Wild Country Girl🌱

Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:26 UTC

Ewwww yeah that's just the same if not worse than my glacier till 😆

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:25 UTC

Not only are they carrots, they are THE carrot where all commercial carrots come from. 😁

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 11:43 UTC

Oh trust me I know lmfao. I have a gravel pit I've been digging and sifting out rocks from for the past couple years. Glacier till is hard to dig lol.

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:12 UTC

Amazing. 💪💚

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

Making progress digging up bricks I lost and creating a better path 💪

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

I don't care if it's a non-native weed, Queen Anne's Lace was my favorite wildflower growing up. 💚🌱🤍

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:49 UTC

Sunflower hill is looking quite spectacular. I can't wait for them all to bloom 😍🌱🌻

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

Personally I think it's a great deal. You actually aren't purchasing anything, but rather renting the library access. If I were to buy all those albums I listen to in a month, it would cost me thousands. Paying for TV with ads, now there's a scam...

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 20:03 UTC

The colored beauties reseeded from last year are finally starting to open up. 💛🧡🌱🌻

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:09 UTC

Prairie flowers be like that lol 😆

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

I have been working on this patch for about 5 years now. Seems something new appears every year, and I haven't seeded it for the past 2-3 years 😮🌱

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:45 UTC

I see what you did there 🤣 This one is guarding the green beans 💚

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:42 UTC

Another color of the phlox 🌱

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

Grandma would have adored these hollyhocks. It took a few years to get them well established, but I slipped in a black hollyhock variety into the mix. 🤭🌱 Soo many colors here now! 💚

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:20 UTC

Cucumbers are growing so well I almost already missed one. Its where's Waldo farm addition 💚🌱

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

First nasturtium! 🌱💛

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

Garden phlox is blooming! Love this gorgeous native wildflower. There are so many different colors that pop up every year 🥰🌱

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

Those are daylilies, not true tiger lilies. We actually call them ditch lilies here 🤣 Tiger lilies have straighter stalks and less leaves. 💚

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 14:57 UTC

He's a weirdo lmfao

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

Happy #Caterday 😸

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

lol that's what I tend to do with roots - throw them in water until I can figure out a place to plant them. I am just floored by the scent of the chocolate mint! AMAZING!

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

This is my spearmint patch. I started it with a few plants about 5 years ago. It only pushes around other non-native aggressive plants like creeping charlie, catnip, and the bunching onions off to the side. The barnyard grasses is what you need to worry about here. There is no controlling them.

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:31 UTC

Chocolate mint looking AMAZING. Thank you @sevenhillfarm.bsky.social for the start 🥰🌱

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:37 UTC

It's really quite amazing what people will comply with simply because they were told to, even when there's no real punishment. Reminds me of speeding camera tickets. Those aren't actually legal and you don't have to pay them (in my state, anyway).

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:32 UTC

Love this patch. 🌱🌻💛💚💜

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 02:04 UTC

This sums up nicely how my month has been going. 🙃🌻🌱 It's been an exhausting race balancing raspberry picking season and seasonal job, plus keep up with any sort of lawn work in between loads of rain.

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 20:25 UTC

Found a picture from 2 years ago when I was still finishing the project. I very much lost control of this very quickly. 😫🌱

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:20 UTC

So I was horrified to see a commercial for a male version of this product. I...have no words. And yes, it was just as creepy if not more so in a very sad way.

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:18 UTC

I've given some free reign because I gave up trying to control all the yard parts. It's a big yard lol. Here I gave up. Just going to try to get the bricks moved to a better suited spot 🤣

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:15 UTC

I would think these are materials hobbyists should avoid. The exception being finding animal bones on nature walks or in your yard. Even then you should probably know how to safely handle them.

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:09 UTC

O yes, I find them everywhere!

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:08 UTC

Lol! I planned on it. 😏 Actually I want them for a path in the shade where nothing grows anyway and I absolutely can't lose them like I always do 🤣 This one was so deep so fast it threw me. Must have been all the rain and flooding.

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

It's just bananas. Going to see if I can rescue those bricks because they were a very pretty white! I fished out one, but yeah, it's just tons of mud on top. Nature baffles me sometimes when I see what randomness it's capable of.

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 19:03 UTC

The grass and plants have a plan of their own that I am not allowed to know. They hide things from me all the time 🤣

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 18:59 UTC

No, seriously, there is like 3 inches of dirt piled up on this entire brick path area. MY YARD ATE THE BRICKS! And it only took them 2 good seasons to COMPLETELY bury like 40 clay bricks. 😳

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 18:57 UTC

So, like 2-3 years ago I tried to tame an area around my greenhouse. I had cute bricks, some decorative rocks, and tried to carve out small garden patches. Today I go gently trimming and wading through tall grasses in search of those bricks. This is all I found.... 😯🙃🌱

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 22:48 UTC

Yes! I brought these beauties from the old place. I had red as well, but they didn't make it where I put them. Happy to have these anyway 🥰

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

Entirely different plants. Wild black raspberries are "caps" like the red raspberries you see in stores. Blackberries grow on a stem, and look similar to mulberries (usually a little bigger). Both are in the bramble family 💜

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 15:43 UTC

Very good plan. My biggest battle around here is grasses, both native prairie and barnyard additions that got loose. Some areas I let creeping charlie (ground ivy) grow even though it's seen as a non-native invasive around here. Doesn't harm/compete with most plants because of its shallow roots.

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

My white tiger lilies are blooming today! 🌱🤍🥰

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 12:26 UTC

Love this design! Great way to keep weeds down while keeping the soil protected.

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 12:23 UTC

They really are! This is why I let all bugs and wild natives run free, because I know the ecosystem will run itself. I don't need to intervene or spray. They've already eaten all the mosquitoes and have moved on to tiny grasshoppers 🤭

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 12:20 UTC

Love potato blooms! 💜

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 12:19 UTC

One of the hybrids. Love this color! (And yes the Japanese beetles have come back, but the praying mantis are also hatched so it's just a matter of time before they start snacking on them🤭)

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 12:16 UTC

Originally my Grandma's hollyhocks, these were in beautiful pinks and whites in my childhood. Several years back I scattered black hollyhocks, and now there's some deeper pinks in the mix. 😊❤️🌱

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 12:14 UTC

Lol not all of them do 🤭 I've been doing this for a lot of years. I've built up at least a little self control 🤣

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

Muffins, jam, butter braids, crisps, and any other recipe I happen on for fresh fruits 😁

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:39 UTC

Yesterday was heaping on the tray. I didn't even get to all the patches today because of bugs and humidity. 🤭 They are a good week or two ahead of where they were this time last few years. 😁

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:29 UTC

My very quick morning haul of wild black raspberries ready for the freezer. 😊💜🌱

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Wild Country Girl🌱 @midwestwildchild.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:28 UTC

Afternoon hollyhocks 🤍🌱 Some pink ones started blooming this morning, too. 😊

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