Kerry’s Garden

It may be hard to see by the photo but this used to be a half barrel FULL of strawberries. That was till the deer got to it. It sits about 10′ from the corner of the house. I believe it was a deer and not a rabbit because on the ground [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I picked up some filmjölk online. I had heard about it before and wanted to give it a try. I have made lots of yogurt in the past but the cultures I had always used required the milk to be heated to a certain point then cooled to [...]

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Ripley and Katticus can get pretty intense when they wrestle. I don’t think either one of them realize what the other is capable of.

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I was out and about this afternoon and ran into this guy on my butterfly bush. I believe it is a Snowberry Clearwing Hummingbird Moth. At first glance I thought it was a rather large bumblebee. I couldn’t get a good look at it’s wings as it never sat still long [...]

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Both of the Nanho blue buddleia (butterfly bush) are in full bloom and the butterflies are loving it.

The flower bed is looking full this year. The spring rains have really done a lot of good. Like pretty much everything around here they really suffered last summer with the drought. Though we picked [...]

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Check out the swallowtail butterfly larva I found a few minutes ago. She is munching down on some parsley. Too cool.

These cherries are from one of two trees I have that are living in buckets. I only purchased them last year and each has put out a little fruit this year. [...]

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I had naively thought that the deer issue last summer had to do with the drought. Not so. Apparently there is at least one deer that has found my garden and enjoys the fruits of my labor on a regular basis. About 4 or 5 of the tomato plants I planted [...]

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