Showing posts with label bunnies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bunnies. Show all posts

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Does anyone know if this is an Assassin bug?

So I thought this looked like an assassin bug, but I am not really sure...Do you know?

I hope so cause I released it...into the garden!


We finished this bed. This is a different angle. Also has a little Patch Master around it! Hopefully I can get the baby bunny to stop eating the marigolds long enough to get them to grow to more than just stubs! I put some blood meal out yesterday, hope it helps.


Sunday, June 7, 2009

Vegetable Garden in Progress

We have been working in the garden today, even though the kids and I have been sick. I just got it last night, they are getting over it.
Last fall we transplanted some hostas from the back yard to around the front tree. Some did not make it so I transplanted some more, that would be the smaller ones. Hopefully they will catch up with a little care and fertilizer.
We finally put some compost down on the side bed. Now it just needs and edge.

The pumpkins, melons, and flowers are doing well, as long as the cats and bunnies stay away. One has been nibbled on already.

On the left is one seeded and one seedless watermelon and Lemon and American Slicing Cucumbers. In the back is tomato and oregano, I trimmed the oregano down. Hope that helps it along. In the middle I have some cilantro and habanero peppers. And a Serrano pepper on the right side.

Here I have bell peppers in the middle. Cabbage in the left bottom corner. And some Acorn seedling just starting to come up in the right bottom corner.

Tomato, Broccoli, cabbage, catnip, and another Acorn seedling. There is some more tomato and Serrano pepper behind the big tomato plant.

This was the first bed started with tomato, beans, lettuce, chard, spicy bush basil, and I just added some summer squash to the left. It all appears to be doing well even though most of it was late getting going.

An overall view. Still haven't got the paths in yet. Maybe when we don't have so much other work to do in the yard. It isn't a top priority as long as the garden is growing!

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Eating and pooping!

Something is eating my plants. Something small and something larger. Some bugs and maybe some rabbits. Last year we used blood meal around the plants to keep the bunnies away, and it worked quite well as long as I kept up with putting it out again after the rain washed it away. Something even bigger is making it's dumps in my SFG's! Today is the second day I have found a big pile right in my plant box. Maybe a cat, maybe a dog! But I want them out, so I ordered some insect barrier net today and I hope it gets here quick! And I hope that it keeps the bigger animals away as well as the little bug(gers). Maybe it will stop raining some time soon long enough for us to get out in the garden again! I feel so behind.