There's no need to water here, either. Yesterday morning's rain was pretty well dried up by mid-afternoon. Today and tomorrow are supposed to be dry, so I have a date with my lawn mower.
Glad to hear your baby jalapeno plants are becoming grown ups. My Anaheim plant has two pickable peppers that I need to harvest. My sweet pepper, once again, is all leaves and no peppers. Mere feet away from each other, and treated exactly the same, two totally different results.
It's a good thing I planted more green beans outside the garden (in the 20-foot-long ruts that the electric company's truck left) because the ones inside the garden have No Leaves left. I have used neem oil and hardware cloth to protect from evil bugs and hungry bunnies, without success.
And, as if I didn't have enough to do, I am now trying to keep a baby robin alive. Late yesterday afternoon, I found the almost-fledgling -- who looks like it should be able to fly, good sized and plenty of feathers -- plopped on the ground, under a large tree near the coops.
I hustled all the ducks into their pen and looked for a nest. Didn't find one, but I found robin parents who didn't want me near their kid. Mom and Dad yelled at me from a safe distance, but stayed fairly close. It wasn't hopping or fluttering, so I worried that one of the stray cats would eat it.
I knew there was a fallen robin's nest in the front yard (with a tiny, unhatched egg beside it), so I grabbed the nest, which I put inside a cut-down plastic planter that I suspended from a reachable, lower tree branch. Honestly, the little one slipped out a couple of times before I tweaked the design. During one of its spills, it stood up a few times.
I was told by a rehabber a few years ago that young babies only eat live food. So, armed with tweezers, I rounded up several worms that hide under my stepping stones, and the open-mouthed youngster gobbled them down. In fact, it was pretty demanding! On one of Baby's trips onto the ground, I noticed fresh poop behind it, so I figured it's digesting the meals I'm offering.
This morning, wearing my night-vision head lamp, I went out prepared for the worst. Twelve hours after I found it, Baby is still alive. No parents near the makeshift nesting creation. So, today I will again be a worm collector.
Although I am not a
Walmart fan, I needed a single onion and a green pepper (if only mine would grow!), so I stopped in yesterday morning. In their greenhouse, many of the half-gallon perennials were marked down to $3. I left with four, including two daylilies because a person simply can't have too many daylilies!
And, I put my incredibly entitled goose girls back in their pen so they wouldn't stomp on or bite at Baby.
