Nights are now consistently above 50F. Yay! Tomatoes will start to ripen. Flowers are popping, on produce plants and on their own. This is my first year growing chamomile for tea. It should self-seed at the end of the season also. Cool thing is that you pick a handful to dry, and in two days four times what you picked is produced! Pine siskins are eating the tassels on the corn. We’ll see what that does to the production of ears of corn. But, hey, it’s habitat first; people food after.

Along that line: did you know that the oft’ maligned and dreaded tomato horn worm is, of course, a caterpillar of a moth or butterfly. And, drum roll, it matures into a humming bird moth! Important pollinator, amazing moth, beautiful to behold. Well, I encountered my first “worm” on a tomato plant. It was clearly near the size to begin its pupating, which they do under ground. It didn’t eat much; there are plenty of tomato plants; and it’s habitat!