Garden news

So today Nathan went outside, and found this:


In case it's not obvious, that brown and white blur that Finn's looking at is a small dove that somehow managed to get inside the bird netting. It was pretty scared, and Finn almost got trapped in the netting himself trying to get to it. We eventually fended him off and got the sides of the netting up enough for the poor thing to get out. This is not what I thought they meant by the name bird netting.

After that fiasco, I decided that since I was out there I might as well pick some of the larger squash. With pattypans it's better to eat them when they are small, and I didn't want these ones to get tough. I think that there will be enough small ones ready for another harvest in a few days.

I cut them up and steamed them together with some wax beans and peas from the garden. There's something extra delicious about eating food that you've grown yourself.