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| Here’s the garden where we placed the pole…behind the blooming tree. You can see the male bluebird even in this photo perched on the pole. |
The Bluebirds Found the New House
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Replenishing Raised Bed Garden Soil
Raised bed vegetable garden soil soil needs to be replenished periodically. If you’ve done your job right and selected great soil, and amended it with nice compost, you’re going to have super garden soil for the first few years. Because you don’t walk on a raised bed garden the way that you do with typical…
How to Build a Vegetable Garden Using Raised Beds
If you’re thinking about building a vegetable garden this year, raised beds are one of the best ways I know of to start a vegetable garden. Instead of renting a rototiller or hand-digging the soil, adding amendments and turning it all under to create a good garden bed, you start with the best soil mixture…
Henbit: Plant Profile
I’ve put together this henbit plant profile to spotlight a lovely plant – which many gardeners consider a weed. Weed or flower? To me, it’s a matter of perspective. Every spring, at least one of my raised beds is covered in a thick mat of henbit. Henbit is both lovely and practical despite being labeled…
The Ultimate Guide to Growing Organic Beets
I wrote this Ultime Guide to Growing Beets to share my techniques for growing tasty, organic beets. Beets are a powerhouse of nutrition. Both the beetroot and the leaves and stems are edible. You can also can beets and beet greens to store them for year-round use. Here, I share with you a full guide…
They aren’t that sweet. They can be very aggressive. One of them had a punch up in our back yard. He was fighting a prothonotary which had been nesting in one of our boxes for a few years. The bluebirds took it over and we never saw the prothonotary again. I blogged about it for B. But yes, they are pretty.
Beautiful blue bird. So glad your work to make him/her a home was rewarded so quickly!