Bamboo…….er, bird issues
In a previous post, I talked about the hundreds of birds coming to roost in my bamboo each night. https://sarasinart.net/2017/04/18/big-bird-problem/ The guano that that many birds produce can cause serious […]
Category Archives: Ecology
Big bird problem
Well, not a BIG bird problem, like there’s no big yellow guy here from Sesame Street. It’s a big BIRD problem. For several weeks, several hundred black birds have been […]
You can learn so much working in the garden
I have a fenced in area that’s sort of rabbit proof. Other years I used to cover it with cardboard in the fall to keep all sort of extraneous weeds […]
Working in the garden….in February.
For anybody who says climate change doesn’t exist, or, worse yet, that it doesn’t matter, you should have seen me the last 2 days working in the garden, at 65 […]
Winter has its blessings too
The earth is brown and gray now. And if you’re a regular reader, you know I don’t like winter, cos it’s cold and dark and long, and I can’t grow garden! […]
The last of the Limas
Oh the last of the garden is always sad, but the time has come for the good earth in Pennsylvania to take a rest. Today I took the tomato plants […]
We have a thief in the garden
Strange things had been happening. I had a volunteer cantaloupe plant that had 2 melons growing on it. They were under bean plants and didn’t get a lot of sun, […]
The good earth provides
Let the harvests continue! I love to see beans curing in a jar on the window sash. Those are the first black turtle beans, and later there will be some […]
Things are growing on around here!
I went to the greenhouse early in the season to buy herbs. I saw 4 “cute little spaghetti squash” plants, and decided to bring them home too. I would plant […]
Garden going wild!
The garden is doing amazing stuff. I had posted before that I had a garden mystery: squash coming up where my cucumbers (only!) were supposed to be, squash that I […]
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