Archive for June 2008
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Helpful Homeschool Kitty Communitcates
Our pet, Koko, the kitty on this page: Homeschool Musts for Kids (not really musts, just in fun) is a patient and helpful cat. Most of the time, around 95% of the time, he leaves one morsel in his bowl so that I will know what to put in his bowl. He is such a […]
Planting Sweet Potatoes
Tuesday I bought 9 Beauregard sweet potato plants from a local store. I haven’t grown sweet potatoes in a very long time. This afternoon I started digging the bed for the plants. Sweet potatoes like a hot sunny place, so I decided to put them in a location that is already taken.
The plants in the […]
Life of a Lady Beetle
The photographs here show the life of Lady Beetles - Coleoptera: Coccinellidae. If you see any of the bugs that are pictured above and below in your trees, bushes, or plants, please do not kill them. Ladybugs are good bugs. They eat aphids.
— - Aphid Lion (lady beetle larva) — -
The first picture is the ladybug larva. It […]
March - May 2008 Updates
I finally posted an update to the dy yahoo group. This is a copy of the update. The update covers the past 3 months of additions. Perhaps not all of the changes, but mainly just the additions to donnayoung.org.
Some of these items have already been announced at this blog and of those, I’ll link the […]
Compost Experiment II
Yesterday the compost pile had cooled to 38 ºC (100 ºF). That is not hot enough for this experiment. I suspect that the grass clippings are too dry. This afternoon, I removed the cover. It seemed that only the damp parts of the pile were heating and the outer parts were indeed too dry. While […]
