Some Gardening and a Mesquite Tree
Howdy, loyal readers.
My little garden is doing very well. I have so many little green cherry tomatoes I can’t count them all, I have Anaheim and jalapeņo chiles coming out both ears (not literally), and everything else is super happy. I am really glad that I chose the spot I did for the garden this year. It’s obviously a good spot! Here are some photos from the garden:
…and the whole garden: 
Another new development in my plant menagerie is a Mesquite tree. My mom gave me some Mesquite seed pods about a year ago, and I hadn’t really thought about them since then. I was just recently cleaning off my potting table, and there they were, begging to be planted. I opened one, and put 1 seed into a small container with suitable dirt, watered it well, and put a lid on it. 5 days later, up popped a small Mesquite tree! I was surprised how quickly it germinated. It has grown quite a bit since then, and I have removed the lid, so it gets air circulation. I put a nice piece of screen over it to 1) protect it from the sun, and 2) protect it from the millions of voracious grasshoppers that are invading my yard now.
Here are some photos of my little Mesquite tree.
Under the screen: 
Several others: 
If you take a closer look at that last one, you can see that it is now getting its first set of the nice ferny little leaves that adult Mesquite trees have:
As always, all photos are clickable thumbnails. Thanks for visiting!
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