East of Steps: Daffodil 'Tweety Bird'
On Monday morning my general helper asked to come on Friday instead, so I didn’t have to set up for making chicken stock. I got the kitchen cleaned up and worked on the seedlings. The kale is up, but no onions and leeks. This is a bit worrying as I think I was using last year’s seed. Allium seed doesn’t last much past a year.
My neighbor picked me up at 9:10AM and we headed to exercise class.
These are my instructors. They take turns doing the class. I made it through class and came home. I finished the seedlings and watered them and some house plants before having lunch.
The Senior bus picked me up at 12:45PM for this entomology talk by a professor at Hampshire College. He’d brought lots of specimens of all types of insects, books on insects, and microscopes for looking at tiny parasitic wasps.
“An agricultural ecologist and entomologist who does research at the Hampshire College Farm Center, Schultz has spent a number of years in Central America and the Caribbean studying methods of insect pest control.”
He was very interested in using parasitic insects to control pests on crops. He also is interested in reducing inputs for farmers and creating better markets for their produce. I would have liked to stay longer after his talk, but I had an appointment at home for 2:30PM, so the bus brought me back.
It’s still pretty cold and windy so no outside work at all, it looks like for the rest of the week.
New East: Jonquil bud
I rested for the afternoon and then went to the barn for chores.
The deer were obviously very upset by my appearance. I went back to the house and got the camera and back to the barn.
Very perturbed by my photography, as you see.
These Chiondoxa lucilliae are right at the corner of the New South garden where the walkway to the front porch ends. I decided to wander around the house to see what else was opening.
New West: #4 crocus
East Shed: #5 Chiondoxa forbesii ‘Blue Giant’
East Shed: #8 Chiondoxa forbesii ‘Blue Giant’
On Tuesday I have 2 appointments and I hope to spend the rest of the day finishing the plant notes. I’m sick of the mess the office is in because of them spread everywhere. My brother and I plan to make 