A nice little surprise when I went down to the patch this morning, there was a bird inside. Maybe a little frightened for not quite figuring out how to get back out from the now netted garden, but after encouragingly showing the bird the way out, off he/she went. I’m just hoping this is one of the friendly sort I want to encourage in my garden, to eat the bad bugs and to share the responsibility with the bees to help pollinate some flowers and veg. Unlike the brush turkey, carelessly kicking his way through my seedlings to find those banana roots and chokos... I’m still not quite sure who ate the sprouting choko, but I will just blame him for now. Who, by the way I haven’t seen since I relocated my babies to the protection of the garden. Maybe I should sleep there too!! Lotsa bumps in the night tonight, shakily questioning “who’s there?” “………………………………….”.
I came home earlier this evening after another day at school with about 40 minutes of light left. Just enough time to plant out my latest garden bed with some desperate little seedlings that survived the turkey’s wrath. Not the happiest little guys, but all the more now for being in the ground I’m sure!
Today was the last good planting day for green leafy plants for this moon cycle- as my new buddy Greg from Blue Knob markets told me on Saturday. He advised I put the seeds I wanted to sow in the fridge the day before planting (“I don’t have a fridge”), so they think it is winter, and then out of the fridge- “it’s spring, let’s grow!” Amazing little beings! With all their genetic make-up in the tiniest little bundle- like chamomile seeds, or big fatty bundles- like the gourd. How amazing they are! And then to provide us with food too! Gotta love them.
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