Can you ID what this is? mostly impacting our oaks (severely) – adjacent non-oak trees much less affected.
I have many theories but none of the oak diseases fit well into our symptoms.
Here are some more photos.
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Know and even eat your weeds!
On June - 24 - 2010
I am still trying to identify the weeds that inhabit and terrorize my landscape. Their fecundity is a sight to be seen and I definitely respect it I just wish I could get tomatoes to do the same thing!
Today I am going to show some of my main weeds and identify where I am able.
Pennycress – Thlaspi arvense
Thlaspi arvense (common name Field Penny-cress) is a foetid Eurasian plant having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America. It is also related to the Lepidium species in the cabbage family.
Elderberry Elixir and Swine Flu
On October - 12 - 2009
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(Please refer to this newer post for an update on our personal views on vaccination. We still very much advocate elderberry elixir, just not as the single means of fighting an increasingly virulent H1N1 pandemic)
Early on in the pandemic, a bit less recently, I immersed myself in flublogia. These are long standing flu communities, lots of intellectual capital out there.. people I really admire and who really know what is up with the pandemic (doctors, nurses, epidemiologists, scientists in the field and those not in it – like me, am not a viral biologist).
A healthy ecosystem in an unappealing wrapper
On August - 16 - 2007
In one of my many-a-day strolls through the garden, I was looking at one of the tomato patches, lamenting the loss of most of the leaves on my calabash tomato to some sort of wilt (I hesitate to says its one thing, I am guessing various things are going on here) and I found, hanging from a tomato branch, this caterpillar beset by eggs and what looked like flying ants.
My first reaction was revulsion (OK, that remains my reaction) but I left it there because:
- I could not help myself with wanting to take a shot,
