Herbicide for Dinner

good article. Herbicide is what's for dinner.

Critters in the garden

 not the best picture, funny roost for the red shouldered hawk in the background

 hawk feather

I love it when Lizzy's tail falls through the cracks when she's sleeping

Epazote

I'm going to try to put more food info on the garden blog. Epazote is an herb that has been used for a long time when cooking up dried beans, e.g. the Mayans used it for cooking black beans. It helps with digestion. Another use is putting a leaf inside of a quesadilla. There are also medicinal uses. Anyway, it grows here and there in the garden.

New cistern with new mural

Some UCSB folks got a grant to install a cistern and GHGP was the beneficiary. It was kind of an ugly green color, but luckily there is a class in the UCSB art department that paints public murals in the community surrounding UCSB.

 Lizzy the art critic

bees, poppies

couple of Lizzy

 I think I prefer the 2nd one but was real happy with this composition

misc, April 2019

 carrots, garlic, poppies. springtime!

crows in agave

flowers, April 2019

 icelandic poppy

 coastal CA poppies

chamomile, coastal CA poppies, black mustard, pineapple guava shrub (flowers on this are pretty and tasty)

the red shouldered hawk

had my good camera with me on Sunday

favas

Spent a couple hours this weekend shelling favas. I eat most of them fresh or frozen, but do dry some. I mostly grow a tan variety, some purple. In one of the purple pods there were a couple that had crossed, so Appaloosa coloration. Sweet!

bee / cactus

Garden member Laurie took these sweet pics

Nikon D600, Nikkor 105mm MF

garden, May 3rd, mostly Kristen's plot

 it's a lizard

 I wanted this image bad but AF was not happy, gotta come back with a tripod and a MF macro lens

 tulip tree, pretty flowers. I like that this one violates the rules of photography - your eyes bounce back and forth between the left and right side of the image

bird eatin' loquats

new lens

Got a 18-300 6.3 Nikon lens, fantastic little guy. My uncle uses it all the time. Gonna try to take more pics in the garden now.

 coastal CA poppy, epazote

 poppy, garlic, arugula

 fuyu persimmon

arugula, poppy, non-native grass