Signs of spring. Chinese ground orchid (bletilla), grow bag of daffodils, Nun's orchid

Grow Maruba Santoh they said. It’s just like lettuce they said…

Mark_Thompson wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:51 am Grow Maruba Santoh they said. It’s just like lettuce they said…


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Now that will feed your family! Nice.

Is the texture more like lettuce or cabbage and how does it taste?

@MissS Texture is kind of in between the two, flavor is super mild like lettuce. That head was seven pounds Made some lettuce wraps last night, perfect because you can wrap them huge like a burrito. I’ll be saving the leafy stuff to use for salads and sandwiches and making kim chee with the white crunchy stuff.

Mark_Thompson wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 9:49 amI’ll be saving the leafy stuff to use for salads and sandwiches and making kim chee with the white crunchy stuff.

The 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT! would like a word....

The Gotch

Signs of spring..


Grow bag of daffodils:

Wild oxalis; it pops up in all the flower beds. I leave a lot of it where it is because it's a bee favorite and sometimes food for the pollinators is scarce in early spring.

Chinese ground orchid or Bletilla:


A large pot of alyssum, a bee favorite:


A part of nemesia, a pollinator magnet:

Those pink Oxalis are sweet, Donna. We have a tiny weed in the beds here, white or yellow flowers only. They are sweet too.

First of hopefully many Calendula blooms. I figured these would be begin blooming by March 1.

Poking through the dirt:

Asiatic lilies Gladiolas In-ground amaryllis (will bloom around Easter)
The Chinese fringe flower and the Bradford pear are in bloom:

This Monarch butterfly caterpillar decided to make its chrysalis on the back of a patio chair:

This chrysalis is about to hatch. The chrysalis is almost clear and you can clearly see the wing of the Monarch.
"Sugary" cherry tomato plant is the first to have a flower:

A Monarch just "hatched" minutes ago. You can see the empty and broken chrysalis beside the newly born butterfly. Welcome to the world. It will not be able to fly until it's wings are dry.
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