Ok, so most of the previous post was written last night and posted early this morning. Today I made some bug spray with castile soap and water. I plucked all the nascent flower buds off the jalapeños and will spray them and my herbs tonight after the pollinators have retired for the day (speaking of which, I wonder why I have yet to see a honeybee on the abundant clover in the side yard when I have a neighbor who keeps bees). I already sprayed the new pepper pots indoors, because they had been sitting in the shed and had a few bugs hovering around them. I gave the rather sparse grass in the "bare corner" a little water to tide them over until tomorrow's expected rain - which is supposed to last off and on for four days. If the rain is going to be light, I may overseed in there again and try to get the grass growing a little thinker. I fear it's a losing battle, though. I wonder what kind of ground cover I can get that's shade, flood, drought, and dog tolerant....
I put out the hummingbird feeder today, having seen a hummer come looking for flowers two days in a row. The birds never seemed to figure out the feeder last year, but I saw one siping today. Then it went out of my sight near the salvia. Success! The hummers should like the daylilies too, when they bloom. I need to plant some early bloomers for next year, and something that will bloom into the fall and provide some fuel for their migration.
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