Posted by Sara | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 09-05-2010
We have a robin nest in our front yard! It is in a bush that is right along side our garage door. It has been there for 3-4 days to my knowledge and there is one angry momma bird in there! She flies out whenever we are out side and chirps at us from near by trees.
So in 12-14 days we will have some baby robins!!! (Day of first sighting was Sunday May 2nd.)
Here is a great resource for all things Robin: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/search/RobinNotes2.html
Pictures to come soon.
I got the majority of my outdoor weeding done yesterday!
The vegetable garden was full of thistles and other odd looking plants I didn’t want in there. I also found a whole patch of volunteer tomatoes! They will need thinning so now I have a serious amount of tomato plants! The two strawberry plants are very happy and already have several large flowers. The radishes are doing great and the peas are as well. The onions are just up and about 2 inches above the ground now.
I didn’t do anything to my “knock-out” roses over the winter to protect them and they did just great. I even have a few buds already! I had to prune them back in to shape, but they are a lot larger this year. Roses are very hardy. I recommend them to anyone looking for an easy to care for perennial.
I also have babies breath, mallow root, and pink yarrow perennials in the vegetable garden. I will try to get some pictures up later on!
In the flower bed there were also thistles, and I have discovered that chives are thriving through out the entire garden out there!!! I need to put a can around the root ball and make sure I pick the tops before they seed so they don’t spread further. If that doesn’t work I will need to get rid of it. Nothing like a flower bed that smells strongly of chives!
Stay tuned for my green house plans as they have changed dramatically!
Thanks for stopping by!
Well, the tangerine tree is totally against all this care and change that has come to its home recently! It was thriving just sitting by the window, I would forget to water it, I certainly was not fertilizing it, and all it had for light was indirect, winter light deflecting from the yard which is over 20 feet away. The leaves were green, the stem was hard and it was very happy!
Since I changed the indoor setup to be that of the indoor garden (for veggies) it has dropped 2 leaved which yellowed, weakened and fell off! So, no more water, no more extra light, no more liquid fertilizer for that one!
I have moved it to a place (on the top shelf for now) where it only gets natural light and I will not be watering it as often, and I will just be using plain water, and fertilizing only about 1 time per month.
Hopefully this will stop the leaf shedding!!
