I'm here!
I picked the last stray pepper off the plants today (some small ones got left behind, maybe they'll be good in the morning). I also covered the celeriac loosely.
Last week I harvested an entire grocery bag full of peppers. Guess what I've been eating this week? I still have to cook the rest.
Good points. I have blue / coal and great tits (I see you, I see you and your wriggling eyebrows cantina), they eat all our caterpillars and so on, so perhaps they are already provided for.
I already I try to do this, and the sparrows are little crackers at whizzing around after I've hoed the veggies and picking up insects and things. The other birds are great at picking up greenfly from the roses and other insects from the fruit trees.
I'll just keep plugging away at what I'm doing I think. I did see a wren hopping it's way down the fence last week so I know the little critters are there somewhere. And do you know? i have never once bought pesticides for my garden. I mean apart from the fact that they're a bad idea anyway, I don't need them, I've got feathered friends.
At least you weren't arguing with your aunt over how many tits are too many! Bwah ha ha.
And you should still have insectivores in the winter. I have to put the suet out soon, which is a good substitute.
And yes, pesticide free gardens are important. For one thing bees = food.
This spring I started with a slug problem but I'd put out water for the toads. When I went out to slug hunt one weekend when the problem was bad, I was surprised to only find one. The toads beat me too it.
And every time a pest problem started to get bad, the numbers would drop again. Except adult squash bugs. But there were never any mediums and rarely any babies. Anything that will eat those bastards are awesome.
Just plain old knitted socks, the kind you see all the time. Only they'll actually FIT me.
They're blue. I like blue.
I'll post pictures when I'm done, how's that sound?
Sounds good. And wool? Cotton? Other?
Yep. It's put in seed mixes primarily as filler. The only birds I've ever seen to prefer them are juncos.
And yay for bird talk!
Tis the season.
I saw a woodpecker today. Havent seen them much since I got skimpy on the feed. It's prolly time to start beefing up the supply.