How To Keep Pollen Off Your Porch
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Yesterday I had a annotate from Marking who said:
Have a similar porch to yours and we beloved it already. Information technology is coated in pollen. Do you always hose yours off??? What is your cleaning routine? We are in NC and the pollen is three ft thick 🙂 There is not an easy way for water to run off, similar yours, but wondered what you usually do.
Normally when I'thousand using the porch on a regular basis during the spring, summertime and fall, I sweep or vacuum as needed, which usually works out to be nearly once a calendar month. But pollen is a different kind of "dirt." I've never tried to vacuum upwardly pollen for fear information technology would damage my vacuum cleaner since information technology'due south so fine and powdery.
I was thinking today, a shop vac might work okay since those are normally used for vacuuming up sawdust and such. I may attempt that next jump when the pollen attacks, merely for this year I did what I always exercise: I swept up the majority of the pollen, then followed that up with a adept mopping.
I ordered a new broom about two weeks ago and information technology worked peachy for sweeping because the bristles are stiff and super dense. (You'll find the broom I used here: Broom.)
After sweeping, a fine, powdery dusting of pollen however remained on the porch floor.
Time to bring out my clandestine weapon, my Mopnado! If you've been reading BNOTP for a while, y'all'll call up when I purchased this spin mop last yr. I love this matter considering it greatly speeds up the mopping procedure and the mop that comes with information technology holds a lot of water. Each strand is similar a big ole sponge. I look forward to mopping with it considering it'due south actually fun to employ. You tin read more virtually it where I purchased mine here: Mopnado. Later on iv,685 reviews, it has a score of 4.3 stars. I call back that says a lot.
Hither's how the porch floor looked later on mopping it. When mopping the porch, I always leave a lot of water in the mop head, specially when mopping upwards pollen. Merely the spin mop will spin out all the water if needed.
I think the worst of the pollen has passed now. I noticed the table and some of the other areas I had wiped down a couple of weeks ago, weren't covered with pollen about as much every bit they were the terminal fourth dimension I wiped them all down. I went ahead and put out some of the items I like to use when decorating the porch. At offset, I had planned to wait on decorating the hutch, just to make sure all the pollen was actually gone. That empty hutch got the better of me, though. I just couldn't stand seeing it completely empty with the rest of the porch decked out for spring. lol
So I went alee and pulled out my favorite "porch" dishes. It was merely starting to go nighttime when I took this photo.
Darker even so…
I've added something new to the porch this summer. My sweet daughter-in-law gave me a beautiful pic this by Christmas. Practice you lot see it there on the wall nigh the swing?
She and I both love our Hunter boots, and then this was perfect! I won't leave it on the porch during the winter, only it should exist fine hither for jump and summer. It feels like it was fabricated to hang on a porch.
The porch hutch decorated with my favorite summer dishes…
The blueprint is Ma Maison, designed by Dario Farrucci for Tabletops Unlimited. (Run across this pattern in a tabular array setting here: Ma Maison.)
Hope wherever you live, you're starting to see warmer temps and some pretty springtime weather. Information technology'due south going to be in the 60s to upper lxx's here this week. The birds are coming to the feeders all mean solar day long at present. They are loving the fresh mealworms I'chiliad putting out.
I also have dried mealworms bachelor for the birds. I merely ordered a feeder recently that'southward specifically designed for dried mealworms, and it's working great. The birds are already using it, so they took to it immediately. If y'all like to put out dried mealworms for your nesting birds, you'll find the feeder I'thou using hither: Mealworm Feeder.
I have bluebirds nesting in one of the dovecotes in the front yard, and some other pair is nesting in a birdhouse in my neighbor's one thousand, just on the other side of my lawn fence. I've been seeing them a lot at the feeders. Bluebirds aren't able to crack open a sunflower, but they love the shelled "No Mess" sunflower seeds I'm mixing in with my regular seed from Wild Birds Unlimited.
Photo from a previous leap
All the birds are loving the fresh mealworms I'm putting out several times a twenty-four hours. I merely ordered 3,000 more than from Rainbow Mealworms. Chickadees, Nuthatches, Wrens, Tufted Titmouse , etc…all love them. And then does a greedy little Mockingbird who wants to eat ALL of the mealworms in one sitting when he visits. lol
Photo taken during a previous spring
It's so much fun watching the bluebirds stuff as many worms as possible into their mouths/beaks, before heading back to the nest.
Photo from a previous spring
I'm still seeing my Robin stopping past, usually for a sip of h2o from the birdbath. Occasionally he'll eat some of the mealworms, but today he just looked at them and didn't swallow any. Maybe he thought they looked similar an titbit since he's probably used to much fatter worms from the garden. lol
Photo from earlier this spring
I'1000 looking forwards to sipping a glass of iced tea with y'all on the porch this summer. Then glad jump is finally here!
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