Orion's Patch!

Welcome to my patch! 5 years a gardener, I'm always still learning more.

[typhlonectes]

Arctic Foxes 'Grow' Their Own Gardens

The little carnivores' colorful dens provide veritable oases in the tundra, a new study says.

The underground homes, often a century old, are topped with gardens exploding with lush dune grass, diamondleaf willows, and yellow wildflowers—a flash of color in an otherwise gray landscape. 

“They’re bright green and everything around them is just brown,” says Brian Person, a wildlife biologist for the North Slope Borough in Barrow, Alaska. “It pops”…

[nemertea]

I can die happy now that I know this fact.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I am now picturing soft little foxes with watering cans and spades planting and tending to their Fox Gardens

[iguanamouth]

gettin ready for the winter

[orions-patch]

Where have I been, holy cow. Okay. So I kind of disappeared after the Pulse shooting, it hit close to home and I knew I couldn't handle tumblr in the aftermath, so I let that calm down. I haven't quite been back on tumblr full speed with so much going on in the news. My garden is doing its thing, I gave it a good weeding after this photo but it will need a heavy fall clean up. Lettuce is quite bitter this late in the summer apparently. Tomatoes all doing well. Losing my vining plants in the weeds. Everything will be okay. Been busy trying to keep up with commissions and looking for a job in my field. Trying to get back on track mainly. I hope all is well with you guys and I apologize for the radio silence.

[orions-patch]

Kind of wild in here!

[biodiverseed]

Date a person who builds you a greenhouse.

[aliens-bro]

This blog supports the life of honey bees 🐝

[orions-patch]

Peaceful morning rain, everyone is growing well, tomatoes are overdo to go in the ground! I need to drill holes in my makeshift cold frame.

[lesbianshart-deactivated2016082]

why did u reblog a bunch of dirt

cuz this is a pro-dirt blog

[orions-patch]

Out grilling and throwing sticks for my sweet boy.

[orions-patch]

My onions split, more onions!!

[orions-patch]

A lovely late spring day!

[orions-patch]

Also proud of my clematis!

[orions-patch]

Guys I am so proud of my pothos.

[vahsaw]

[brilliantbotany]

I watched another honey bee hive installation recently, and got this great photo of the queen in her transport cage. The white substance in the right side is the sugary fondant, and you can see worker bees trying to get to her through the mesh.

Photo by Brilliant Botany.

[orions-patch]

Super bummed about last night's short notice frost that came through, lost most of my hardening off tomatoes in the open cold frame, and all of my eggplant. Everything else - carrots, onion, brocolli, peas and onions - did just fine. Very glad I did not bring out my huge tray of tomatoes yesterday. So, I drew a cow to cheer me up. I got the Galaxy Note so I've been trying to get the hang of this pen!

[freedomss0n]

[orions-patch]

Brocolli and eggplant is in! Weeds and grass everywhere but I have to remember they support the good bug ecosystem!! I clear out some over time so they don't compete with my plants, but otherwise my garden beds look much more like garden beds compared to last year! The radish ground cover certainly did their job, there's huge spots of clear soil where they out competed the weeds.