Birdfeeding
Jun. 16th, 2022 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithToday is sweltering. It looks like we got a tiny bit of rain last night, though. There are damp patches on the leaf litter, and water caught in a few areas.
I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of blackbirds foraginig in the grass, a flock of sparrows dustbathing in the burn barrel, and more sparrows at the hopper feeder.
I watered the barrel garden.
EDIT 6/16/22 -- It took several rounds of watering to cover the plants again, because it was still hot this evening.
The soil is so dry, and the weather so hot, that my domestic plants are struggling to survive. My sunchokes? They're growing like mad. "Shine on me, sun! Shine all over me!" This is what you get after several thousand years of growing a prairie wildflower for food, followed by a few years of rebreeding at a nursery, then releasing it into the wild. :D Food that can fend for itself. Note that prairie plants can sink roots 14 feet or more. While the sunchoke tubers lie not far under the surface of the soil, the feeder roots can go much deeper. Sunflowers often have roots a good 4-5 feet down.
I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of blackbirds foraginig in the grass, a flock of sparrows dustbathing in the burn barrel, and more sparrows at the hopper feeder.
I watered the barrel garden.
EDIT 6/16/22 -- It took several rounds of watering to cover the plants again, because it was still hot this evening.
The soil is so dry, and the weather so hot, that my domestic plants are struggling to survive. My sunchokes? They're growing like mad. "Shine on me, sun! Shine all over me!" This is what you get after several thousand years of growing a prairie wildflower for food, followed by a few years of rebreeding at a nursery, then releasing it into the wild. :D Food that can fend for itself. Note that prairie plants can sink roots 14 feet or more. While the sunchoke tubers lie not far under the surface of the soil, the feeder roots can go much deeper. Sunflowers often have roots a good 4-5 feet down.
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Date: 2022-06-17 05:25 pm (UTC)Also, I passed along your crocheted sunshade idea (from the recent poem) to use on heat-sensitive plants in the garden. (I wonder if one could make a fabric sunshade that doubled as an evaporative cooler...?)