- Watering your vegetable garden
- Adding nutrients during the season
- Pruning tomatoes, cucumbers, and pumpkins
- How do you harvest zucchini?
- Get your vegetable garden ready for the new season
- Perfect vegetable garden and perfect plants?
- Mid-February: can you start sowing now?
- End of May, early June: harvest and add nutrients
- Vacation and your vegetable garden
- July: tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini
- August: sowing for fall
- Early September sowing
- October sowing
- Which vegetables can handle cold weather?
- Get your vegetable garden ready for winter
- White lumps on the roots: good for your plants
- Help the birds this winter
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- Watering your vegetable garden
- Adding nutrients during the season
- Pruning tomatoes, cucumbers, and pumpkins
- How do you harvest zucchini?
- Get your vegetable garden ready for the new season
- Perfect vegetable garden and perfect plants?
- Mid-February: can you start sowing now?
- End of May, early June: harvest and add nutrients
- Vacation and your vegetable garden
- July: tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini
- August: sowing for fall
- Early September sowing
- October sowing
- Which vegetables can handle cold weather?
- Get your vegetable garden ready for winter
- White lumps on the roots: good for your plants
- Help the birds this winter
Help the birds through the winter
Long periods of intense frost aren't very common these days. But if it freezes this winter, the birds could use your help.
Many Planty Gardeners think so too.
Many Planty Gardeners think so too.
Lots of Planty Gardeners think so too.
Since birds have a hard time finding food in the freezing cold, Cavolonero requested we all help the birds out.
To thank them for eating up all those snails and caterpillars the rest of the year 😀
Since birds have a hard time finding food in the freezing cold, Cavolonero requested we all help the birds out.
To thank them for eating up all those snails and caterpillars the rest of the year 😀
What can you feed birds during a hard frost?
Seeds, raisins, nuts, peanuts, and fruit. Unsalted and unroasted nuts and peanuts of course.
And mealworms. No idea where you can find those 🙂
That's it. So, no stale bread, cake, cheese, or anything like that. Those have salt in them and that's not good for the birds.
And mealworms. No idea where you can find those 🙂
That's it. So, no stale bread, cake, cheese, or anything like that. Those have salt in them and that's not good for the birds.
High tea for the brids
Silvia threw a party for the birds. With cake, cakes, cupcakes, and bonbons made just for them.
She wrote about it in detail, describing exactly how she did it (in Dutch). Complete with beautiful photos.
Everything frozen over? Give them some water too
Tap water is fine, and again: just no sugar or salt.
It doesn't matter what kind of container you serve it in. The water just needs to be in liquid form 😉
Patris's husband came up with a great solution: he placed a kind of heater in their Planty Garden to keep the water from freezing.
It doesn't matter what kind of container you serve it in. The water just needs to be in liquid form 😉
Patris's husband came up with a great solution: he placed a kind of heater in their Planty Garden to keep the water from freezing.
In this post, you can read more about it and find some additional photos (in Dutch).
Since their feathers are pretty oily, you don't have to worry about them bathing in the water. It'll drip right off.
Just be sure to change out the water regularly.
Since their feathers are pretty oily, you don't have to worry about them bathing in the water. It'll drip right off.
Just be sure to change out the water regularly.
More tips for the birds?
Would you like to help the birds through the winter, or do you have a good idea yourself?
Then make a post on Instagram or Facebook, add some photos and tag us @plantygardening. I'll add the best ideas to this page.
Have fun!
Then make a post on Instagram or Facebook, add some photos and tag us @plantygardening. I'll add the best ideas to this page.
Have fun!
Garden care
- Watering your vegetable garden
- Adding nutrients during the season
- Pruning tomatoes, cucumbers, and pumpkins
- How do you harvest zucchini?
- Get your vegetable garden ready for the new season
- Perfect vegetable garden and perfect plants?
- Mid-February: can you start sowing now?
- End of May, early June: harvest and add nutrients
- Vacation and your vegetable garden
- July: tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini
- August: sowing for fall
- Early September sowing
- October sowing
- Which vegetables can handle cold weather?
- Get your vegetable garden ready for winter
- White lumps on the roots: good for your plants
- Help the birds this winter