You can make your garden an attractive place for birds to hunt and raise their young by growing your own birdseed. And an easy way to ensure they get their fill during the cooler months is to make a pine cone bird feeder. Any pine cone will do but a large, round, and wide one will provide the best surface area. Slather the pine cone in peanut butter or suet and then roll it in your favorite birdseed mix.
Tie it with twine or a decorative ribbon and hang from the bough of a tree. Large, deep planters can take bag after bag of soil to fill to the top. While plastic bottles, rocks, and tin cans are some of the container filler options available to use, pine cones have a few advantages over these types of materials. Second, pine cones are slow to decompose and will surely add bulk for the entire season. When using pine cones to fill your containers, place them so they take up about one third of the space at the bottom of the pot.
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Pine cones have a lovely aesthetic to them. Try placing pine cones inside of flower pots and planting boxes as a decorative touch. You can line them up like natural borders, or just use them as natural ground cover.
While being used for decorative purposes, they will still help keep soil moist and protected. Ladybugs are always in search of little crawl spaces. Keep a few pine cones under tall and shady plants so the bugs can find refuge in them. So go ahead and set out some pine cones out for them. They will no doubt appreciate the hospitality! Want to take this idea one step further? David Domoney has a great article on how to make a ladybug hotel out of pine cones!
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Author: Janet Caldwell. Author: Dora. LOL I'll do that on a day where I need a "mental health" day off. Three thoughts that you might include in your planning. When I add corn to the garden area as fertilizer that may help discourage powdery mildew, not as worm food I use corn meal. I expect that is more edible by worms and, when buried, less attractive to mice, voles and birds who might eat any worms present for dessert. When our pine cones here are dry, they look like.
But when they are wet, they collapse into compact shapes, much more like the state they are in when growing. If they change from dry to wet to dry to wet, they collapse, then expand over and over. They do eventually decay and collapse permanently, but in the meantime they stir whatever mix they are in. Note that this wouldn't work if they were in an always wet environment. Here, even in spring, there are enough dry spells that they cycle from wet to dry.
Again, whether this is true depends upon the type and age of cones you have, but I'd experiment cautiously if you do decide to drive over them. I wonder what an under-sink kitchen garbage dis USKGD unit March 17, zeroma. I didn't think about mice and voles. Maybe I'll rethink the corn. And I surely don't want the birds having dessert on my worms! When I was working out there with the pick ax in the past few years, the robins were so daring or friendly, that they were right there to pick out worms as I'd turn some of the soil.
This year I'm in no mood to share. Some of the collected pine cones are wet, some dry. I'll think of a way to kill at least some of them.
And leave some as they are. Mostly they will be buried in layers of organic stuff to make my new planting area for at least a full year. If by fall it has decomposed enough, I'll plant bulbs etc. Oh my. I can hear my hubby now. What were you thinking!!!!! I need to sleep on that thought. Oh my March 17, Alpinejs. I have had a "haystack" of pine needles for at least fifteen years and they showed no or little signs of decomposing, so last fall, I added a pickup load of horse manure and a large trash can of rabbit manure lots of cardboard and household food scraps and a couple thousand red wiggler worms.
The pile is now all green from all the squash seeds in the kitchen scraps that are germinating all over the place. Once rid of that haystack, I will have a spot for another hoophouse or many bales for strawbale gardening. All times are GMT
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