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Poor Injured Anole Survives For 17 Days

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DSC00788  Poor injured anole on October 31.

Poor injured anole survived! DSC01006  Poor injured anole today, 17 days later.  It survived close to my garden, though it was motionless each time I photographed it, not even moving after I watered the garden.  The end of its tail fell off in the meantime.

Green anoles can get 6-8 inches long, and survive for four to eight years.  They eat crickets, worms, and other bugs.  Maybe this one is eating caterpillars.  It was kind of cool on both of the days on which I photographed it, which may explain why it was motionless.

It normally stays in trees, and may like the palmetto next to the garden.  They crawl shallowly underground when it gets cool or cold.  They can be kept as pets indoors, if one takes care to meet a lot of conditions.

The Poor, Injured Anole was sitting on my garden edging four days after this posting was put up! 21 days after I first saw it!

 

Garden 9th Week After Planting

DSC01003 The green on the left is radishes,             And that on the right is cilantro and parsley.

DSC00996 Radishes.  The taller variety grows better. DSC00994 A little Mesclun Mix is in the front.

The lettuce has disappeared again.  I think caterpillars ate it.

After fertilizing, frequent watering, letting in a little more light, and removing the tent-caterpillared mulberry leaves, the garden is doing a little better.

We have a little less than 10 weeks to have the garden get yet darker, and the light again.

New Plantain Flower, Early Fruit

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DSC00716 My newest plantain flower.DSC00716 - Copy  If you look carefully, you can see a couple of bees, which is reassuring.

DSC00714 Another picture of my flower with little plantainlets.  This makes it clear that both male and female parts of the plantain live closely together.

DSC00932 This is the same flower two weeks later than the above pictures.  There are four “hands” of plantains.  This plant does not shade my garden, so I will leave the plant standing for awhile.  It has become fallish today.  The temperature is only in the mid-60s.