sharing with the birds

I don’t dead­head every flow­er­ing plant in the garden–That would drive me crazy! Besides there are plants that pro­duce seeds that keep the local bird pop­u­la­tion happy, and many of these plants are annu­als that would only come back next year from seed.

Lettuce going to seed

There are some let­tuce plants that I’ve been let­ting go to seed for the last decade or so. I put up with some slightly scrappy look­ing plants for a month or so. But there are some lit­tle yellow-green finches that descend on the veg­etable gar­den, mak­ing a most excel­lent squawk­ing racket. And when the weather turns cool again, there’s a nice lit­tle col­lec­tion of baby let­tuces, all from seed, some plants for the salad plate, some to make more seeds for the birds.

July 02 2008 05:42 am | Categories: gardening • my garden | Tags: • •

2 Responses to “sharing with the birds”

  1. Jenny on 02 Jul 2008 at 5:22 pm #

    Ditto. I even leave some inter­est­ing weeds, like poke­weed. The birds like it because it has pretty pur­ple berries. I love it when I can turn pro­cras­ti­na­tion into a virtue!

  2. lostlandscape on 03 Jul 2008 at 8:54 pm #

    If we had it I might let it fruit too–The wikipedia pic­tures are actu­ally pretty flat­ter­ing, and the writeup makes it sound sooooooo ver­sa­tile: “can be used as food, med­i­cine or poison…”

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