Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Looks like a lot of IT types on Lemmy NZ by the discussion today (I’m one too). But I’ve had enough of that in my lifetime, so, another gardening topic:
I’ve been growing some Asparagus from seed over winter in our sun room and have just got them into the ground. They take a while to establish, so I probably won’t start picking them until after next winter.
Really easy to grow from seed, just have to wait a bit longer. These have gone into a no dig bed with pretty rough compost, but by the time they establish it will have rotted down well. I’ll try to collect some seaweed sometime during summer and add that as well, which is recommended for Asparagus beds.
Netting to keep those hard-working blackbirds from moving the garden bed to somewhere I don’t want it.
Blackbirds are my nemesis every Spring. Digging up newly composted beds and destroying seedlings in the process sometimes 😡 Also eating all our berries!
They are lucky I need them to pollinate my feijoa hedge otherwise I would try to eradicate them
I’m trialling a pest netting this spring because the birds destroyed all my seedlings last year. Its supposed to keep bugs out as well - so will be interesting to see how it goes. Of course i’m waiting for the frosts to stop so I can’t start putting something in the ground without risk of it dying!
I should really do it too. I keep thinking of doing it every year but then I forget about it. Another reason is I avoid growing brassicas most of the warm season due to white butterfly, so if I actually do it I can get some nice looking brassicas.
Yep. We struggled for a year or two trying to keep them of gardens. Just use netting now, and don’t have problems. Occasionally “catch” a cheeky sparrow that finds a gap somewhere, but they don’t do any harm. When plants are big enough we take off the netting so the birds can have at the bugs. Mostly works for us.
