Zucchini — males, females and pollination
In a permaculture garden are likely plenty of insects to pollinate the female flowers. However, you need both male and female flowers and if you don’t have enough insects, you can hand pollinate.
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Category: The gardens
June garden pictures
My garden on June 5, 2022. The best part about permaculture is that once established, many plants turn into weeds and instead of planting seeds, you just pull or cut what you don’t want.
Read MoreBees and hummingbird moths love the plum and nectarine flowers
After a cold and windy spring, we just had the first couple WARM days. I love watching and listening to the insects pollinating the fruit trees. So many insects pollinated the plum tree:...
Read MoreThe rose in our French Garden in full bloom
What a nice surprise! This rose has been rather neglected since our French WWOOFer Yael planted it a couple years ago when she built this little garden with stuff we had laying around. I’ll make an effort to take pictures...
Read MoreNew Year's SNOW in the Joshua Tree desert! (pictures)
We haven’t had any significant snow since 2008 and it was a real treat to get about 4 – 5 inches of snow on New Year’s Eve. It snowed all day and at least until about 1 am when we were driving home from a...
Read MoreGarden pics: veggies, berries, flowers …
Despite massive gopher damage, it’s actually looking really good in our gardens. We have more peppers than expected, several Anaheim peppers, jalapenos, Black Hungarian and one plant with lots of flowers, but no peppers...
Read MoreLettuce and wild flowers
Been so incredibly busy, but here are a few pics. I transplanted some lettuce from the beds to...
Read MoreStriata d'Italia zucchini
We just harvested another zucchini: Got the seeds at Baker Creek. Unfortunately, all the plants from our first planting along the fence and in the three sisters bed got eaten by critters (we relocated a number of packrats and...
Read MoreGrowing bamboo or reeds in the high desert
I've been reading a lot about the benefits of bamboo in permaculture books: It grows fast, provides a wind break, privacy screen and wildlife habitat. You can eat it and you can use the stalks for mulch, plant stakes, etc....
Read MorePurslane — NOT a weed!
For years I wondered what that weed was that always grew even if none of the flower seeds germinated. I remember having pots full of this “weed” and it grows everywhere we water. Here's an interesting article...
Read MoreCattail uses and recipes
Found this interesting page on how to harvest cattails and recipes: Cattails (Typha species) The cattail is one of the most important and common wild foods, with a variety of uses at different times of the year. Whatever you...
Read MoreThe new veggie cattail bee pond
Is there a word for tiny ponds, like pondlet? I got to work right away yesterday and built the little cattail pond. The hardest part was moving a bunch of sheet rock and backer board so I could get to the bentonite in the...
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