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PREPARING FLOWER BED FOR MORNING GLORIES AND USING SOME OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES ON OUR FARM

Last year was the first time @farm-mom grew Morning Glories. What a splendid flower.

These flowers grow on a climbing vine that can reach 15 feet. The flower is so very delicate. When it blossoms, it looks like this for just a day and by the next morning it's on it's way out.
A steady stream of between six and a dozen of these flowers come to life every morning.

The two of us were pleasantly surprised to see the vines produce flowers all summer long. With blue being my favorite color, this extraordinary blossom quickly became one of my favorite flowers.

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With the seeds in hand it was time for me to get busy turning the bed.

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As I turned over the first shovel full of earth, this is what I dug up.

I'm not sure how I didn't cut this, what ever it is, in half. Weird looking for sure with those yellow spots. It laid there and showed very little sign of life. It looked extra slime and there was no way I was going to pick it up. I scooped it up in the shovel. It seemed to be baking in the sun and I wanted to move it to a shady moist area. As I was transporting the darn thing, it came to life, trying to slither off of the shovel. I placed this strange creature under a root ball of a fallen tree.

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With that excitement over, I got back to preparing the bed.

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Last year we grew peas in this bed along with the Morning Glories. This year only the vines from this magical flower will be reaching for the heavens.

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With that little project completed I knew it would not be long before the flower child was planting her seeds.

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Next up on Robin's Honey Do List was relocating this piece of stone that we had unearthed on the property, several decades ago.

This perfectly flat piece of bluestone has made the rounds and I hope this new location will be its final resting spot. It makes a unique little table and has been adorned with flowers at every location.

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#Natural #Resources are plentiful on the farm and with some serious hobbitizing rocks can be gathered and used for many projects. I will be using these large rocks that I set aside a few years ago to build the pedestals to support the bluestone.

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It takes a little fenagling to set the stones so that they are level.

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Moving right along.

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Robin's sunflowers should like this location. With eight/ten hours of sunlight a day working its magic, by the middle of July, these babies should be as tall as Robin.

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Next project please, I'm raring to go!

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