A fascinating article that I think all the gardeners would find interesting .... gardens provide food - good food & that is what we should all be eating!
How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3978810/posts
I heard this discussed on a podcast & was so intrigued, I looked up the paper - it was ‘eye opening’! Yesterday, I posted the link on a thread discussion & got a few comments on how much people enjoyed the paper, so I did a post on it today & I hope you all will enjoy it too (paper is easy reading)!
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Strictly garden news:
My first giant sunflower and first tithonia bloom have happened - woo hoo!
I think the hummingbirds are drinking the nectar out of my feeders with a straw or something - draining the feeders quickly! My SIL is having the same experience - says the hummer babies are now fledged and out/about in numbers.
Qiviut — It may be that nectivorous bats have discovered your feeder(s) and are helping themselves at night. I noticed this same phenomenon several years ago — gluttonous hummingbirds and empty feeders — then discovered one bright moonlit night that it was bats! I was happy to share and even bought an oriole feeder with larger ports to discourage them from making a sticky mess of the smaller hummingbird feeders.
Thanks for the link. I’m printing to share with hubby.
We are seeing the same thing - and the fights! Amazing how they crash into one another. Had to put up another feeder.