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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Just got some nice tomatoes and some more peppers out of the garden. The fruit is starting to appear on the eggplant. The potatoes are the size of jaw-breakers. Hmmm....
Here's what's been in my garden every morning for a few weeks now: blackbirds. They've eaten the heck out of that corn! Think I need a scarecrow. Or maybe I should shoot one and hang it on a makeshift cross in the middle of the corn patch as a warning to the others.
Nah, I haven't the heart for that.
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These birds know what's good for them: I'm sure your corn tastes much better that those engineered monstrosities shot full of chemicals that are in the agricultural fields
I've been preparing my plants for the holidays. My wonderful and irreplaceable concierge has agreed to come and water them when I'm gone. I set up lots of plastic bottles screwed on ceramic cones that are supposed to let water seep through as needed. I'm pretty sure I have too much irrigation now that the weather is milder, but I don't dare reduce it, what if there is another heat wave?
I'm busy eating all of the rocket before I leave, and I have torn down the two oldest plants that had flowers already, to sow some more in their place. I don't know if that's going to work, maybe all the nutrients in the soil are used up already? To attempt to compensate I put a couple of fertilizer sticks in the soil.
One of the tomato plants is growing lusciously, the others are less exuberant but they all have fruit now, and flowers still. I love watching the bees browse them. (Is that really the correct term? It sounds weird
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