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RE: Weathering the Extremes; Heatwave Survival in the Garden.
Glad the trees and chooks will live to see another summer - sucks a bit the damage to the fruit, but I'm sure nothing will be wasted. With my apple tree I let the the wild parrots have them.
Speaking of parrots, I planted a new lemon tree and the buggers landed on it and pulled half the leaves off nearly killing it, what is with that?
Cheeky sods! Citrus is supposed to be safe because most birds don't eat it, apparently. Try telling that to my chickens, though.
Very true, no waste. The quails will have a go at any dropped fruit and when they've had enough the soil will take it back to feed next year's crop.
I read something that certain bird deliberately destroy non native plants (as an eliminate the competition type thing). I think this was most likely as they just threw the leaves on the ground and didn't eat them.
hehe well at least the quails like the outcome, i.e. extra juicy treats (as long as they survive the heat)