The problem with Veronica...

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In the pasture we have black eyed susan, blue vervain, moth mullein (a new flower to me, delicate and pretty), daisy fleabane, grayhead prairie coneflower , and others. This is a good site to get a wildflower fix:
http://citnews.unl.edu/florasearch/p...?id=1002556732

One flower I don't have, and really really want is butterfly milkweed.

http://citnews.unl.edu/florasearch/p...1002553886http

We had a lot of rain this year and the grass is tall. It's worth all the chiggers and ticks to wade through this year's deep grass and visit the flowers.

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Oh yes! I garden! I have 33 tomato plants (thank goodness they are staggered in age so I'm not too overwhelmed with them). The bigger Roma tomatoes go into dinner or become sauce, the tiny Romas get cut in half and dried.

Also collecting beans, squash, zucchini, and corn. Had a friend give me some cowhorn pepper plants and okra (that's still a new one to me). Been freezing quite a bit. Carrots and onions will be coming in soon. I also get some bounty sometimes from the organic bakery I work with a few days a week - sometimes a box of produce is rejected by another customer, and we're the last stop before the driver has to turn the truck to freeze instead of refrigerate, so I've had some good stuff to preserve there too.

For whatever reason, my basil isn't doing well this year. All the other herbs (rosemary, lemon balm, sage, oregano, mints and thyme) are doing fabulously. I'm about to dry all the culinary herbs, and have yet to dry some of the herbs for teas. I've collected all the yarrow, dandelion and calendula blossoms I need (and tinctured two of them). Waiting on the St. John's Wort to bloom, and Self Heal is getting there.

Blueberries I have picked, and picked, and picked. I've frozen gallons of them, and made blueberry jam which is disappearing very fast. Have to make more!