Summers in the Northwest is easily one of the most beautiful places on earth. Something about lots of water nearby, not too hot temps and no bugs is a real crowd please.Hey! Come visit and spend your vacation dollars here!
Our summers almost make up for the 6-8 solid months of drizzle and gray bleh. Hard to even remember what it usually is like on a day like this.
Perfect. 75 degrees, cloudless blue sky, slight breeze and did I mention the no bugs part?
And, drum roll please...
The corn has actually emerged in my garden! I thought for sure I had screwed that up. Much to my surprise, they even look different from all the weeds. Now that I can tell the difference I guess I better do some weeding.
Pumpkins starting popping up yesterday with more happening today.
And, row after row of bush beans making their first appearance. Wow, they move fast once they are up.
I read somewhere that crows particularly like bean starts so to get some flashy tape or something to scare them away. GGF has some on order for us both. You know that metallic tape that you string around and it flashes light and is supposed to discombobulate the birds? Hope it works and we get it in time!
I might need an extra special strategy because my crows are pesky smart ones. They wait until we aren't around and snack on the cat kibble off the back porch and they have no qualms about snatching pretzels from Shea's lunch when he wanders off even for a brief moment.
In fact, one of two may be Ravens because they seem awful big for crows. I actually sort of like them but not well enough to feed them my bean babies.
Is it scarecrow time?
Suggestions?
1 comment:
wow, you are becoming quite the gardener! Good for you. I don't have suggestions for your crow issue but that is half the battle having a garden--keepning out animals..
And a vacation on the west coast sounds yummy. We are still rainy and cold (in the mid 50s this week) on cape cod.
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