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Video of Treating Blueberries for pests using Neem oil

9 Jun 2019 1 minute read 5 comments Solominer

Link to Video   Growing plants outside means pests throughout the year will try to set up home in the bushes and on the fruit im trying to grow. I recently found some spider mites growing on my blueberries. Luckily ive dealt with them before and use...

Infrared Photography - Blueberry plant producing leaves and little flowers

23 May 2019 2 minute read 2 comments Solominer

I see more and more flowers every year with these blueberry plants. Every flower is a potential blue berry, though they have a long transformation ahead of them before they are ready. Luckily the bees were hard at work pollinating all of them.    ...

Honey Bees getting nectar and pollen from Leatherleaf Mahonia flowers Part 2

22 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer

This evergreen shrub is now native to Georgia, though originally from China and was brought over by boat a long time ago and some how got into the wild and established itself. Its been here for a long time as it was also collected by the Lewis and Cl...

Prepping and Planting Yukon Gold Potatoes left over from the winter

18 May 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Solominer

During the winter, I collected Potatoes that sprouted before I could get to cooking them. After saving a half dozen I waited till the frost was over and cut them into chunks leaving the eyes on each piece. Theres also a little sweet potato in the bi...

Infrared Photography - Rhododendron buds opening up Part 2

1 May 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer

I really enjoy the flowers of this plant, and its widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains. So when I go hiking up in the mountains I tend to come across them in the wild.   These photos are my posts for #macroshot    Camera...

Infrared Photography - New growth on Peach tree

30 Apr 2019 2 minute read 3 comments Solominer

Branches I cut in the fall usually have new growth on them by February and well before the last freeze is over for the region. The leaves seem to be okay with the frosts but the flowers are not.     Camera Model Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for...

Triffid - MondoWorks Sketchbook

13 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments kennbmondo

The triffid is a fictitious tall, mobile, prolific and highly venomous plant species, the titular antagonist in John Wyndham's 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids and Simon Clark's 2001 sequel The Night of the Triffids. The name was originally spelle...

🏡 Garden in Macro

11 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments valerianis

If you love plants and flowers, then this post is for you. I show some close-up shots of what's growing in my garden. Can you guess all these edible plants? They look so different when you zoom in! Macro shots make everything look fantastic. *** Th...

An autumn walk in the park, Polish golden autumn

31 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

=================Photo: Panasonic Lumix FZ82, 31 October 2020, Silesia Park, Poland© Copyright marianomarianoall photos and video were taken by me and are my property

Help me to identify the Plant 02

21 Sep 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Chadayan

Can you help me to find the details of this plant? I would like to know Common names in English Scientific name If you know the name in any other languages Where can we find this I know this is a cactus. But do you know the exact name? Thank you a...