I raced out yesterday without posting most of the pictures. Here’s the pictures to accompany yesterday’s post – now you can see the colors! Enjoy!
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How to Grow Green Beans Organically
Beans – whether green beans, snap beans, heirloom beans, or any other kind of beans – are easy to grow organically. They need warm temperatures, full sunshine, and fertile soil to grow at their best. While there are insect pests that will eat the leaves of bean plants, they generally don’t harm the beans themselves,…
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Meet a Polyphemus Moth Caterpillar
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Home Grown Garlic: How to Grow Garlic
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Interestingly enough, what you are calling hot summer color combinations like you are showing here seems to be all I have in the back around the pool. I have all those glad colors you are showing sot hose are my favs in your shots here. Fortunately I think all the blue of the pool is enough to balance all that color out. Or not!
That’s funny Colleen! The glads were a mixed color package I grabbed at the dollar store; I have to stock up next year, they are just so robust.
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Our color is slow coming this year in Maine. So is the heat, too, actually. So I’m double-loving your flowers!
Thanks June! I love Maine. We almost moved there. Enjoy your summer!