Last year I asked readers if anyone could identify this plant: Recently, Richard of XID, a weed identification system, supplied the answer. This is a lovely photo of a lamium purpureum. Other, more common names, for this plant include red deadnettle, purple deadnettle, or purple archangel. Thanks so much for solving the mystery, Richard!
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I’m not sure if it was our increased dedication to weeding and fertilizing OR the record temperatures that helped us. Whatever the cause, we’re getting a great harvest of peppers this year. Several years ago I tried growing potatoes in a barrel. It involved planting potatoes in the bottom of a barrel. When the plants grew I put more dirt on top, leaving the very top portion of the plant uncovered. When the plant grew some more, I repeated the process. I continued until the barrel was [...] The plum trees in the mobile orchard/vinyard produced their first fruit this year. We got about two pounds of plums. The Man of the House is freezing them for use in wine. Last year we added a small lavender garden to our front yard. This is how it looked last September. The lavender isn’t in bloom right now, but take a look at the below photo to see how much they’ve grown. Last weekend we harvested the garlic that we’d overwintered. The Man of the House harvested cherries tonight. Our trees are still young so the harvest was small, but a huge improvement over last year. Here are the cherries from one of our four trees. When we noticed that the cherry trees in the mobile orchard vineyard were starting to turn color, we netted them to keep the fruit from the birds. Once we’ve harvested the cherries it will about time to net the grape vines. |
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