Spinach Fortress: Don’t Laugh — It worked!
The spinach seemed to draw the bunnies as well as the guinea hens (see “Guineas Under House Arrest” below…) so out of desperation one day I put up this stick fence around the spinach and pea bed. You can’t see the peas because the guineas had munched them to the ground when the rabbits weren’t doing the same. It worked! With the guineas secure in their pen, the fence keeps the bunnies at bay. I think it’s kind of cute, so I left it.
We’ve had several spinach salads out of this bed already. It’s spring planted so it’s just now getting going really well. Year before last I planted fall spinach and overwintered it — now THAT’s the way to have big delicious spinach really really early! I hope to remember to do it again this fall.
Read MoreNew Grosbeak Visitor
I mentioned that we’ve had lots more birds this year since we’ve put “backyard habitat” practices into place. This is a new visitor. Look at that cheeky posture and the rakish red scarf! Welcome to Larrapin Garden friend!
Read MoreCherry Blossoms Falling Beautifully
This was from a week or so ago – an ornamental cherry that drops its blossoms in sheets of pink. They are even lovely on the ground.
What was particularly funny (though impossible to photograph) was the sight of the young male roadrunner dashing about with a fat cherry blossom in his beak instead of his usual stick (he’s building nests everywhere) or dead lizard!
Read MorePath in Progress
