Carolina wren finds her flower pot again. 4 eggs ( photo / image / picture from Donna S's Garden ) Neighbors garbage bag potato garden. ( photo / image / picture from Donna S's Garden )
I KNEW there was something I meant to do this week!! I'm so glad you posted the pic of your neighbours potatoes as I should have had mine in there bags by now. Guess what I'll be doing tomorrow? Your little wren looks safe and sound brooding her eggs. I hope they all hatch and that you can, maybe, get a photographs of the youngsters for us.
Donna, I love the potato bags. What does she/he fill them with? is the fall leaves? and do they reuse the fill from year to year and keep adding to it. They look very full of a dense type media. The bird is cute. I had one a few years ago and it sang from morning to dark....my, oh my, it was a lot of singing. I was glad when the cats chased it off, finally. There was just never any quiet at all.
Donna, Ah! That little Wren is sooo cute. I had one that accidently got into our house for years when she nested by our window air conditioner. Sometimes she was in our house all day till we got home at 9 pm. My hubby would catch her and walk her outside and place her in her nest. She sat there just as pleased as pie, thinking him all the way. Barb in Pa.
Hi all glad you liked the pics. The bags are filled with garden compost. It's a product we buy close by. Actually I buy close by. His girl friend works for the company. He told me when potato's are ready to harvest he just cuts bag and shakes soil off. He is also doing sweet potato's the same way. He also told me he was going to share Will keep an eye on progress.
Lovely to see the Wren in the flowerpot nest,..that is special to have that in your garden,..alas i am in the same situation as Deanna,..i have many cats so no nests or feeders. Top marks to your neighbor he should get himself a nice crop from those bags.
Great picture of mom Wren on her nest. They are extremely opportunistic when it comes to nesting locations. Sometimes we have wrens nest in hanging baskets. I have to be careful when watering that the nestlings don't get wet. Jerry
Good morning, just sneaking in a little here, we have grown potatoes for years in bags, they can be purchased easily now and some of them have little covered peephole around the sides so you can 'ferret' the small ones which taste yummy. Any bags will do, even large shopping bags, use good soil, with plenty of organic content and of course water well, it drains through, the soil is put on the garden after each crop....potatoes make good soil. See the peephole on the left. ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden ) Some of the crop ( photo / image / picture from chocolate's Garden )
