Re: June 2016 Bird's Nest

luvsbulldogs · ‎03-14-2010

@mousiegirl wrote:
@luvsbulldogs wrote:
@mousiegirl

Good question. Most of the farms around here have nothing around their farming area other than some things that look like scarecrows.
One of our neighbors had a huge garden for many years and lately he told us that everything is getting eaten. This year he put up some sort of 4 ft. fencing so we shall see. DD has had bears go right on over her chain link fencing and leave dents or a bent fence. I have noticed that the farms have their produce growing very close to the road so maybe that is the answer.....not sure.
Last year we tried planting tomatoes in huge containers and the critters never got them but huge green worms destryed the plants and we even sprayed them. Last year the neighbor had them too.

@luvsbulldogs This guy, a tomato hornworm?

@mousiegirl
Yes, that is them! We started out picking them off and each day there were so many that we no longer could keep up. They destroyed the plants in a few days! One year we even sprayed them to no avail. I am not a fan of spraying so that ended our veggie gardening.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@Winifred wrote:
The chicken wire does work miracles in a garden. You can also use it to ward off the animals that come from underground. i.e. gophers. I have done that - you have to dig anyway so dig put in the chicken wire and plant your stuff - works like a charm. My Dad also did it all the time and he planted strawberries several years and learned the hard way they disappear the minute the fruit shows up. His strawberry field - so to speak - was covered in chicken wire and it is easy to water. Nothing got those berries after his first year. You can also buy from nurseries the things you put in the ground if you are planting larger things they are like chicken wire pots. Easier and cheaper however to just dig a trench and put down chicken wire. Of course I do not plant anything these days - too old and just cannot do it.

Bird bath is empty - I think the little boy emptied it and no one monitors him outside very well - except me. Shannon just lets him do what he wants and then screams and yells about it but she provides no guidance at the time. Geesh.

Got a lot of things to do. I put the cats out - they have not been out in their condo for over a week and I was going nuts. Just too darn hot for them. Will bring them in about noon or so but it is very nice out now and they can handle it. By noon it will be near 100 if not that or above. Wish it would stay just like it is but that sun - now that it is out in full force - will heat everything up out there. Too hot for the furbaby felines. Even Conrad has to be encouraged to go outside for a few minutes and tend to business - he HATES this heat. Cannot blame him.

Have a good day everyone.

@Winifred DH makes wire baskets, a pain and expensive. Lately when we have been planting, as he digs he runs into an old wire basket. It showed me how many plants died during the early years of DD when I neglected my garden.

Ricky playing in the water reminded me of when DD was tiny. On very hot days, I would set up a sprinkler in early evening in a shady area, still very hot, and let DD play running through it, then right into the tub, lol.

Pups getting their nails clipped, every month at this time, so it will be a day or running errands. I bathed them late yesterday, as they get dirty digging holes and rolling aroound, and can't take them anywhere looking like that.

Bird mama · ‎03-12-2010

Wow, am I ever running late.

The bird of the day is the Black Scrub Robin

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

possummink · ‎03-09-2010

This is what the Tomato Hornworm turns into after they form a chrysallis and develope into the moth. They remind me of the Hummingbird moths at home. We used to have them when we had a huge garden, like about 140 or so tomato plants. That's back when the kids and Mom would run the little vegetable stand out in front of the house.

Hummingbird moth is below. We see them at night especially around the spider plants/cleome.