Mantises Have Hatched

Sunday morning, June 19. It took almost 10 weeks for the egg case to hatch. Click on photos to enlarge and see detail.


There are many, many little mantises.



I let most of them go in the community garden.






I am taking about a dozen home for our backyard.

First Carrot

Picked accidentally by Mom, but proof that the carrots are growing.

Pumpkin Seedling

New pumpkin seedling (grown from seed) being transplanted into garden plot.

Germinating Seeds, Second Try

100 Cantaloupe seeds.


Placed on paper towels.




Paper towels are sprayed with water.

Bowl of Lettuce Grown from Seed

Baby Bok Choy

Seeds planted in April; crop harvest in June.

Garden Update, Early June

Onions and peas.


Peas.


Lettuce, flowers, tomato.


Watering radishes.


Looking over the fence at our plot.