Mastodawn

We have lift off! My kale seeds have sprouted after just a few days. I'll try to keep them alive, then transfer them to a vertical garden set up. It's my dream to live off grid by 2036.

#garden #gardening #seeds #kale #offgrid

Gary Ismay 1d ago

I read that marigolds are good to keep pests away from other plants. I looked through my seed collection yesterday and couldn’t find any. Double checked today and discovered that their other name is calendula, so I do actually have some! Sowed! I learn something new every day 😀
#gardening #seeds

Spanish Garden 1d ago

It’s nearly Open Garden Day and the Blackbirds have dug up my Petunias

Next Saturday 30th May is our annual Campoverde Open Garden Day. This is an event that I organise every year for my village Church. But I have been away at my UK house and Cruella (my wife) and her girls have had a sleepover and invited Blackbirds.

In what I can only assume was some sort of orgy of destruction they have wantonly dug up all my Petunia seedlings from their seed trays. I am bereft these were special ones I had grown from the best of last year.

Since the first act of destruction I have replanted twice only to be struck by other raids. I have now taken to hiding my seedlings in new places every night, but by the next morning they have been dug up again. I think one of the chickens is spying on me and informing the Blackbirds!

To be honest I am too upset to go on writing this post but I’ll will just finish off by showing you the length I have had to go to protect my seedlings. My potting bench now looks like a prison camp I have so much protection. See photos below and click on each one for a larger view.

Anyway, if you would like to come along to Open Garden we would love to see you, see poster below.

If you do want to come along to Open Garden Day and commiserate with me then just so you know Pinar de Campoverde is south of Torrevieja and just inland from the town of Pilar de la Horadada in Alicante Province. The map below shows you the location of each garden.

#composting #flowers #Gardening #nature #plants #pruning #seeds #trees

Mika 1d ago

Been outside for half an hour or so. We have 27° C. Now I'm back in on the other side of the house, where it is a lot cooler. And that feels and is much better for me.

I am trying something new to prevent the #squirrels from eating up all the #birdfood - #sunflower #seeds that is. If you let them they will empty the #feeder in a few hours. At times we have 3 or 4 of them in our kitchengarden.

And at night we have even more visitors: roe #deer and #racoons, which are really a pest and a threat for every living being in our garden and forest...

I digress... I am not using a thin stand as before but hung up the feeder. As t is fairly close to the wall I twisted a thorny twig around the wire to keep the squirrels from climbing to the feeder. Hah!

But they will try for sure.
We shall see if that works. 🙂