Battling the Birds!! A Cactus Farming Saga

[Bugbear]

Your posts always make me miss AZ!

All last week I was shredding mulch to go around this raised bed.

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Probably not the best picture of me, but that raised bed has a bunch of young fig trees fattening up on one side, and young rootstocks for citrus in the other side. They've grown a lot since this picture was taken... I'll graft citrus onto these rootstocks next year, and the fig trees are for several different people. Now that I think of it, there are some starter bonsai in that patch along with a couple of rosemary plants and even a couple of tiger aloes. I like to stuff all kinds of plants together.

Sadly, I don't have any California poppies right now... this patch is just a big pile of mulch right now, but they will come back in the Winter.
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It's funny, the little seed pods explode when they get dry, and shoot seeds every where. There's several different plants that do that out here.

[SexyButler]

Thank you Ted, that was very, very sweet.

[george7]

Perhaps your scarecrow shouldn't look soooooo inviting.

[Bugbear]

No problem SexyButler, glad to share AZ pictures!

Ah, the scarecrow... He's too cute to be scarey. Infact, he's probably scared of that crow who lives in the palm tree. I have to bring him in when the wind gets bad. Wouldn't want him flying around, but that would be scarey...

Guess he's really a welcomecrow. All I need now is a lion and a tinman... and a yellow brick road.

Off to See The Wizard of AZ

[Bugbear]

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[Bugbear]

Yep, the birds have finnished off all the prickly pear fruit... That's ok though, I have a ton of citrus out there for this Winter. I used to have peaches, almonds, apricots, and some other fruit trees, but I started swiching over to desert plants... Some day I'll sell this place and move on... Kind of look forward to that.