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Category: Vegetable and Flower Gardens | Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:09 am

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This morning at 6:15 there was quite a bit of action out at the wren house. I had to leave for work so I couldn't watch for too long but the babies were sticking their heads out to get food from the mom and there was a lot of noise. At dinner they were still in the house but by 8 pm they were out and in a tall spruce tree making "chk" noises while their mom had a fit squaking at them (and me).
Here she is on Monday afternoon after a trip into the house with some food:


Mom Wren ( photo / image / picture from jillh's Garden )

And here is one of the babies (you can see a beak easily but not much else):



Baby! ( photo / image / picture from jillh's Garden )

The gourds are growing now that we've had some heat. I put some ashes from our fireplace on them as suggested on one gourd growing website. They are supposed to have a high nitrogen food for the first month to get the root system strong and grow lots of leaves. I promise not to take another photo of boring leaves! The next picture will be a blossom...cross your fingers for me.



Gourds coming along slowly ( photo / image / picture from jillh's Garden )

Here are the potatoes which have grown exponentially and need to be mounded. The zucchinis have also grown a lot in a week. I think we'll have far too many zucchinis....



Taters ( photo / image / picture from jillh's Garden )

We ate some lettuce from the garden this week. The spinach has no flavour when it's in salad with a dressing and it got some strange disease or bug. It has beige dead patches on most of the leaves in a small section. Could it be water damage? The short variety of snap peas has produced some pods that are eating size. The 6 foot tall vines are massive with huge thick stems and lots of flowers.



Snap peas ( photo / image / picture from jillh's Garden )

Mmmm, look at all that lettuce (up front) and the peas. I can't wait until they are ready!



The main garden ( photo / image / picture from jillh's Garden )






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daisybeans wrote on Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:24 am:

I just love that sort of dopey look baby birds get on their face!

I'm glad you posted the pic of "boring leaves." Earlier I saw that the birds planted something beside a rose and it looks a lot like that first plant pic of yours -- is that the gourds? Maybe the birds brought me soem gourds! That would be nice.

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jillh wrote on Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:35 am:

I find a lot of vines that come from our compost and make their way into our garden. We eat a lot of canteloupe and squash so I think that is what they usually are. Could that have happened to your garden?

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