Backyard Habitat

Megan and I are working to make our property beautiful by planting gardens in the front and back yards. We removed the “lawn” in the front yard and replanted with a mixed-use vegetable garden and flower garden. We are a couple of Earth Muffins so we naturally planed to grow the gardens with no chemical pesticides or fertilizers. We saved part of the front yard for our vegetable garden because a large redwood tree mostly shades our backyard. The front yard vegetable garden has been a success but one of our neighbors has been assisting us in the harvesting of our vegetables.

We have now started planting our backyard and hope for it to become a backyard wildlife habitat. I used some scrap wood from an old dog run to build a birdhouse and now the birdhouse sits waiting for its first inhabitant. Both in the front yard and the backyard we have bird feeders, birdbaths and some plants that provide seeds for birds. Megan had a book on planting for wild life in her library and we have been using this resource to plan the gardens. We have planted a lot of flowers for bees, flower flies, and butterflies both in our front yard and backyard. Our backyard was host to its first butterfly since I have been living in the house, and I believe it was a Pieris marginalis or Veined White Butterfly.

Well that’s it for now I plan to keep this Blog about how the gardens are doing and will upload some pictures later.