July 14, 2009
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Had small heat wave, but has cooled off quite a bit and been rainy, which is good. Japanese beetles tapering off on the plants too. Mid July seems to be height of birds in the feeders. Gold finches, purple finches, cardinals, bluejays, titmice, nuthatches, woodpeckers, chicadees. And non feeder birds like robins, brown thrashers, mockingbirds.
Rabbits, hummingbirds, butterflies. Haven’t seen any more snakes. Sometimes owls at night. Lightning bugs, crickets, spiders, caterpillars, I harvested a green pepper. haha. Ants ate the strawberries. Tomatoes still growing. Squash and watermelon vine not doing great.July 4th weekend went with friends to Charleston SC. Nice view from the Battery: rivers, islands, ships, fireworks.
Folly Beach was pleasant. Kiawah Island had lots of starfish on the beach–we put several dozen back in the water.When fall comes I’ll probably do proper fall flowers which I haven’t done in a while–plant some pansies and a few mums. I may lay off buying so many bulbs–since squirrels eat half of them. And just be surprized by what does come up next year. Gardens are a forever thing.
Comments (3)
yeah, i’m debating whether to put in machine gun emplacements or just replace what i have with non eatable stuff! peace, Al
I never knew you would become such the gardener.
You need to come by my site more often. Well, only once a week as now I only post on Sundays.
Seasons seem much better when someone else is having them!