Tastes so good!

Well if you're a bug at least. As for food for humans, the first pepper crop harvested in the store yielded a good dozen tasty bells. The next crop (two different pepper types) has germinated and placed in side by side hydro setups. Also started some strawberry seeds but those can be finicky starts.

“Plants have a secret social life.”

Amazing, considering some gardeners don't! ;)

Victory! in the War on Flies

There are about half a dozen of the babies surviving, all about an inch long. That young I've seen them snap at flies before but usually some frantic buzzing shakes the victim loose from baby's grip. But ha! Not today.

What would you do with a boulder-sized meal? Baby took over an hour to eat the legs and wings first, then started in from the back end and made it almost all through the head before dropping it. Glutted, baby now sits fat and contented.

Nice job baby mantis!