Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

Sunday, July 07, 2019

Home Made Daylily Hybrid. Jul 7, 2019

This is the first bloom on this new hybrid. I did not keep track. I think it was an unnamed ochre colored daylily, crossed with Chicago-something, a red flower. Some of my home made hybrids are ugly. I like this one very much.

First Potato Harvest. Jul 7, 2019

Kennebeck Potatoes. 7.7.19

Some of the potato tops are dying off. so I dug them up. Nice crop for Kennebec and Red Norland so far. Ready to make potato salad.

The first of the Russets didn't look like much. There may be some in the rows yet to harvest.

Red Norland Potatoes. 7.7.19

Edit:

I made potato salad using Kennebecs. I didn't it, too dry. I have using the daily for baked potatoes. For that purpose, they are truly delicious. I puncture multiple times with a fork, brush with olive oil, back on a piece of aluminum foil at 400 F for 30 min, turn, bake another 30 min.

Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Tansy Ragwort and Cinnebar Moth Larvae. 7.3.19

Very cool to look at. I try to keep ahead of weeds, especially the toxic and invasive Tansy Ragwort. However, sometimes I miss them at the edge of the property, until I see them bloom.

This time, I see the cinnebar moth caterpillars having a feast on tansy ragwort flower heads.

I will leave the plants in place until the caterpillars are done, then pull the plants out.

Friday, June 21, 2019

Squash, Potato, and Sweet CornZucchini Plants. 6.21.19

Potato Plants. 6.21.19

Most of the kitchen garden is looking pretty good. I dug a couple of potato plants today, ones that had dried up looking leaves. The vast majority are not ready yet. The summer squashes and zucchinis have early flower buds. The sweet corn is irregular, with some large and some small plants, but the large ones are looking robust.