Dragonflies everywhere!

In the summer our backyard is a buzz with hoards of hovering dragonflies! Its largely due to a nice little pond we built and all of the flowers and such which draw in more then enough for 1000s of dragonflies to consume. This is perfectly fine with us because the guys have a special place in our harts, something of a spiritual creature in our own little mythos. I drew one that landed on a stalk of corn a while back and I'm missing my backyard friends right now so I post while we sit moving firmly into Spring here.

I have also suddenly realized that I have never posted my art work here and it seems especially remiss since I list sketching as one of my blogs interests AND the drawing is garden related. Time to get on that eh? I have a few more garden related works to post so more will follow!

GardenDroid Update 1 week later!

Well its been over a week since I planted the spinach in the my experimental mini-greenhouse and things are on the grow! As one would hope and expect the plants have germinated and up came some lovely 2" sprouts. This should happen with soil and moisture so I really can't credit the Droid with that bit of progress really but I will say that the container made a perfect humid and moist seed starter! If you need to start a bunch of seeds then a plastic storage bin might be a good option, especially if you have a few empty ones laying around after cleaning out the garage like I do!

Here's the little sprouts doing their thing after 7 days. The cord in the way is the soil moisture sensor cable.

I'll probably give the plants a week or two before thinning or transplanting the seedlings, I like to make sure they are growing well and I have another location to move some of the seedlings to so why pinch them off, might as well give them a chance elsewhere.  More to come!