Donna Young

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For me, it is time to work on a quilt again. I have a 7 day opening to work on it. Last year on June 21, I wrote a blog entry with photos showing where I was at with the quilt. The blog entry is here: As the Petals Unfurl. Shortly after that, I put […]

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 […]

Five days ago, I began mulching the garden. Some of the plants are tall enough to handle the thick layer of mulch that I like to put down. Some plants are not tall enough and they are not mulched yet. We are blessed to have a wooded section in our backyard and that is where […]

Last weekend, my son was in town for something to do with Civil Air Patrol. I asked him to bring his laundry so I could clean it. He normally does this himself, but I do not mind giving him a break and I usually find something that needs mending. This time it was a towel. […]

Over the past few days, I have managed to get my backyard vegetable garden tilled and planted. My garden plant-able area measures 21 feet by 50 feet this year. The garden is a few feet behind my house.
I tilled it April 30th and this is how it looked the next morning.

This year I am planting:

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