Nature Study Garden Update

I noticed this pretty little flower bush growing beside our shed.

Then it started producing berries.

I love yellow and purple together!

My husband said it was nightshade. I Googled and found out that he was right!

I created notebooking pages for the girls and we researched the different varieties of nightshade. We have woody nightshade.

Here’s Tori’s completed page after our research.

Potatoes and tomatoes (among other foods) are in the nightshade family!

Our trumpet vine attracts bees and hummingbirds.

Among the honeybees are black and white bees

and dainty wasps

Our Concord grapes are coming along nicely. Come October, they’ll be purple and ready for juicing and jelly!

Here’s our little garden. Beans are climbing like crazy and I’ve gotten some lovely eggplant and peppers so far. Our sweet peas last month were scrumptious!

Tori is our resident gardener. She loves helping Dad outside and me inside. She picked these peas herself and shelled them – all without being asked!

Since we rent, it’s always fun to see what’s going to pop up in the yard. I don’t remember these yellow flowers last year! I love purple and yellow together (didn’t I say that already?). So cheerful.

We have such a late growing season here. We can’t plant until late May. I want tomatoes and cucumbers from my garden already!