2020 Garden Thread.

[jdmidwest]

1 hour ago, Fish24/7 said:

I grew up in the sticks, still in the country now, and don't recall ever seeing this before. Growing under a giant blackjack Oak in the shade. There's only 4 plants  together in one little spot. Any clues to what it is? 

 

Did you plant any of the seeds that the Chinese sent over in the mail??  I have no idea what that is.

[Johnsfolly]

6 hours ago, Terrierman said:

Noticed these guys on the dill I have going in a pot on the back porch area.  Thought they were so cool looking.  They will eventually form a chrysalis, over winter and emerge next year as black swallowtail butterflies.  Which we have been seeing in the yard lately.  They're commonly called parsley worms.  I've got a huge parsley plant that is bolting in our cattle watering trough planter.  I'm going to move the pot with the dill into that area and see if they want to migrate.  I like the idea of being a butterfly farmer. 

 

 

Next to monarchs these are some of my daughter's favorites. We would grow dill and fennel and rear a few butterflies each year. 

[Johnsfolly]

4 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Found this guy yesterday in the hose reel.  I think it’s a grey tree frog.  
 

pretty easy to see when they would hang out on our sliding glass doors catching bugs attracted to the dining room lights 😉

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 minute ago, Johnsfolly said:

pretty easy to see when they would hang out on our sliding glass doors catching bugs attracted to the dining room lights 😉

I think I hear him singing.  It’s definitely a frog or toad I hear so I think it’s him.  

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, Fish24/7 said:

I grew up in the sticks, still in the country now, and don't recall ever seeing this before. Growing under a giant blackjack Oak in the shade. There's only 4 plants  together in one little spot. Any clues to what it is? 

Speaking of birds, I have to give thanks for the Male Cardinals who visit my tomato plants every day eating the caterpillars. Thanks guys!!

Look up Heal-all wildflower. I think that may be what you have.

[Johnsfolly]

5 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I think I hear him singing.  It’s definitely a frog or toad I hear so I think it’s him.  

We have rain barrels at the house in Columbia and those tree frogs would get in there and call with the barrel amplifying the sound. Our one neighbor hated them and the toads.

[snagged in outlet 3]

Just now, Johnsfolly said:

We have rain barrels at the house in Columbia and those tree frogs would get in there and call with the barrel amplifying the sound. Our one neighbor hated them and the toads.

Wow!   I love hearing the natural outdoors.  

[jdmidwest]

3 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

We have rain barrels at the house in Columbia and those tree frogs would get in there and call with the barrel amplifying the sound. Our one neighbor hated them and the toads.

I hate the toads.  Neighbor has a frog pond for his turds.  We have big toads come thru in the spring and baby toads all summer like grasshoppers.  If they would only eat the mosquitoes that dam thing breeds I could like them better.

Tree frogs seem to find their way into alot of things here.  i took apart a small engine on a mower I brought back from the farm and found one in the cowling.  Had the engine started, that would have been a smelly mess.  They like the boats, find them under the tarps alot.

[snagged in outlet 3]

13 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

I hate the toads.  Neighbor has a frog pond for his turds.  We have big toads come thru in the spring and baby toads all summer like grasshoppers.  If they would only eat the mosquitoes that dam thing breeds I could like them better.

Tree frogs seem to find their way into alot of things here.  i took apart a small engine on a mower I brought back from the farm and found one in the cowling.  Had the engine started, that would have been a smelly mess.  They like the boats, find them under the tarps alot.

You hate toads!?  I thought an outdoorsman like yourself would like toads and frogs. 

[fishinwrench]

Sugarbritches had a run-in with what she described as a 2' long bright green snake with a yellow belly, hanging out in the watermelon vines.  It was gone by the time I got out there.   

Other than a Vine snake I can't think of what else it could have been.   Never seen one of those here before.