I think I finally know what #mastergardener educational container planting I want to show at the Knox County Fair!! Liverworts and moss with sporophytes in a Grinstead/Bouchard auction/yard sale original dish 😀alternation of generations, baby!

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~KF

To a long day of greenhouse mowing and plant database catch-up.

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leaky spigot art

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Insects of 2017

I think this is a Great Golden Digger Wasp - very unaggressive :)

Cocklebur Weevil

Green Shield Bug 

Red-spotted Purple Butterfly (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) aka the White Admiral, also interbreeds with the closely-related, congeneric viceroy butterfly, Limenitis archippus (Cramer), both in the laboratory and occasionally in the field (Platt 1975, Platt and Greenfield 1968, Covell 1994, Platt and Maudsley 1994, Platt et al. 2003, Ritland 1990).1

          I think this is a red admiral caterpillar 

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta

Harvestman spider

References

1. http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/bfly/red-spotted_purple.htm

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~KF

Herbs, greens, radishes, nasturtiums #julyharvest

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🌻🍃🍅 No. 8: Garden Tool Handles 🍃🍓🍃 #100GardenHacks

I am working on a project for the 2017
growing season to work my way through
100 garden hacks*.

It's so easy to lose tools in the garden jungle. I'm confident future excavators and/or archaeologists will be finding trowels I've single-handedly left all across the midwest. 

Brightly decorate the handles of garden tools using pool noodles, bike handlebar grips, or:

Use materials lying around the house; I find good use for old nail polish this way

  

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~KF

*101+ Garden Hacks magazine. 2017. Rodale, Inc. 

I found this copy on a CVS magazine stand :)
However, portions of this publication
previously appeared at RodaleOrganicLife.com