Here’s the picture I promised you of the tiny, new burgundy Amaranth springing up:

Here’s the picture I promised you of the tiny, new burgundy Amaranth springing up:
♪ In the rainy, muddy month of May….
♪ What to my surprise,
♪Appeared before my eyes…
♪Once all the grass & weeds were cleared away…
Fired up the weed whipper and started in the southeast corner of the north-side backyard – confused yet?   Before I got really to work, took a pic of one of the plants that grows here and there on my place, that sort of look like Nasturtiums, but aren’t and I thought might be Creeping Raspberry after reading the post by fellow blogger over at My Food and Flowers.
(Thanks for offering to help identify – most likely a weed, but hate rip out if it isn’t… 🙂 )
Then I realized that either the salsify or Welsh Onions I companion planted with the hastily built beds for strawberry plants received last year (1 – one stinking strawberry plant survived out of..like..138 of em’….) are coming along nicely – – Think it’s the onions, but after looking at pictures for both salsify and welsh onions, content to wait and see what kind of bloom appears, or wait and dig one up, so I’ll know…for sure…
And the other bed, which was planted with strawberries, welsh onions and 3 various types of lettuce last year have zilch, nada, oh -wait – there’s some volunteer lettuce… 🙂
The man-child-unit stopped his mowing activities and called out to me,
“Mom – do you want me to mow around this?  Is it a keeper?”
To which I replied,
“I have no clue what it is, but it’s pretty – mow around it and I’ll see if I can find out what it is….”
Here and there, mushrooms are popping up – some local wild ones are edible, some are not, need to call Mr. Gardener Extraordinaire to have him come identify which ones are which:
After the man-child-unit got one side cleared, decided to take a grand-sweeping picture of no-longer-such-a-jungle against the backdrop of my Golden Currants and Sand Cherries planted last month:
And here’s a close-up of the Golden Currants and Sand Cherry bed –
Remember 2 years ago, when I finished the north side of the house on grading/mulching, weeding just before the gully washer storm appeared?
And 20 minutes after I collapsed on the couch from exhaustion:
Well, back to the north side – – the Vinca and Ground Elderberry are coming along nicely – a nice ground cover that is still not clearly identified, but plays nice and puts up beautiful spikes of purple, that was carefully left alone has now spread from it’s little corner located about 25 feet away to move it’s way to being a beautiful ground cover across the entire north side of the house:
And, a pretty, I didn’t plant it there, white tulip raises it’s long head over another clump of purple vinca
And finally, a shot of one of the Chokecherry bushes:
Oh, and remember how I left my Amaranth of last fall to naturally drop it’s seed?
Well, I despaired my lazy plan had worked, but noticed today there are tiny burgundy amaranth sprigs poking their heads up out of the ground – I forgot to take a pic and it’s raining/lightening again – so will try to remember to do so tomorrow.
Happy Green Growing Things Season! 🙂
Stumbled across some cool short videos that encapsulate the issues I’ve witnessed for years – – Have fun laughing to real life over the next 5-6 minutes.
(BTW – the second “out-takes” video – you’ll get to hear a rousing rendition of Barbara Ann, a cappella…
Chris is always posting his finds, sharing his knowledge or starting great conversations/opportunities for the Indie Author world – Chris, thanks for all you do to support Indie Author World! 🙂
Marketing books is hard. I will try to help.
I have a few book promotion opportunities for authors.
Participation is FREE.
I have a page on my Read Tuesday website called Meet the Characters.
On this page, readers find short creative pieces featuring one of the characters from various books.
The idea is that readers can learn about books without first seeing the cover or price.
Their first taste of the book is a character’s personality and the author’s writing style.
Many authors and readers have expressed positive feedback about this idea.
(If you like the idea, please tell a friend.)
But we need more authors to participate. Signing up is free.
The earlier you participate, the better the reader-to-book ratio works in your favor.
Once submissions grow enough, Meet the Characters will grow onto multiple pages, different pages…
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I’m deep in research/conference calls, etc., this week, as rural businesses, governments & organizations hit Spring Fever and after months (or years) of quiet desperation, decide they are ready – NOW!
There is always some new, bright shiny object to try out – – set-up, implementation and maintenance cost for each option can differ wildly –
Ran across this video, recently, which made me laugh…
And I, in my skewed perspective, think it perfect illustration of what happens when you have cool technology and no idea how to effectively use it…