youtu.be/eye6J2-H17g?... Joe Salatin Q & A.

Treated birds with fresh popcorn. The marauding European starling come in & bust it up, then little birds clean up. No sign of crows. Their nests have fledged.

Thinning Walla Walla Sweets; sharing w/ great grandma- pacific islander. She's making pea soup. 😋 Urban guerilla gardening-take harvest when you can.

G’nite from #BrookSide Senior Living. Plumbing the depths of a petunia! #GardenGrewPeas #Gardening 🌱

www.almanac.com/content/merc... Mercury Retrogtade & farming, an explanation or just it makes your head spin like the planet below? Also a full moon going into a 3rd quarter Capricorn. ♑️ let that stew.

#OnThisDay in 1909, a trainload of suffragists arrived in Spokane, en route to the AYP Exposition in Seattle. historylink.org/File/8522

Meadowlark Monday! A Western Meadowlark puffs out its chest & angrily looks ready to take on the week. www.prairiewanderlust.etsy.com #photography #nature #grasslandbirds #birds #northdakota #prairie

Pink Wizard of Oz dahlia, Halifax Public Garden, Nova Scotia, Canada #PinkMon #MacroMonday #LetItBloomJune #BloomScrolling

Black sheep squadron (about a dozen crows) chasing a bald eagle. Shot with a cell phone.

If you all remember the girl scout roses. I rescued one but I left the other. New gardeners ripped it out a year ago spring. I looked everywhere. Gone. Today talking with a pacific islander woman & she's telling me a story about a rose she found. Presumed dead. She took it home.

Beautiful rain falling as cooler conditions will continue as we approach the 4th of July. Not sure how this bodes for the garden, but we are content knowing we've done all we can. Let's the chips fall where they may.

50 years ago today, Oliver's opened in the Mayflower Park Hotel as the first "daylight bar" in Seattle. historylink.org/File/20320

A little freaked out when I noticed this young volunteer, with a bud, the other day. A closer look Thursday, reveals multiple flowers. Plucked from a nearby plot, these genetics now over a decade old, for the most part, are good. An occasional poor flower color, but fingers crossed.

My first a i image. Mama (Vicki Lawrence) from the Carol Burnett show. Notice the geritol banner at the scorers table. Carol and Harvey Korman look on.

Astilbe, hydrangea & glorious daisy (?) Galardia (?) On this morning's walk.

This woman's dahlias resounding on a cloudy day. This shot in mixed clouds n sun.

Well the three sisters is now two sisters as the pole beans failed. One and two year old seed. We weeded and mulched. Funny, a dog walker donated bush bean seeds. I broadcast them in former garlic bed, & their up in 3 days. 🤪

Trying to find pure epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) without all the lavender, eucalyptus and so on, is difficult. The world's largest retailer, had it in a small bag on the bottom shelf 🙄

Echinacea for Solstice day. 🌱

Great blue lobelia (Campanulaceae: Lobelia siphilitica) thrives in swamps and floodplain forests in most of eastern North America. The tubular flowers encourage insects to dig deep for nectar, ensuring pollination. Pinckney State Recreation Area near Chelsea Michigan, 18 Aug 2012.

Happy Summer Solstice!

Father's Day was conceived by Spokane's Sonora Smart Dodd it was celebrated for the first time in Spokane #OnThisDay in 1910. www.historylink.org/File/9458

#OnThisDay in 1923, The Seattle Times fired E. B. White. The future essayist blamed himself. historylink.org/File/3467

Not a cloud in the sky today. Fertilizer has gone up about 25%-30% over last year.

Three sisters. Some wee corn, both May sowed & June sowed, a handful of squash. No beans. Two sowings. I've grown beans in my main plot for years & do not need inoculent . These however, in a new plot, making me regret not doing so. So we wing it from here.

#OnThisDay in 1846, in the Treaty of Oregon, Britain and the United States agreed on the 49th parallel as the main Pacific Northwest boundary. historylink.org/File/5247

still thinking about the time my brother made my food-allergic nephew a birthday dino-cake out of watermelon. 10/10 no notes.

A company built a high budget chicken coup at the vice president's residence for free. All that for a hundred bucks worth of eggs. Compared to my humble abode, this is Ritz Carlton vs motel 6. My dinosaurs raising dinosaurs quip on twitter didn't receive any play.

We received almost 1.5 inches of much needed rain Tuesday. I re sowed three sisters. If this doesn't work, I ordered 5 lb of buckwheat seed and we'll sit in the shade all summer and sip lemonade. "If life is a bowl of cherries, why do I get the pits." ~Erma Bombeck

This pic doesn't show the size of the taters and sunflower in this plot. This allotment known for its massive volunteer multiheaded varieties. They've adapted to site and conditions nicely.

Family from Tunisia 🇹🇳 grow a bunch of bush beans. Beans are a staple in their diet. Nothing goes to waste.

On today's 75th anniversary of the State of Washington's acquisition of the Black Ball Line, a look at Black Ball's magnificent 1930s Art Deco ferry terminal, with the famed Silver Slug, the M/V Kalakala, coming into dock in the background: @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov

At the allotment, about 90% rented, which is good and getting some work out of the millennials, which is somewhat surprising. Things must be tough all over.

@aliceinw.bsky.social how's things holding up Ms. Evelyn? I see active weather in your neck of the woods.

G’nite, rained all day. Yarrow is bursting with yellow! Love it! #GardenGrewPeas #Gardening #

#OnThisDay in 1935, a building collapse killed one and injured 32 during Yakima's Frontier Days celebration. historylink.org/File/10300

Three Sisters, one bowl 🌽🫘🎃 — honoring Native American roots with a bright, simple #Succotash recipe. Corn, beans & squash come together for a nourishing summer side. 🌞 Read more: ramblersroostcookery.com/blog/f/three... #ThreeSisters #NoAIRecipes #RamblersRoostCookery #RambleOn

Thinking of trying the three sisters, one more time. A i suggests blue lake pole beans. I've tried it with BLP before and the beans took over. I have BLP, multicolored sweet corn & delicata. We'll give it a go.

Happy mother's day. Take time to think of or spend time with her.

Greetings from #BrookSide Senior Living. REALLY wish I had brought the iris from Rabbit Cottage with me! #GardenGrewPeas #Gardening 🌱

@marymolitierbo.bsky.social I follow your weather Mary. It's crazy. 80 for a few days then boom, 32°f gardeners in you4 Valley need th3ir wits!

House finch pair are here. Singing & the female is nest building in the neighbor's Thuja occidentalis Pyramidalis (aka green gas can). The male has a red breast and basically hangs out, allowing the female to do all the work.

#OnThisDay in 1988, Kurt Cobain posted a "Drummer Wanted" ad in The Rocket magazine. historylink.org/File/10378

Bouquet of hawthorn branches from my friend. So lush and gorgeous.

#OnThisDay in 1861, the steamer Cortez reached Portland with news of the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. historylink.org/File/9892

Mountain bluet (Centaurea montana) is a herbaceous perennial. I've incorrectly called it love in a mist. Member of the bachelor button family.

Since ancient times, 30 April, the eve of Saint Walpurga’s feast day and May Day, has been linked with spring festivals and fertility rites. Homes were adorned with rosemary and birch, and St. Walpurga invoked to keep malevolent forces at bay. #FairytaleTuesday #WalpurgisNacht

#OnThisDay in 1912, the steamship Alameda crashed into Seattle's Colman Dock. historylink.org/File/766

Greetings from #BrookSide Senior Living. Tiny little buds on the heucharia this morning! Every day a garden adventure! #GardenGrewPeas #Gardening 🌱

Last of the cherries to bloom. Last but not least, as the old saying goes.