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Hi, I'm Dave and thanks for visiting. I garden in Zone 6b in southern Indiana, and I blog here about gardening, nature and food.
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Photo Friday: Wild Butterfly Garden
It’s been quite a while since I shared any photos from the area we call the Wild Butterfly Garden. My wife worked hard this spring to get it cleaned up and mulched, and we are now filling in a few … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Friday
Tagged bees, butterflies, coneflower, herbs, hummingbirds, petunias, pollinators, sedum
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Photo Friday: July Flowers
I thought I would share some images of the Happy Acres summer flowers that are blooming now. First up is the Becky Shasta daisy. It’s a lovely bloomer that butterflies like but the deer don’t! Nearby Becky is the Jubilee … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Photo Friday
Tagged bees, butterflies, Echinacea, flowers, Photo Friday, Photography, pollinators
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Monday Recap: Tater Time
The potato vines started yellowing and turning brown last week, and that me it was time to start digging a few potatoes. I started with the fingerling Red Thumb, then continued with Russian Banana and Purple Majesty. That made for … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged butterflies, cabbage, cold frame, deer, green beans, Juliet, kale, Monday Recap, potatoes, summer squash, tomatoes, White Scallop squash
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Survivors
At Happy Acres we like tough plants. We don’t have a lot of time to coddle and baby our plants, so we tend to lean towards ones that survive with a minimum of fuss and bother. We have large number … Continue reading
Emergence
I was privileged this week to see something that usually goes on around us unnoticed. Last week I spotted a butterfly chrysalis on one of the fennel plants in the herb garden just outside our kitchen door. My wife and … Continue reading
