Gardening time

We are trying to keep ahead of the crows and the weeds in the garden. The weeds are winning for sure. The crows got the best of us before we could find someplace that sold orange garbage bags. You think that would be an easy task but no....anyway the crows ate all the corn seeds. We were pretty sure they were calling Korn! Korn! Korn! as we were planting it and had a feast when our backs were turned. I had read a couple of years ago that if you put up orange garbage bags around the garden it will keep the crows away. And it works! What we found was it also kept the deer away for most of the year until they get used to the sound that the bags make in the wind. Orange garbage bags make a different sound than plain old black garbage bags.

Of course these don't really help but every good gardens needs one. Yes a husband too!

If you look behind Clarke and the scarecrow you will see that we put hay over our potatoes. A neighbor gave us that tip to help with potato beetles. Apparently the beetles don't like climbing through the straw to get to the potato plant. Verdict so far is that it doesn't eliminate but it certainly cuts down on them. Last year we couldn't get ahead of them. It is probably better to use straw because of the fewer weed seeds but straw is very hard to come by in our area.

Nancy