I think the pie tins are working

I think the pie tins are going to work. I found that hanging them on the string that I have run like a clothesline from stake to stake across all the tomato plants makes them move the best in the slightest breeze, but hanging one on the tall stakes and poles make a great banging noise with just a little stronger breeze, so I am thinking that has to be a good thing.

One site that I found on the Internet said to feed the birds! I like that idea. This garden IS supposed to be beneficial to all the critters too. I actually started this whole thing planting beneficial flowering plants that are supposed to attract bees. I kept reading last year about Colony Collapse Disorder, and how we were losing alarming numbers of bees, due mainly to irresponsible marketing of chemicals. I became an activist of sorts because I was incensed that these companies could be so downright diabolical in their schemes to make money even if they knew what they were doing could make us sick and damage the environment. http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.cfm Then when I saw that was just the tip of the iceberg - the despicable way they have treated innocent farmers in our own country, literally taking family farms because contaminated pollen blew into the farmers' fields with PATENTED DNA! I was shocked that they had found a way to patent a living plant - something that was always rightly forbidden! It is clear that what they really want is to control the food supplies of the entire world! Sounds preposterous but it's all documented.
There are MANY pages all over the Internet about all this, but by all means watch the video on this site. http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.cfm

Information is key, and informed people are the only ones who will make sure things change, so I set about driving people crazy forwarding emails and newsletters to raise awareness. But just like with encouraging people to get into edible landscaping, and needing to be also actually growing some food here, I need to be DOING some of what I preach about helping the bees! So I planted lots of "bee friendly" plants and flowers. And it has certainly worked. Bees are so amazing! You can really get into watching them like birdwatching - bee watching!



















So anyway, the idea of sharing with the critters appeals to me. But like my cousin Carol just wrote - she has birds, deer and rabbits that do NOT know when to stop! My friend Ingrid plants things that the deer like at the edge of her property, then plants lots of things inside that line that deer do NOT like, and it sort of sets up a boundary. I love it! So I am thinking I'll make a critter garden, lots of good stuff, add some bird feeders, let the squirrels have some too, and maybe include the rabbits, all down with the bee plants! Critter City! Then buy another fake owl or two to sit with the pie tins at the "real" garden! This could get to be fun!