wild caterpillar

i found this crazy caterpillar


turns out its a Hyalophora Cecropia








the caterpillar will turn into this pretty moth http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/kwhcecropia.htm

my garden


sunflower


big fat fuzzy bumblebee


tomatoes


green bean flowers are weird looking

flowers and cheap tomato cages

another puzzle. this one was missing SEVEN pieces. i've never had one missing so many. but i get them at goodwill for 99 cents... so occasional missing pieces arent unusual.


cleome flower. my dad sent me the pic asking if i could help identify it, and the lovely folks in a gardening community helped me figure out what it is. its interesting looking.


the tomato plants in wimpy cages that fell over. i tried to prop them back up, but the cages were so bent.


so i pulled the old wimpy cages off and put new strong cages in. which is NOT easy to do on full grown tomato plants with lots of (cherry) tomatoes already growing.


knocked a few loose from one plant


wimpy bent to fuck tomato cage


second one fixed


more knocked loose


calendula flowers




marigolds


giant zucchini plant (with some powdery mildew)


sunflowers are coming


what the sunflower head looks like as its first coming in


garden in full swing


crazy tomatoes


more crazy tomatoes


beans


nasturtiums still in full bloom

daylilies, hose repair, sweetpea, and pot washing

dark red daylily




black eyed susans


purple coneflower - or rather red?


pink daylily. i didnt buy any pink daylilies, so one of the ones i bought was mislabeled.


asiatic lilies


i dont know why the white ones are so much shorter than the red ones


so bright and cheerful - asiatic lilies




another hole in the buried soaker hose. i used a garden stake to mark where the water was spraying out.


dug it out, but couldnt find the split


turned the water to the hose on, and then off. now i can see where the split is


let the muddy hole dry out a bit and came back. now the split is much clearer


the hose mender is a piece you stick into the two cut off ends of the hose


and then clamp pieces that you screw tight over that piece and the two ends of the hose


and then this is all you see


there are also hose menders for just the end of the hose


sweetpea munching on watermelon


she really likes watermelon




pot washing


trays too


i go thru a LOT of pots


gotta dry them off good before stacking and storing


lots of trays. turns out the greenhouse shelves are good for drying stuff too


so many pots