Home of a Feral Biologist

This summer hasn't been too bad so far. We haven't quite hit 100 yet, and have gotten a few good rains. Yesterday we got about 0.75...

My husband started to get concerned when my dill was eaten down to a nub, so he moved a lot of the parsley worms to the parsley where they...

Well, so much for my perpetual spinach-type Swiss Chard this year. The deer have eaten them down to nubs. Fortunately, they haven't t...

This is what happens when you don't harvest your artichokes. I only got two buds on my one artichoke plant anyway, so I think the g...

The larvae of the Black Swallowtail butterfly are known as "parsley worms" because they feed on members of the Apiaceae family, wh...

I dug up the potatoes on Monday before we got the rainstorm. It was a little disappointing, but that was my fault. I planted a lot of my pot...

Here's one of the things I did with some of the harvest of nice green spring vegetables I got in April and May. I didn't grow a...