Dandelions Deserve Better
than the title weeds. Christened
with chemicals, spores fly
on mouths of wishes, migrating
over fields to land
in full yellow bloom, until someone
has a baby and its head pops off.
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April Salzano has published with WIZ before, thus far about Nature’s underdogs. For a bio, look here.
Photo by Rene Mensen (Alias 0591) via Wikimedia Commons.
About a week ago, I finally finished planting my garden. I ran late (as usual) setting out some seedlings and all three attempts to start my typical heirloom tomato lineup from seed ran afoul of greens-craving kittens and rough winds. So I bought hothouse starts, which as of this date are doing well, except for two Romas suffering attacks from tomato hornworms. Last year, European paper wasps kept my tomatoes hornworm-free, but the harsh, snowbound winter appears to have killed off a lot of the fertilized queens. I’m very sorry to say we haven’t anywhere near the European paper wasp population that we had last year. The garden will no doubt suffer on account of this deficiency of wasps. Continue reading “Le Jardin 2010”
Wilderness Interface Zone 