Snail's Pace Garden-
Tomatoes
The first tomatoes of the 2011 growing season. The lovely ladies at Gemmell's Garden Centre gave me a container tomato plant. I don't like tomatoes by themselves, but I do like them in salsa and other sauces.
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Ivy roots
Ivy roots that took over a hanging container of mine. It was so frustrating trying to divide the Wandering Jew and ivy plants that I finally had to give up.
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Lily pads
I saw lots of wildlife and flora and fauna during my walks this summer along the Rideau Canal. Among the flora were these lonely lilypads living near an old, dead tree.
Recent happenings on the blog
Garden at Work: How to Build a Raised Vegetable Bed
Follow Adriana Martinez and Fern Richardson as they head to Epitaph headquarters to build a raised bed vegetable garden for their employees to enjoy.
What's That Bug?
I'm going to add a link to Snail's Pace Garden's resources area to What's That Bug? by Daniel Marlos. I've used this site to identify a number of critters in my yard. Daniel has also written a book called The Curious World of Bugs,
Prodigal Summer: A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place.