Mood:
a-okNow Playing: Natalie Merchant mother nature on the run in1970's
Topic: Tomato takeoff
"Hoping for a replacement when the Sun burst through the sky" Natalie Merchant sings. Taking a bit of a rain day from gardening for others and hoping for the energy to do my own garden and house keeping today. "...All in a Dream. Flying mother natures silver seed to a new home in the sun" I have quite a few Joe Pye flowers but need more so time to do some more seeding of those butterfly magnets and others like Asclepias tuberosa Butterfly Weed and Liatris aspera Button blazing star need to be seeded now in order to have plants for this time next year. Brings new meaning for the phrase plan ahead eh? Golden Alexanders are in bloom(pictured below) among the hostas, azaleas and Ninebark shrubs making our east side bed a veritable butterfly haven with a few hummingbirds thrown in for good measure. If we build it, they will come back. If we leave our habitats sterile that is all they will be. Forking our quack grass to make way for the 2' tall all ready 'maters in the main garden. MMM can almost taste them!The butterfly gardens bring the pollenators around for a larger tomato crop, Ya follow?
