Tag: tadpole-pond

The pond’s first summer was 2018, just a few months after it was dug, but the sprigs of plants we put in it grew explosively, and the frogs and insects colonized it immediately.

It was surreal how quickly the pond established itself because I didn’t use fertilizers or tend the plants or do anything that might put appearance or speed ahead of letting it happen on its own with minimal input.

But, by the time August rolled around, the pond looked and functioned like it had been in place for years. Hummingbirds and dragonflies and bees flew in and out constantly.

Bird Watching Blind

My bathroom window is now a great bird-watching blind, especially for hummingbirds and dragonflies and bees of many types. There are lots of songbirds and butterflies and the rabbits that eat the sweet potatoes I have growing around the pond mixed in with the milkweed.

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  March 11th day 1
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  March 18th day 8
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  digging tadpole pond. March 19th day 9
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  March 24th day 14
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  March 24th day 14 end
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  March 27th day 17
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  March 28th day 18
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  April 28th day 49
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  May 2nd day 53
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  May 5th day 56
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  May 13th day 64
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  May 17th day 68
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  May 20th day 71
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  June 1st day 83

The Yalobusha

In the backyard, we dug a Yalobusha, a tadpole place. We dug it after school together between dirt-clod throwing contests. Continue reading “Digging the Tadpole Pond”