Le~Jardin

The owners of our house planted an adorable garden and trusted it in our hands. We are doing our best with it and it is fun learning and finding ways to use what we pick. The kids love to do the picking of whatever they can get their hands on, but we let them have fun with it. 

 

 I would like to say that they don't always come out with bed head and pj's but I would be lying.

Along with our fresh vegetables, berries and herbs we have had a few critters take up residency in the garden. On a number of occasions I have attempted to pick a green bean and got a praying mantis butt. Can you see why? Yeah, he lives there. It has got to the point that I search for him first before I do my picking so I don't make the mistake again and again.

Did you know caterpillars LOVE parsley and because they are always all over it, it has made me not love it. At any given moment we can find them in there. The best part of it is that we never have to catch them and keep them in a jar in our house. They live in the garden and we visit them and watch them anytime he wants.

 And it doesn't stop at bugs. One morning while searching for green beans I got the strange feeling that the ground was blinking at me, thats because it was. 

Do you see what I see??

Not one but 2 baby bunnies lived in a little hole under the bean poles. They were so tiny, like the size of an egg. We moved the drip line away from them and took the chicken wire off the lettuce plants to that they could stay in our safe little fenced in garden as long as they would like to. 

We sure have a whole lot more critters to watch out here. We see birds of all colors like cardinals and canaries and they go through the bird seed like a Golden Corral. We could fill it about every other day. 

 

Oh and squirrels.......lots and lots of squirrels. Bennett is sure that he is going to catch one and is totally offended that they are afraid of him. 

All in all this is just a few of the new experiences we are having out here. Fall has brought a whole new scenery in nature and critters, but we will save that for another time.