Our raspberries are so happy now on the south side of the embankment, they are producing whole bowls full of raspberries each day. Rather small bowls, but still a bit improvement from last year when we were each getting a quarter of a raspberry.
We are also harvesting our first beans. The girls were not too eager to try the purple beans, but were excited to learn that they turn green when boiled. Magic beans!
My flower beds have become infested with these black and red caterpillars. I am not sure if they are poisonous, or what they eat, but suspect they are up to no good, so I have been gathering them up with disposable chopsticks each morning and dropping them in the river.
Feeling blue.... I planted cornflowers and campanula seeds in all different colors, but only the blue and purple actually grew, so my south flowerbed is a little monotone.
Some of the more colorful flowers are starting to revive in the north flower bed now that that the daffodil leaves have been removed.
First lily...
We are also harvesting our first beans. The girls were not too eager to try the purple beans, but were excited to learn that they turn green when boiled. Magic beans!
My flower beds have become infested with these black and red caterpillars. I am not sure if they are poisonous, or what they eat, but suspect they are up to no good, so I have been gathering them up with disposable chopsticks each morning and dropping them in the river.
Feeling blue.... I planted cornflowers and campanula seeds in all different colors, but only the blue and purple actually grew, so my south flowerbed is a little monotone.
Some of the more colorful flowers are starting to revive in the north flower bed now that that the daffodil leaves have been removed. 
First lily...
4 comments:
oh, the caterpillars are lovely! they become butterflies, orange and black (and sometimes with a band of white). not poisonous, and they LOVE LOVE LOVE pansies. last year we kept a few in an insect box and they made chrysalis and everything. hiro was so excited when they 'hatched'!
Ah, well I will let them eat the remains of my pansies then. Thank you for letting me know! They just looked so poisonous...
don't they look prickly!! and the color. but pretty harmless (unless you're a pansy farmer i guess. good thing i only have pansies in the winter! LOL)
They did do a number on my pansies, some of which I started from seed in Sept, but didn't really get going until April. Too bad. But since mid-June, I've been pulling the sad pansy remnants, so I suppose the caterpillars are welcome now.
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