Birdfeeding
Mar. 29th, 2023 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithToday is partly cloudy and mild.
I fed the birds. Lots of activity today! I've seen a flock of sparrows, a flock of mourning doves. a pair of house finches, a male cardinal, a robin, a dark-eyed junco, an eastern towhee, and two fox squirrels. :D We're into the spring season when migrating birds appear, who do not typically stay for a whole season. They're fun to watch.
The first plant shipment arrived today from Cold Stream Farm, so the spring planting season is now open. So far I have planted the witch hazel and the white oak. \o/
More things are leafing out and blooming. The first violets are blooming blue-and-white just south of the house, and the apricot there is showing white flowers buds.
EDIT 3/29/23 -- I planted the persimmon seedling in the streetside yard.
The cornelian cherry is blooming.
EDIT 3/29/23 -- I planted the chokeberry in the streetside yard.
EDIT 3/29/23 -- I broke up branches in the ritual meadow and added them to the firepit.
As it is now dark, I am done for the night.
I fed the birds. Lots of activity today! I've seen a flock of sparrows, a flock of mourning doves. a pair of house finches, a male cardinal, a robin, a dark-eyed junco, an eastern towhee, and two fox squirrels. :D We're into the spring season when migrating birds appear, who do not typically stay for a whole season. They're fun to watch.
The first plant shipment arrived today from Cold Stream Farm, so the spring planting season is now open. So far I have planted the witch hazel and the white oak. \o/
More things are leafing out and blooming. The first violets are blooming blue-and-white just south of the house, and the apricot there is showing white flowers buds.
EDIT 3/29/23 -- I planted the persimmon seedling in the streetside yard.
The cornelian cherry is blooming.
EDIT 3/29/23 -- I planted the chokeberry in the streetside yard.
EDIT 3/29/23 -- I broke up branches in the ritual meadow and added them to the firepit.
As it is now dark, I am done for the night.
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Date: 2023-03-30 12:12 am (UTC)Fen went out and got planting stuff today. The local nursery doesn't have herbs in yet, but the big department stores do (from the same company). One has muscadines, too. And he found a good trellis - trying beans here this year.
Still trying to grow strawberries from seed, but someone might get some once the local nursery has theirs in.
- MK (he/him)
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Date: 2023-03-30 12:39 am (UTC)Yay!
>> One has muscadines, too. <<
My very favorite grapes. :D They don't grow this far north, but sometimes I can find the juice here.
>> And he found a good trellis - trying beans here this year.<<
In my Landrace series, I linked to places where you can get landrace beans, if you like surprises and don't want to fuss with the garden all the time.
>> Still trying to grow strawberries from seed, but someone might get some once the local nursery has theirs in.<<
Good luck with that. They're finicky to grow from seed.