New Years is just around the corner – and not long after, seed catalogues will start appearing in your mail box and online. It’s time to dream and plan your new garden. You search out old favorites, and you consider new possibilities. You make your list and check it thrice. You start counting backward from the last frost to see how soon you can start tomatoes and crucifers. You mark your planting dates so you can have your peas, carrots, kale, and potatoes in the ground by St. Patrick’s Day. And you envision corn on the cob, beans, and tomatoes on your table by the Fourth of July!
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Bill Holladay offers a few tips on how to make your backyard bird friendly to our feathered friends. Bill has been an avid observer and feeder of birds for more than 20 years. His favorite squirrel deterrent is a big super-soaker water gun. “It doesn’t really stop them,” he says, “but it’s hugely satisfying.” Bill is also known for his biscuits.