Saturday, August 21, 2010

oop! Photo quiz Phriday (12 hrs late...)

 
Pardon, I was traveling ALLL day yesterday.


Why is there string above the cosmos? I asked this earlier and got no guesses, so making it an official quiz.

Fat hint was that they are growing in what used to be the chicken run.

biobabbler

5 comments:

  1. Because string and cosmos are great companion plants. also to keep the birds from landing/smashing the cosmos

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  2. Okay, I will give it a shot. Is it some kind of chicken netting? Pretty cosmos!

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  3. @ dipper ranch: funny. =) @ amy: it is related to chickens and dipper ranch is on the right track re: preventing SOME birds from landing/smashing SOMETHING (back when there were chickens in the garden)....

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  4. to discourage those pesky hawks, owls, and other flying predators from devouring your defenseless chickens... perhaps.

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  5. Yes, Anonymous is right! Ding ding ding! To keep hawks from flying into the chicken-run of yore and landing on my little hens.

    Worked, too. Short version of story is the string messed up a red-tail hawk's landing enough to keep my chicken alive and unhurt (if upset and squawking) and broke a string and BURIED it in a big dent in an empty garden plot. Woah!

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Cool people write inside rectangles....