Baymule’s 2023 Garden

[flowerbug]

My Daddy always planted Catalpa trees for the worms. Pick them off, put in a container, shake cornmeal over them so they don’t stick together and freeze them. Fish bait!

i thought for sure the last part of that was going to say deep fry...

 

[baymule]

i thought for sure the last part of that was going to say deep fry...

I’ve never been THAT hungry!

 

[flowerbug]

I’ve never been THAT hungry!

me either! but i never know for southerners and their strange ideas. i mean, okra, who ever decided that was edible? deep fried even! it's delicious. y'all are crazy but gotta give credit where it is due.

 

[baymule]

Found 2 more Catalpa worms eating my tomato plant. They both got close up views of the rock driveway and the bottom of my shoe.

 

[baymule]

They are kinda pretty. Squish.

 

[Carol Dee]

I have plants coming up!
In this tub I planted parsley, oregano and thyme. I have tiny green dots.

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I planted medicinal strain calendulas in this tub. Lots coming up, will probably transplant some to somewhere else.

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I planted a dozen Anasazi sweet corn, old seed, in this tub. Only a few came up. Trying to replenish the seed.

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This is buttercup winter squash.

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Cucumbers! So I can make my crisp sweet pickles.

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Front tub is zucchini, back tub is yellow squash.

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A neighbor gave me 4 tomato plants. I planted beets around them.

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I have blooms!

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So that is my garden. It isn’t much, but at least I’m growing something. I’m looking forward to a ripe tomato.
Catalpa worms have attacked, I thought they only ate Catalpa leaves? I don’t have a Catalpa tree, but I have the worms.

Those tubs look prefect for container gardening. We have a Catalpa but have never seen Catalpa worms!

 

[baymule]

Those tubs look prefect for container gardening. We have a Catalpa but have never seen Catalpa worms!

I’d mail you some, but I don’t think they would survive the trip! LOL

 

[Zeedman]

I’d mail you some, but I don’t think they would survive the trip! LOL

I can just envision the chaos if a package of those broke open in the PO.

 

[baymule]

I can just envision the chaos if a package of those broke open in the PO.

EEEWWWWE!!!!! WORMS!!!!!’

 

[Crealcritter]

I stumbled across a live leach in the yard today. No where near the pond, makes me wonder why it was there? Probably one of those crane birds dropped it, It was a big leach. Anyways, I let it attach to my finger and took it to the pond. As soon as it hit the water, a fish got it. I'm always looking down while on a walk about, for snakes.

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