echinacea

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Reflections on Community + Echinacea Seeds to Spare

Reflections on Community + Echinacea Seeds to Spare

I never intended for this blog to become a one sided conversation. This space isn't just about me, it's about all of us learning and growing together! Right? Right!!! Let me explain: The birth of this blog in February of 2011 came about out of a longing to both share and glean information.  My Partner and I were newbies to…
October 11, 2014
Harvesting Echinacea Seeds

Harvesting Echinacea Seeds

  2013 marked our Echinacea's third year and it was absolutely gorgeous this summer with all of its brilliant blossoms and visiting pollinators (bees and butterflies) buzzing around them all summer long!  Though I didn't actually measure them, I would say the stalks got up to about 4 feet tall for the most part which made for a brilliant eye…
November 8, 2013
Spring Freeze

Spring Freeze

Our cherry tree.  I do believe our last round of freezingtemps killed all of this wonderful potential.Echinacea & strawberriesBecause of our fluctuating temps this spring, I do believe we have lost most (if not all) of the fruit on our fruit trees this year.  I may be jumping the gun a bit, but it doesn't look incredibly hopeful. Our cherries…
May 2, 2013
Echinacea Spider

Echinacea Spider

While photographing our first echinacea, a caught a glimpse of the tiniest little legs ever...As I moved from left to right, squatted and stood up, played with macro and good ol' zoom, this little lady slowly moved from the top of her petal to the bottom of her petal in a continued attempt to escape my gaze...  Needless to say, it…
July 12, 2012
Potato Seeds and more seeds!

Potato Seeds and more seeds!

We got our seed potatoes in the mail!!!  Last year we purchased our seed potatoes from one of those big home supply stores.  They did really well at first and then just died :-(  Hopefully this years will survive! Now they just need to sprout their eyes...We plan on planting them in an old kiddie pool we purchased for the…
April 17, 2011