Bet you thought I’d forgotten, or worse, things hadn’t worked out and we’d shelved the idea.
Well, you know what it’s like wanting and waiting for things to grow.
I remember the lad next door to us on the council estate planting carrots and digging them up every day to see if they were growing yet! He was 8.
Anyway, back to our project.
The buckets are ready and waiting in the bow for the tomatoes we started off last week in plastic cups. Sadly, no sign of life yet, though we do have a plan B if we have to cheat and buy established seedlings (hope not).
We have also planted garlic and peppers. The garlic is starting to smile above the soil.
The onions are in their trays on the roof, and whilst not exactly going nuts at the moment, we have shoots and are getting quite excited. We just have to make sure the birds don’t get them, and Hubby has put some plastic webbing over the trays and three sticks in each to ward off Mrs Mallard in case she gets any ideas.
onion trays
Fred is also back in position keeping watch from the grab rail.
Fred
Note:
Apologies for these pictures being so dark, even though they were taken in good light this afternoon.
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Do birds go after onions? I would think they wouldn’t enjoy onions at all and would leave them alone.
It’s the shoots more than anything else, and we are getting a lot of gulls here.
Interesting. Though I am not surprised gulls would go after them. Those things are like garbage disposals with beaks.
I feel the same about crows as well!
That they are – but I have more sympathy for the crows, who I have seen act intelligently and compassionately before. Gulls have yet to give me a good reason to like them (beyond their looks, which I find decidedly nice).