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Comment on Reusing and Recycling in the Garden by Cordia Re

Cordia Re — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:28:46 +0000

Wild bird food preferences vary with bird species. While birds like pigeons and doves will readily eat any bird food given to them, more specialist feeders like Robins prefer small grubs such as mealworms. You can buy bird food from various outlets that have large stocks of bird food available in various weights depending on your requirement. Guides to feeding garden birds can be researched online or from various gardening bird books that give details about wild bird feeding habits. The autumn season can attract a large number of wild birds to your garden with the right food including siskins, goldfinches, great tits, blue tits, wrens, woodpeckers and many more. Each one of them has a different feeding habit and accordingly people can make use of different bird feeders and feeding locations within their garden to encourage them. ;

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Comment on Reusing and Recycling in the Garden by Elma Weitze

Elma Weitze — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:41:06 +0000

With the onset of autumn wild birds will have started migrating from one place to the other. And in many cases feeding these birds becomes a treat to the eye. But in order to attract a variety of birds it is essential to have the right kind of wild bird food. Along with this you also need to gather knowledge about different varieties of bird feeders, nest boxes and bird baths that attract birds…

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Comment on Early Spring Garden Tour: The Back Garden by Joe Farinaccio

Joe Farinaccio — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:08:55 +0000

Love to see those raised beds and compost bins Colleen. A lot of my friends are new gardeners and they’re making the mistake of buying attractive raised bed kits kits without giving much thought to the soil. They don’t really understand the value of home-made compost. Not yet anyway. We’re trying to get them to see that nourishing soil is the foundation to successful growing.

Comment on Early Spring Garden Tour: The Back Garden by Bethany

Bethany — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:14:40 +0000

Wow, what a great start to the season! I think I need to find some space in my garden to plant garlic this year now…

Comment on PinSilly: Ice Cream Cone Seed Starters by Fendi

Fendi — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:19:41 +0000

I haven’t seen the Pinterest pin or original source if the pin. But the kids at school use ice cream cones for planting seeds. Works great. It’s economical for the classroom. The cones don’t get too mushy but I suppose if you drowned them in water they would. They’ll get a little soft, especially after a week, but still easy to handle. They are economical (can supply the whole grade level of 100 students for about $5) and they don’t require additional prep time/work of the staff to prepare. Of course they aren’t professional gardeners or anything, and I’m sure you know a lot more about gardening than all of us combined, but the ice cream cone planters work great for planters for kids.

Comment on On taste and other matters of opinion by Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:57:32 +0000

“The only crime against horticulture is the one committed by scaring people away from gardening before they even start.”

I would definitely agree with you.

Comment on Why I would never, ever grow food in a shipping pallet by Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:53:30 +0000

Wooden pallets make up a large part of the wood container industry. Wooden pallets are collectors of dirt and debris. Cleaning them becomes more and more difficult over time as the pallets age. They must be heat-treated to get rid of the contamination and washed to be rid of of dirt and debris. However, the heat accelerates deterioration, and the water, if improperly dried, can feed mold spores that thrive on wood.

Wooden pallets are more susceptible to infestation by termites, ants and other insects that make their home inside the wood. Pallets stored outdoors are more likely to succumb to infestation than the ones kept within a warehouse. The insects burrow into the wood, eating away at it and thus weakening what should be a support structure. Wooden pallets can also carry pathogens that can contaminate the products that are carried on them.

Comment on PinSilly: Ice Cream Cone Seed Starters by trey

trey — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:24:48 +0000

Blogging got overshadowed by the various social media platforms available, including Pinterest. I read that Facebook isn’t “cool” with the youth anymore. They want “intimacy”, smaller friend lists, etc. Nothing like a well written blog post to supply those needs. I think that’s why Tumblr is so popular. A chance to express oneself in more than 140 characters.

Comment on PinSilly: Ice Cream Cone Seed Starters by Jodi

Jodi — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:08:59 +0000

LOL. Bizarre reaction to your post up above me, Colleen. I thought your post was, as always, funny and informative. It alarms me how many people don’t read, don’t think, don’t recognize satire or humour (or humor, as you would spell it. ) I saw that picture some weeks ago, somewhere, and read that it was a planter, and not to use an actual cone…but as you observe, people don’t read, jump to conclusions, then wonder why things go awry.

Comment on PinSilly: Ice Cream Cone Seed Starters by Colleen Vanderlinden

Colleen Vanderlinden — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:47:05 +0000

Uh oh. Did someone pin the ice cream cone idea and get offended by this post? The point of the post was actually a kind of “pinner beware” message — I think anyone who tried this would be disappointed and assume that they had done something wrong, rather than (rightly) assuming that it was a dumb Pinterest idea in the first place.