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How do you find hornworms?

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Sandra’s first raw pea. She had never tried a raw pea until yesterday.

Tao Tao’s first raw pea casing

Snap pea

Young pea

Sunflowers, amaranth, and quinoa

Preying Mantis

Inch Worm

I realized I hadn’t posted any recent images of the garden beds. We have 5 boxes for produce filled with tomatos, lettuce, spinach, jalapeños, habaneros, cucumbers, squash, edamame, sugar snap peas, and french pole beans. We planted broccoli rabe, and broccoli too but it has not done well. It’s too hot for it and went to seed very quickly. I knew it was a cold weather vegetable but I figured I would take my chances.

Here’s a fun fact for you. You know how you see little round spots of light when the sun pokes through tiny holes; well those are pictures. How can you tell, well, you can tell when an eclipse happens. The light in these pictures are all tiny camera obscuras of the eclipse. Each little hole acts as an optic lens; think about it, you have pictures all around you all the time, you just never noticed. Next time you see those little round spots of light creeping through a tree you can think about the fact that you are looking at thousands of little tiny sun pictures.