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| A view of the vegetable garden from the grape arbor entrance |
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| Beets |
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| Butterhead lettuce with peas in the background being nibbled away by a chipmunk, I think |
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| barrel of sunflowers |
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| Tomatoes have reached the top of their cages |
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| Grape vines being trained over the arbor |
We're into Summer now. The Spring season has been great for the garden this year. Flowers and vegetables are thriving. The fruit trees are loaded with baby fruits and the berry bushes have already begun producing raspberries. We've had some good rains, so weeding is a breeze! Also, today a monarch butterfly laid 19 eggs on the common and swamp milkweed. I've gathered the leaves on which the eggs were laid and will let them hatch indoors to protect them from preditors. After they become second stage cats, I'll move them to the milkweed plants in the nursery enclosure to fully develop into adult monarchs ... egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. They'll then be released from the enclosure to continue the cycle.
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