Judith Browning

I thought the rain had stopped for the usual summer drought but we had a nice little half inch shower mid day.

I am done with cucumbers and so are friends and family...I don't can them and we eat a lot fresh and a few in vinegar with onion in the refrigerator to stretch the season.
I brine some but we never eat them before they soften and they are too salty for our taste...so, as much as I looked forward to the first one I think I could live without them until next year.

Long beans are producing and enough to dehydrate and eat lots, green beans are done except for seed....what I'm really determined to have a lot to harvest in the fall are sweet potatoes, both purple and orange so I did water them some early today before the rain.

Eating a lot of moringa, purple sweet potato leaves, lambs quarters and a bit of new growth on the chicory that has not gone to seed.

passion flower vine everywhere....maybe we'll do something with the fruit this year...I'll share seeds if anyone wants some?

The hummingbirds have been busy at different flowers but mostly the hyacinth beans (and tithonia, of course)....they are ignoring those bright red scarlet runner bean blooms though!

the row of flowers and sweet potatoes pictured below has filled in a bit more than I expected with all these rains...I kept planting and everything took for a change.  The test will be whether the sweets produce as they are the important 'crop' in that row.

R Grier wrote:

Tommy Kilpatrick wrote:Looked normal to me and both links worked fine. Was able to purchase Hügelkultur book for $1 and download (I already own it, but hey, have an extra buck)..

I dont feel like that was very nice 😭 there are plenty of us who DON'T own it yet who would have loved to have it. Oh well though, easy come easy go i suppose!

( before you say "you can't even afford 10$?!🤨", You try providing for 5 kids with rent on 1 income in America!)

Also, the email worked, but obviously it back to 10$ before I got there because I missed it.  😵

Tommy was just doing what was asked 😊
I have extra gift codes to share from Paul's Kickstarter's I've participated in....check out this link   https://permies.com/t/370396/gift-FREE-code-links-kickstarters and see if there's anything of interest and help your self....there is also a lot of free information on huglekulture in the forum by that name.

Tereza, I never thought about them being invasive although I do see large clumps and hedges of them around here.
What's that saying...something like "One woman's '________' is another woman's '_______' ?

I've been trying to grow them for years!
Apparently they like more water than I've been willing to share during the droughts here.
I finally planted these at the edge of the porch drip line where I would also love a screen from sun and the street...there is a mowed path in front of them so maybe they won't go far?

One year I collected seed and got some sweet little baby cannas but they did not winter over.

Now that I know who does this I'll watch this unfurled leaf for signs of occupancy!

that's a wonderful quote by Redhawk M Ljin 💜

Understanding cause and effect
as both relative and temporally infinite,
ultimately beginningless and endless,
we then can confront the causal world
more creatively,
knowing we are both part of it
and potentially all of it.

Robert A. F. Thurman
(1941-2026, Buddhist author and translator)

you got it Tereza!

yep, it's around here....

Brazilian skipper butterfly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calpodes_ethlius

The wingspan is 45–61 mm. Adults are on wing in late summer in the north. There are several generations from April to December in southern Texas, two generations from July to November in Arizona. Adults are on wing throughout the year in Florida and the tropics.

Adults feed on Lantana in Arizona. In Costa Rica, adults have been recorded feeding on the nectar from large white or pale yellow flowers of woody lianas, trees and shrubs.[citation needed]

Larval hosts include Canna spp., in which the larvae roll or fold the ends of leaves into tents.[2]: 312

I still don't quite understand...they roll them selves in the leaf and then at some point eat their way out, then the leaf unfurls like nothing happened?
pretty cool.

Well, maybe,
canna leaf rollers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna_leaf_roller

might not be this far north.

No leaves are rolled....

I just looked around and there's nothing 'non bug like' that might have made that pattern.
I first checked the short bit of fence at the base of it and it's heavy hogwire...no little pokey things in a pattern.