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Random Garden Joy 15: the beauty of beans

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

In addition to flowers, shapes, colors, and scents, Mother Nature created beans! The variety of colors, sizes, and tastes seem as diverse as types of leaves on trees. This season provided a new experience with the beans in my garden: … Continue reading →

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Random Garden Joy 14: Nature’s grace

Posted on October 13, 2025 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

How graceful it all is. The peony lies down. Its autumn leaves as beautiful as its anticipated blooms in June. Returning home from the hospital was to enter a frost-completed garden. It’s season complete and me, too.     Beautiful … Continue reading →

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Random garden joy 13: autumn – shifting gears

Posted on September 16, 2025 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

First, a young monarch butterfly on a purple zinnia. One can observe that its sorting out how to be a new butterfly through its sluggishness and drinking from a flower that is going past its prime, thus not much nectar. … Continue reading →

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Random garden joy 12: babies grow, time passes

Posted on September 2, 2025 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

The Monarch caterpillars are a few weeks old now. Still munching away on the milkweed. The little black pellets are poop. Seems that they are eating well! Hollyhocks, bachelor buttons, mexican hats, and gaillardia are all going by, to the … Continue reading →

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Random garden joy 11: let’s eat!

Posted on August 28, 2025 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

First ear of corn. Yum! This is dwarf sugar corn from Amish seeds. Here’s a short list of yums made from garden bounty. Saag: Indian Saag can be made with almost any leaf green. It freezes well also. Tiki Masala … Continue reading →

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