Many of our plants have set flowers and baby vegetables are beginning to appear! This is an exciting time to be a gardener.  All the work starting the seeds, prepping the soil, planting the seedlings, and weeding are starting to pay off. There is anxiety too. I am struggling to keep something (a squirrel I think?) from eating the flowers off the zucchini plant.  I have seen it send out flowers many times but none [...]

Just after the second set of pea leaves appeared, birds started eating them.  I blame sparrows, the possibly invasive species that seem to swarm our neighborhood in the spring. So, bird netting is on the peas. Last year we lost strawberries to the squirrels.  Even with Alex’s not exactly legit squirrel hunting, they still come around. Bird netting is on the strawberries. Then I noticed that despite plenty of rain and sun the lettuce just [...]