Protecting Popcorn, Garden Visitors and a Handful of Cherries

Trying to get some weeding done before the heat and humidity sets in. We've been getting temperatures in the mid 90's and close to 100% humidity. In the lower garden I had a little red eft newt watching me pull weeds.

In the top garden Little Roodle, a silkie chick (suspected rooster) always visits me when i'm working there. He found that he could slip through the fenced from the chicken yard to the top garden when he was very small and somehow he's still doing it even though he's larger. I'm not sure how he does it but he's in the top garden every day.

I have to protect my popcorn crop from Little Roodle and a few of the hens who are able to fly over the fence. We try to plant everything the chickens and ducks like in the lower garden which the birds don't know about. I can't plant the popcorn in the top garden even though certain birds can access that garden because we have sweet corn in the lower garden and Bobby doesn't want them to cross- pollinate. I'll have to change this temporary solution to something taller soon the popcorn has reached the top of these cages.

Our two cherry trees have been producing it's hard to get the ripe cherries before wild birds and sometimes chickens get them. I snagged a few almost ready cherries to ripen indoors so we get to eat a few. We had a larger cherry harvest last year, this year some of the cherries died off early for some reason. There are still some cherries on the larger tree, these came from the smaller cherry tree. The cherries on the larger tree are still green.