Beginner Gardening Challenge: How To Create The Perfect Bird Garden
Would you love to enjoy birds in your garden?
Did you think adding a bird garden is only for advanced gardeners?
Welcome back to Beginner Gardening Wednesday. Every Wednesday, we have been posting articles that are designed for novice gardeners. Our goal is to make gardening easy and fun for even the greenest of thumbs. Today, we are looking at how to add a bird garden.
Bird Feeders
The first place to start is by adding a bird feeder to your yard and near your garden. Here are a few tips for your bird feeder:
- Make sure your feeder has multiple spots for the birds to eat from. This way you won’t have 1 bird monopolizing the feeder.
- Attract mourning doves by having a low tray feeder that is about a foot or less from the ground filled with cracked corn.
Here are a few more tips to attract birds to your garden.
- Make sure you keep fresh water in your bird bath.
- Provide berries for birds. According to Organic Gardening,
They’re prime foods for birds that may alight during migration. The Virginia creeper that sprawls through my garden as a ground cover offers its midnight blue berries in early fall, right when vireos and orioles are passing through. The vines of fox grapes winding among the treetops attract later migrants like rose-breasted grosbeaks and tanagers.”
Bird Friendly Trees and Aeration Tubes
Add trees and shrubs to your yard that will attract birds to your yard. Examples of trees and shrubs that will attract birds for food according to the The Old Farmer’s Almanac include:
- Ash
- Birch
- Crab Apple
- Elderberry
- Maple
- Oak
- Pine
The best tip we can give you is to make sure when you plant your bird friendly tree or shrub is to install aeration tubes or Rootwell Pro318s or Rootsticks. Rootwell Pro318s and Rootsticks are scientifically proven to provide your trees and shrubs with the water, oxygen, and nutrients they need to take root and grow strong and healthy.
If you have any more questions about trees and aeration tubes, please leave your questions in the comment section below and we’ll do our best to answer it.
