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We have finally planted out our garden, well mostly, we still have corn and cucumber to plant but the bulk of it is done. We are a little late getting it all in but it has been a lot cooler this year so I don't think it will matter being a couple of weeks behind schedule. Once the heat turns up the plants should make up for lost time. This year we have planted: tomatoes, beans, pumpkins, basil, sage, carrots, lettuce, spinach and we will plant corn and cucumber over the next couple of days. I hope the garden thrives this year. We haven't had a bumper crop for a few years because of the drought and the birds. We do have a bore to water the plants, but mostly they like fresh rainwater. And as for the birds, I am not sure what to do about them short of shooting them. But we don't have a gun. After spending so much effort getting the garden ready and planted, it seems such a shame to have cockatoos and crows come along and just destroy the new plants; they don't even eat them, they just break the stalks in half and fly away when the fun is finished. I am not one for shooting wildlife on a whim, but at this time of year, I am tempted. One year we walked down to the veggie patch to find four birds sitting in a row on the fence: a crow on either side of two cockatoos. As we approached a sentinel crow in a tree alerted them to our presence and they were off in a flash. It seems they work together, we can't win. So, because of the birds, we plant three or four seeds in each hole, hoping to get at least one plant for us. Some years we wonder why do we even bother, but after one taste of a home grown tomato, we know why.
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