Spring has arrived beautifully in Georgia and with it the gardening bug... So being unwilling to dig up our hard clay soil with a shovel, I decided that we should have raised bed gardens. So we built 3 using the cinderblocks that used to be surrounding our old regular garden. We are very excited about the gardens! We have planted tomatoes (grape, cherry, romas, and amelia) in this bed. We were also out of room in our herb garden, so the basil and the chives also got planted here. We have another bed which is hosting the cucumbers, zuccinnis and the watermelon (hopefully the bunnies won't eat the watermelons this year).
Our Herb garden: German thyme, cilantro, parsley, sage, rosemary, and oregano.
While we were making our garden bed, we heard chirping from the plum tree, so we investigated and discovered that the eggs had hatched. We have baby birds! Little naked, blind baby birds. We were getting ready to spray the tree with Sevin, but will now have to wait until the birds grow up!
There are 4 baby birds in the nest (no idea what they are.
The kids said the eggs were blue, so maybe robins)
Sleeping baby birds. So fuzzy!
We took pictures with our camera from above the nest, making sure not to touch it, so the Mama bird will come back. Apparently this little nestling thought we were bringing lunch!
2 comments:
Looks like a professional garden to me! It brings back memories - we miss our gardening (well I do, maybe not Granddad)
Brilliant Emma! We are not allowed to have a garden due to water constrants (in the desert really?) but we had started with some pots with tomatos and a sweet pepper plant that Matt's dad gave us. We will see if that works. I'm hopeing to start some herbs soon.
I love the cute birds.
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