Here comes the sun

Wow!  what a beautiful day 74 and sunny!  I am actually outside in the yard blogging and getting some sun on my too white legs.  Sofia is playing in her sandbox table.  I Chopped a bunch of dead plants but it will take a full day or two to clean up winter's ravages.  I also need to draw out the plans for my garden.  Only being January I can't get ahead of myself because we can always have frosts or freezes until March.  I'll post my "net house" plans as soon as I draw them up.

Planning my garden

I am in the planning stages of my 2010 garden project.  This year I plan on doing it right.  I may build a net enclosure  before I plant to keep the birds out this summer.  That will be a challenge but I just hated losing all of my beautiful tomatoes and peppers last year.  I also want green beans.  My Meyer lemon tree survived the freeze and should do good. 

I would like to really work on a herb garden with cilantro, basil, parsley, tarragon, thyme, chives, mint, and lemon grass.

I am back and it's freezing in Texas

Its been so long and the weather was just too hot and miserable to go outside and putter in the garden.  The birds were destructive and the netting was a mess.  Every time the yard was mowed the netting got caught up and just got worse.  So this year I need to create a better system if I am going to try my green thumb again.

We had an early freeze just before Christmas and a few days of freezing temperatures now.  

Here is an interesting article on getting the most bang out of your garden:

Plant High-Return Vegetables to Earn On Your Garden [Gardening]

from Lifehacker by Jason Fitzpatrick

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When Birds Attack!

These birds are relentless! I put up bird netting and they still found a way into my tomatoes! I have lost aver 50 tomatoes! Oh and did I mention one pepper?! This is crazy. I re-netted my tomatoes and we'll see if I can salvage a few after all my efforts.

This would be one of the guilty little monsters helping himself to some of the tomatoes I had to throw out just this morning!

I hope birds do not eat lemons!

My squash and cucumbers are still untouched!

This is the ruined pepper!

Maybe my garden angel needs a BB gun??? Hmmmmm!

Garden Pests !!

Today I spied the first squirrel I have ever had in my yard! So I have decided that it must be the squirrel and birds that are helping themselves to my tomato buffet. I have just ordered some plant pest netting (it will arrive tomorrow) and I hung two aluminum pie tins to try and scare them off as well.

I have read suggestions of feeding the birds and squirrels but I believe this will only attract more to my yard.

I'll keep you posted!

Holes in my tomatoes!!!

Something invaded my tomatoes!!! I did not encounter this problem last year. These are the affected tomatoes. I sprayed all my plants with Garden Safe Fruit and Vegetable insect killer. It is safe to use up to day of harvest. I inspected all my plants and saw no sign of the guilty intruders.