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Took a few close up photos of the Abert's Towhee (Pipilo aberti) nest in our Royal Lee sweet cherry tree. With closer inspection, I can see lots of things we laid out as compost and chop-and-drop in the garden ended up in this nest... spent wildflower stems, coffee filter, lemongrass, winter vegetable pruning and many other carefully selected materials by the bird mama! This also confirms to me that the chop-and-drop method not only provides for in-place composting for the garden, but also provides nice natural materials for native birds to consume and build nests with! Hope these beautiful eggs hatch and the baby birds thrive!
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Day 29 Wildlife
One of the lovely bonuses of gardening/allotmenting is getting to see some of the lovely wildlife we share our spaces with. It's nice to know that by growing plants/food & creating little places for wildlife to explore it's all helping with the eco system which needs encouragement & protection to keep it healthy
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Abert's Towhee (Pipilo aberti) built a nest in the Royal Lee sweet cherry tree made out of our spent wildflower stems and pruning that we left as chop and drop around the garden! Can you spot what the plants are?
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Vous aimez le gout et les couleurs des salades du Talus ? Cultivez les vous même (c'est facile et en plus ça repousse) !
On vends des plants de salade prêts à planter sans chimie, ni engrais
Les stars du moment: Epinard, Salade romaine, Salade frisée et Feuille de chênes rouge !
Le Talus est ouvert du mardi au samedi de 9h à 19h.
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En vente au Talus des plants potagers prêts à planter sans chimie, ni engrais.
DISPO en ce moment: Epinard, Tomates, Haricots, Courge, Aubergine, Piment, Goji, Persil, Menthe, Cerfeuil, Tournesol, Coriandre, Capucine, Consoude, Saule et Olivier.
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Our arugula plant in the Kitchen Garden not only fed us through winter, but also supported an amazing amount of wildlife through its lifecycle.
A month ago, when it was in peak bloom, crazy variety and amount of pollinators came to feed on the nectar and collect pollens. As shown in the first two videos.
Now it has went to seed, family of house finch comes to pick the seed pods clean. Check out the family of 7 house finches balancing and having a good time snacking on arugula seed pods! Once the seed head is done, I will remove the plant to our garden by chop and dropping the stems.
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