Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

[bruceha2000]

Glad you didn't get rid of it @cavemanrich ! I figured it was related to the tomato hornworm. Would have fed it to the chickens.

 

[Leahs Mom]

I think the ones on the dill are black swallowtail.

 

[sharron]

Glad you didn't get rid of it @cavemanrich ! I figured it was related to the tomato hornworm. Would have fed it to the chickens.

thats what i thought they were but got to looking at them and thought that the tomato worms had a tail and just slightly different colored, so i came over to the computer from the garden to make sure what i had and its the swallowtail so i took the five i had in a jar and turned them loose back on the carrot fronds,kept checking them for weeks until they disappeared , hoping to see them next year as butterflies.

 

[cavemanrich]

I think the ones on the dill are black swallowtail.

You are most likely 99.44% correct, since I did see those butterflies flying around my potted plants all summer. Thanks.

 

[sharron]

You are most likely 99.44% correct, since I did see those butterflies flying around my potted plants all summer. Thanks.

we have the blacks too but most of what i see are the yellows so now i wonder what i had, maybe some of both

 

[JanetMarie]

This is what I do once the leaves fall. Mower on mulch and there is nothing to rake up. I also do bag up some quantity and place as a mulch blanket over my flower beds. In Springtime the blanket provides an easy means for flowers to sprout thru. When I did not shred before loading onto flower beds, my results were less than Ideal. The leaves matted flat and acted as a covering , rather than a nice grow thru medium.
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Here is another interesting creature on my Dill. There were about 6 or more. Of course I did not remove them . THEY ARE JUST TOOOOO CUTE.
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Pretty sure it is a MOTH variety rather than a BUTTERFLY.
I have enough dill so I don't mind sharing.

I think that is a Monarch butterfly caterpillar. Dill is a feeder plant for the larvae. There are some like that or very similar that feed on my milkweeds.

 

[sharron]

I think that is a Monarch butterfly caterpillar. Dill is a feeder plant for the larvae. There are some like that or very similar that feed on my milkweeds.

yes, we have the monarchs here too but don't see them to often up here in the lawn, but they do go to the field behind the pasture, milkweeds back there, not sure what their caterpillars look like, as for the dill, i try not to have it in the garden, if any comes up i usually hoe it up (its been many years since mil planted dill for pickles and shes been gone since 2012)

 

[Jpiggle1]

Please more pictures of raised bed types. Straw bale and wood. I have lupus with arthritis and fibromyalgia so any idea pictures would help

 

[Jpiggle1]

After my first knee replacement last year we converted my free formed raised beds into really raised beds. They were so easy to garden in.

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My cucumbers were grown on a cattle panel arch for extra easy picking.

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That cattle f

 

[Jpiggle1]

That cattle f

Oops the cattle fencing looks like a great way to keep the chickens out of the veggies maybe?