Ladies and Gentlemen, we have peas. Specifically, we have three tiny snow peas. Wow. Wow.They come from flowers, such as the one below:
Now that I've explained the birds and the bees, what do you think is going to come from this flower?
That's right, my leetle frens: a tomato.In other news, Iain has an amusing new-ish behavior. One of his favorite books is a color book in which each page contains a pull-out page. You say, "Blue" and pull out the little page that shows three blue fish. His favorite is "Orange." For that color (incidentally, Will's favorite, in case you haven't been paying attention), the pull-out is a tiger. I say, "Like a TIGER! Roarrr!" and I tickle him.
So the behavior is that he brings you the book, waits while you go through the pages, hardly able to contain his excitement. When you get to orange, and he sees the tiger coming up, he crawls away really fast, giggling and looking over his shoulder, then once he's about 5 feet away he turns around to look. Like, "Ooo! I'm terrified of the scary Tiger, Mommy!"
Little nutter.
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tomatoes and their other nightshade relatives have an interesting mode of pollenation. they are 'buzz' pollenated.
read more here!
http://www.pollinatorparadise.com/Market/nightshades.htm
I didn't need another reason to avoid winter tomatoes (yick!), but now I've got one.
We don't see a lot of small bees here, but there are little wasps and big, lumbering, fattie bees aplenty. And our garden, much of which was planted before we moved here, is a very bee-friendly place, with blooms on shrubs and trees starting very early in the spring and going straight into summer. So we get bees roaming around quite early. That's how we have a ripening lime in late May.
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