Petals & Twine Chix

08/25/2026

08/21/2026

A sweet gift from my honey! I love the shade, and so will my plants.

08/21/2026

Sometimes you just need to pamper yourself with beauty.

07/12/2026

Thank you, Lord.

07/11/2026

Black aphids, ugh! Beneficial insect to the rescue! Morgan, show Annaleigh.

If you’re near Atwood, Tn, message me if you’d like some purple hull peas. They are $30 a bushel unshelled.

07/09/2026

This morning’s harvest.

07/05/2026

Second harvest from this morning before church. Before long, bushel harvests will begin. 🎉

🥵It’s already hot, folks! Sweat was a pouring!

Hope everyone had a safe and blessed 250th year July 4th celebration. 🎆

07/04/2026

Bag Worms! What are they?!

A co-master gardener and I have been working on a community project. Another local Master Gardener happened to see bag worms on the conifer tree informed the entity. We pulled every bag worm off the tree and sprayed as well. We filled about half of the bag of bag worms.

But what is a bag worm?! To research, I go! A bag worm turns into an adult male moth. The female looks like a grub that never turns into a moth. The male mates with the female through a hole in the bag. The female eventually dies with her eggs that will hatch in the spring. The eggs turn into caterpillars that eat from the host tree, or other host trees and the life cycle repeats itself. Caterpillars form their bag using silk, tree debris and attach to the host tree.

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