Posted in The Vege Patch

Yesterday the farmer came to harvest the barley, so now we have piles of barley straw all over our land. He said the barley straw is not much good for anything - only feed for stock - not even good enough for the garden as it doesn't break down as well as hay or peastraw. Soooo, I thought it would be fun (I'd had this in mind all summer and I was just waiting for the barley to be harvested), to make a scarecrow for my vegetable garden.

I had the children go and fill buckets with the straw, and I found a really great website:

www.bestgardening.com

It has clear directions on how to make a scarecrow. Hugh did the face, Meredith was the best straw collector and Theodore (3yrs) helped everyone to stuff, but watch out when he's got the hammer in hand!!!  DH put the stakes together and dug the hole in the garden. It was really a lot of fun, and he looks sooo good - even if he is rather a giant. I'm sure I'm going to get lots of comments from the neighbours (he's very visible from the road) - but at least no one should have trouble finding us! We've called him Roger.