Kaye Kittrell Late Bloomer

Morning inspiration. 🍆 Good morning friends! I was covered up in Listada di Gandia eggplant in my CA garden, grew a huge bush (5x5’) right beside the driveway. Again, first year here, I had more than I could handle growing in side garden) but struggled in last couple of years to produce any eggplant, even buying plants from box stores. This plant I started from seed but never got it potted up till July and it has no other flowers so depending on weather, this could be it. I know exactly how I will prepare it! Watch: https://youtu.be/qEbDWHghOyQ?si=7C36q... ~ BJ and Spot and I waiting for Randy and UVA to begin (about 50 minutes after sunrise and lasts for 90 minutes or so before UVB begins. So many health benefits! Have a blessed day and thanks for supporting this channel by watching, liking and sharing. ❤️🌻🌱🌹🌽🌶️

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Well I guess I won’t be ripping out everything in the lower garden for awhile! Look what I discovered right before the premiere? This hopefully will be my one and only pumpkin this year🙏🏻❤️ if you missed today’s fun and informative video, link is below! 👇🏻
https://youtu.be/Y3kaP3I1bdU?si=TA4w2...

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Tomorrow Thursday 9:00am CST set a timer! YT doesn't always notify in time. My friend Darrell debuts his new stone compost bin and rock wall grotto PLUS how to end your composting hassles forever! Premiere with LIVE CHAT 9:00 am CST tomorrow! Hope to see you there! #composting #grotto #wormtower
https://youtu.be/Y3kaP3I1bdU

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Morning inspiration! Beautiful blooms and Lady Monarch! Snapdragon, Turmeric, Angel wing begonia, from whence hangs Lady Monarch, hatched about 6am. I took a break from her to go out and water most critical plants. The drought continues! I do not consider a .05% shower enough to break it, but the accompanying wind toppled my giant Mexican sunflower without ever a single bloom. 😢 Have a blessed day. I would much prefer to be out. 🌶️🌽🌹❤️🌻

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Good morning, friends! I have been waiting for a Monarch butterfly 🦋 to be born since 5am. This clip will complete the story that began August 19 when I brought two inside. I raised them (from caterpillar to butterfly) in LA, but it’s been at least 7 years. https://youtu.be/I0unXp8YbEE?si=GCdmS...

No fancy equipment, my old beat up garden camera will have to suffice. I knew yesterday it would be this morning. My experience is they emerge around 10-11am, which gives plenty of time to stretch and pump up the circulation to the wings (at least 2 hours) before facing their mission to mate and produce offspring before winter. But once they reach this coloration, where the chrysalis is transparent and you see the black and orange through it, it could be any time. It’s very exciting to watch if you never have. I’ll be editing a video today for you tomorrow 9:00am CST about how to end your composting hassles, filmed with our good friend Darrell, sorely missed in the live chat. We had lots of fun doing this one. Then, God willing, I’ll get this one compiled and ready for Saturday at 9am CST. Set your calendar. Too many have reported getting their notifications late. Have a blessed day!

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My dear niece Holly keeps an eye out for my past performances. This was Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman in 1995, playing today on The Hallmark Channel. I’m on the left listening to Jane Seymour telling us wives that we all needed to vote. it’s hard to believe that was 30 years ago. Time flies and it seems to be speeding up because the growing season is almost over and it just went by in a flash! I’m sitting down enjoying some cold watermelon after spending some time in the lower garden.

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Happy Labor Day, friends!🎉I made another #greatfind on LSN. This is a folding iron plant stand with wooden handles I got from my new friend Karla in Cookeville. No telling how old. I picked up an unusual iron plant stand from her a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t have enough cash with me to get this so I went back for it yesterday. She and her husband have sold out their farm and house of 30 years, which is in an absolutely stunning position with beautiful views all around and are going to Alaska to be near their children and grandchildren, sold all their farm equipment, cattle. As I was leaving, I noticed the tree loaded with fruit. I said what is that? She said pears and I said oh my goodness I had wanted to make preserves. I had had great plans for my peaches, but they were all bad before they got ripe, so we shook the lower branches and I picked up this box as she filled up a bag, so I have twice as many as this, and can’t wait to get started. She said there’s a lot of pectin in the peeling and so my plan is to cut off the bad spots and use the peeling but does anybody have any thoughts about about that because the peeling can be a little bit tough? What about turning into chutney? I just can’t imagine being around long enough for my trees to develop to get that much fruit, but I’m doing the best I can. I discovered the first little fig on my enormous fig bush, and I’m just going to be holding my breath. That bush I planted four years ago and it dies all the way back to the ground every year and has to grow completely all the way back and before it gets a fig on it, we have our first frost and it starts dying back again. Also, it’s time to save seeds, so I’ve got most of that underway. I’ve got melon seeds and tomato seeds and sunflower seeds and today I’m drying sage and mint in the dehydrator, making more boiled custard to go in the freezer for winter and I’ve got to get the rest of the melons out of the melon patch and into the refrigerator. No relaxing for me today! I hope y’all have a wonderful day. God bless and thank you for your prayers for Sharon as well as Tracey‘s husband, V’s husband, and Linda‘s husband, and Steve, all dealing with various cancers. Many thanks! I did hear from Chase and he’ll be back on Thursday and Saturday. He said he’s all healed up. Thank you for your prayers! 🙏🏻🌹🌻❤️🌱🌶️🌽

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That was easy to find! Webcast was a thing a decade ago before Zoom! Here is my phone interview with Sharon from Sharon’s Natural Gardens, focused on growing tomatoes 🍅. Sharon was a biodynamic Gardener all those years, but couldn’t legally call herself that thus the name “Natural Gardens.” She has always kept horses because biodynamic agriculture relies on compost made from horse manure. The mother and daughter were alive and well when I visited in 2016, but she buried the mother in the field a year ago.

I haven’t listened to this in a decade, but I thought you might enjoy it since we’ve been talking about Sharon so much! ❤️🌹🌻🌱🙏🏻🌶️

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Happy Sunday, friends! It was hot yesterday afternoon, but I put a roast in the slow cooker. This is one of the last roasts from the half of a cow I purchased in, well, I think it was harvested the beginning of ‘22. It was raised by my realtor for this property who had a farm up in Monterey and had about 60 cattle along with her husband, who tragically died the year after I got here. She found him underneath the 4-wheeler out on the farm, so she carried on for another year, finished those out, sold off her herd and I got one of her last animals raised with no antibiotics, no hormones, no injections, all grass-fed and finished. I’m not sure where I’ll get a replacement when these roasts are gone. I’ve used all the ground beef and other cuts. These are my onions and rosemary and bay leaf, local organic carrots and commercial, organic celery, and a splash of Randy’s homemade blackberry wine, peppercorns and Celtic sea salt, twice filtered water. No marrow bones unfortunately, so the broth will not be gelatinous, but I’m gonna use it anyway! I’m outside in cool 57F and quiet, taking in the light waiting for the UVA to rise. Occasional dog barks and crows and other birds are heard, as well as cicadas. Have a blessed Sunday and please continue to pray 🙏🏻 for Sharon. She’s made an extraordinary effort to go through all of her seed bins to put together a box for me. I wish I could go but the 13 hour drive is prohibitive. Sharon has been a fan of Late Bloomer since the beginning and long before Zoom and all of that there was a way to have a guest on your channel and we’re going back now at least 11 years, but that feature is long gone (along with Google+) and I interviewed her and she was on very low Internet speed on her farm and we could not get her on screen, but we could hear her over the phone, and I’ll post that link separately when I find it. She is making a huge adjustment after living alone for decades to have people in the house with her as she goes through these stages of hospice. I wish I could get her on the phone for a Q&A for my community but I haven’t the least idea how to do that. If you do, please LMK! I’m not that tech savvy. ❤️🌻🌹🌱🙏🏻

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Happy Saturday, friends! In case you’ve never seen the stages of Black Swallowtail butterfly 🦋 metamorphosis, 1) Thursday, 5:38 pm 2) Today (Saturday), 10:30 am 3) 2:50 pm 4) 4:25 pm. In photo 3 you can see a tiny wad at bottom. That is the skin it just wiggled out of, which drops off. This will remain its cantilevered position till birth. Skin becomes translucent as it nears birth, splits back of head and butterfly wiggles out. I hope to catch this on film. I missed the other one on the fennel. I will complete my monarch metamorphosis video after it emerges. Have a blessed weekend and please watch today’s big garden 🪴 update!

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