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Re: Centipedes

Frances ,
Your post was so vivid and lovely prompted the question :where is your
garden located?
connie Hoy

Frances Burns wrote:

> If I have made "sweeping statements", they pertain only to my garden, my
> soil, my centipedes, snakes, spiders and birds..It has taken 10 years,
> but there are now have birds where I never saw them, a winter wren that
> comes to the window every fall to tell me in no uncertain terms that he
> is back.  I resist destroying the spiders under the eaves...he eats them
> (after they've eaten mosquitoes, etc.).  The blue jays dine on the
> carpenter ants that abound on hot summer days.  They are also the
> reforestation committee, "planting" acorns, filberts and black walnuts
> like Easter eggs..it doesn't take long to figure what the garden would
> look like in 10 years if I weren't vigilant...a forest of oaks, etc.
> The goldfinches dine on thistle and dandilion seeds in non-garden
> areas.  Song sparrows delight us with their song.  Wild band tail
> pigeons come in a large flock.  We have a resident coyote, encourage
> bats...even had a cougar 'til some one shot it.  Few deer, however; the
> poachers and 2-ton highway "bullets" keep them controlled.  Earthworms
> till the soil, moles provide me with potting soil, etc. etc.  Our big
> old oak tree used to drip honeydew from aphids all over the
> patio...birds and the new Japanese lady bugs have changed all that.  We
> have allowed a natural habitat to develop, use the microclimates to our
> advantage, and it's paradise.  I don't mean to crow...but hey, it works!
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