Sugar cane cutting and bedding.
Sugar Cane cutting and bedding
Everybody used to use a small child and a Prius C, right?
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Sugar cane cutting and bedding.
Sugar Cane cutting and bedding
Everybody used to use a small child and a Prius C, right?
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A week after Hurricane Idalia, this Treat’s Rain Lily was blooming.
Normally they bloom in the spring. Continue reading
A place to watch the garden.
Swing with arbor of Smilax, Grapevine, and Beautyberry (fb)
The real canopy is oaks and pines above.
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The maypop Gretchen staked three weeks ago has climbed up the stake.
Maypop, fruit, dogs 2023-05-29
Gretchen tied it on some more. Continue reading
These usually start blooming in June, so it’s a little ahead.
It appears to be a Hibiscus laevis, halberdleaf rose-mallow or scarlet rose mallow.
Here are flowers from nearby plants a year ago, and a year before that.
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Update 2023-05-30: Maypop fruit 2023-05-29.
This maypop is growing in an area we burned in January, and it had nothing to climb up on.
So Gretchen put in a stake for this Passiflora incarnata.
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Two views of mushrooms on a log.
Anybody know what kind of mushroom this is?
It’s in a wet area near Redeye Creek, which runs into the Withlacoochee River.
Looks like Pleurotus ostreatus is the consensus. Apparently, “Cleaned mushrooms can be sautéed, stir-fried, braised, roasted, fried, or grilled. Use the mushrooms whole, sliced, or simply torn into appropriately sized pieces.”
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Two methods of potato digging.
Two views of ‘tater digging 2023-05-15
On the left, tractor and blade. Upside: digs them right up. Downside: and buries them in the dug dirt, so you have to dig them up again. Continue reading
The recently planted cane was well-sprouted a week later.
A somewhat closer view. Continue reading
Was less work than expected.
Cane planting and planted 2023-04-21
Not burying it as deep this year, though. Only need four inches of dirt to keep it from freezing, not two feet to shovel off. Continue reading