Look up at the top picture, the cardoon came back. Look down at the lower picture, the minnow daffodil bloomed.

Rainwater Harvesting.

Spent the morning with my MG group. We had a lively meeting and a great educational program. We have a rainwater harvesting demonstration at the Xeric Garden in Forney, Tx. Our president showed us the ins and outs of installing, using, and maintaining a 550 gallon tank. It is fed from the guttering of the building. It has a bypass that takes the first run off of a rain and puts it into another tube essentially washing out the leaves and such. This keeps gunk out of the tank. Only one half an inch of rain will fill our tank. The water is distributed by gavity feed with a hose attached. There is also a pump that creates water pressure. This eventually will feed soaker hoses or drip irrigation. As bad as the drought was two years ago, we are all looking for ways to be better stewards of our water. I still need to take a picture of Nancy's hillbilly rainwater collection system.

Blotanicals

Okay. I joined this group today and it is fun. Really interesting blogs. I even found one with great music.

Monkey

Okay, here is a repeat of my greenhouse monkey. This is the monkey picture of all monkey pictures. This proves I am not making this stuff up.

Green house monkey

Okay, I grew that giant cabbage. Now what do I do with it. I am tempted to try to make sauerkraut again, but I have failed more than once. I was trying to use the tougher outer leaves that are really green instead of light inner leaves. I will make cabbage soup then I may shredd it for kraut. Any suggestions? Yes there is more where that came from.

Look what I grew