll admit that I cheated a little; as I used a fabric panel to create my project.

However, I did use my imagination, as I extended the EXTRA LARGE pocket with complimentary red, black and white fabrics.

As you can see in the above photo; I added lining to the pocket for extra durability. The nice apron can be purchased in my QUILT SALAD SHOP by clicking on this link in my Etsy shop.  The apron will fit a slim to medium sized adult.

Will be nice for cookouts in any season. Great for watermelon lovers.

We really did have SNOW in the Southeast USA this year. Great photos

These photos are late, but great.

I've been busy trying to get a lot of my raw yarn made into fantastic wearable big rasta hats, so that my yarn supply is mostly depleted by the end of the year.

These photos were taken on Feb. 12, 2010; but I'm just getting around to posting them. Enjoy them. 

 Perhaps they will give you a cool feeling amidst these rising spring/summer temperatures.

I can't remember how many inches we had, but it stuck on the tree limbs.

My back yard enjoyed the winter wonderland.

Only one of the chicken dared venture out into the "whiteness". The others took a look, said NO THANKS, and turned around. This girl is obviously tasting the snow. (Can't remember her reaction to it)

I hope that all of the cold weather killed most of the mosquitos.

My wonderful landscaping went to the snow.

I'm not sure of how the Yucca plants, tropical plants, felt about all of the snow. I did notice that several of them fell over.

Bon appetite/snow photos.

In re an inquiry about the size of my okra

Lucky me for keeping records of almost everything. After the inquiry about the size of my okra, it wasn't difficult to find the answer to poster, Timeless Beauty's question.

I kept the empty seed packages for all of the vegetables that I planted in my garden this spring. Even though most didn't grow well, I know exactly what I planted and where. I have a map that I didn't post here, showing what went where. Even though when I did the planting, I had never imagined that I would have finally set up my blog, and that someone would inquire about one of my plantings. I love the inquiry, makes me feel like a real gardener. LOL

As shown in the photo, this particular okra grew to about 4 inches. (or 3 inches if you don't count the stem). I pull them before they grow too large and become hard. (Some are smaller when pulled, however, as is shown in the previous post.) The variety is Clemson spineless. I don't know if you are able to read the info on the back of the package, but it says 'best when pods are 4 to 5 inches long. It, also, states that they grow to 7-8 inches long. I would imagine that they would be too hard by then.

I smiled as I passed the egg section while shopping yesterday.

Yes, with my babies giving me the freshest eggs on the planet, I can say goodbye to store eggs for a while. Two of the six are laying steadily. A third is laying soft shelled; will be glad when she learns the trick of the trade and hardens up.
(The white egg is the last of my store bought eggs)

The beads have no connection to the eggs; just thought they looked cute together.















And this is all that I collected from my FARM/garden today. The egg was laid about 2 hours ago from this posting. I pulled the okra about an hour ago. This is as fresh as you can get.