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Standing in the rain with a hose, watering the plants
I don’t know if my neighbours look out their windows late at night. But if they had the other night, they’d have seen me standing in the rain with a garden hose, watering the front garden. They, you and the … Continue reading
Friday photo – 2013’s “also rans” part 2
I know it’s Saturday, but today instead of a link post I’m doing part two of the photos I almost displayed as a Friday photo. Each of these photos was good enough and interesting enough to go in, but got … Continue reading
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Tagged asteraceae, blossom, chickpeas, corymbia, dandelion, featherflower, firstsummer, flies, grasshopper, hanging baskets, harvest, insects, kalanchoe, lime, low water use, mating, orange morrison, peanuts, pelargonium, pot plants, predation, red flowering gum, secondspring, seedhead, seedpods, shadow, verticordia, verticordia nitens, west indian lime, zone 4
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Friday photo – Wirewood seeds
Posted in Friday photos, Protein profiles
Tagged acacia, acacia coriacea, arils, bush food, firstsummer, protein, seed pods, seeds, wirewood
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Friday photo – Straw Berries
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Tagged berries, firstsummer, harvest, secondspring, strawberries
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Heat tolerant vegies
One of the surviving-summer strategies I’m using heavily in my zone 3 gardens is choosing heat-tolerant plants. Heat tolerance is an important thing to select for, but it’s not as obvious as it first seems. For instance, I don’t mean … Continue reading
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Tagged drought-tolerant, firstsummer, heat, heat tolerant, heatwaves, hot climate crops, hot weather vegetables, secondsummer, summer, summer vegetables, vegetables, zone 3
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