u/snownative86

Haven't seen this one before..

It's almost overwhelming. But my office is going to reek of this orchid for a bit and I am so for it. It's only the second time it has flowered in the nearly 3 years I've had it. And I have 2 more flowers still opening! As it hardens off the flowers will turn white and draw more contrast. It popped open this morning.

Nit your everyday items for sale 🤣

Everything in it is grown from seed and is flowers for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds etc. My efforts to bring in more wildlife in a major metro area is working! We have hummingbirds much more frequently, I've made friends with a scrub jay, butterflies are finally venturing into the backyard and lizards have decided to make my mint their home. This box is out front and I can't wait to see the impact it has now that it is flowering. It's a 6 ft long box made out of recycled pallets and stuffed with around 30 different types of flowers from sunflowers to poppy to nastartium, zinnia, wallflower, coneflower, black eyed susan, snap dragons and more. I planted sunflowers seperately, then the rest was a bowl I mixed together then spread randomly. I haven't thinned and only relocated one black eyed susan so I have it in the back yard. The tallest sunflower is around 6.5 ft so far.

I've been using a similar bench seat extender, but the side walls hung from the hand holds on the ceiling, and I had canvasback door covers. The issues I had were with the side walls being flimsy, and our reactive dog, opening and closing the windows, or even a good gust would unseat the canvasback door covers, leaving the doors exposed to the nails of a 70 lb reactive lab. These new covers use a different system with door covers that swing open with the doors and have a much sturdier and deeper mounting system for the door covers. It also doesn't use velcro for the slits for the seat belts but instead has zippers. So far it seems great! We will just have to see how it holds up with my goobers.

This year I'm trying to be less structured and let things grow. I've created a couple boxes and pots of chaos and wanted to share this little pot my fiancée says is her favorite so far. No clue what I put in it. Just stuff from a bag that had a bunch of random seeds.

I've tried several times over the years to get regular cucumbers to grow and just have not been successful, at all. Lemon cucumbers did great but never slicing or pickling. Today I picked my first one ever, and plucked off the first black raspberry from our plant. I'll admit, the black raspberry was a couple days too early and tart. But I can't wait to eat this cucumber with dinner tonight!

This year we have black raspberry, 2 types of strawberries, cherry tomatoes, black krim tomatoes, 4 types of large pepper from bell to gypsy, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, white grapefruit and a variegated pink lemon.

It's my first full year in 9B and I am taking advantage as much as possible. We rent so everything is in pots and grow bags.

My fiancée is 30 weeks pregnant and wanted hot dogs. So we are having homemade boardwalk fries, roasted zucchini with our first zucchini from the garden and veggies dogs (we try to eat vegetarian weekly). Fries and onions made in some vintage iron.

Adorable weirdos this breed is.

It's not girly! Pictures of some of my gardening. We have flowers, fruits, veggies, berries... So much going on. This year I'm also running with some chaos boxes for the first time. I can't wait to see what they look like in June.