maeve, your yard sounds lovely.

Chances are the birds will build another nest and try again.

My front yard is looking good but sounds awful--we're at the bottom end of a block where the street is being torn up and the sewers replaced. The rest of the summer is going to be dusty and noisy.

There are worms in the corn. I need to research further. I sprayed BT yesterday and it didn't slow them down. This morning I manually removed or squashed all worms I could see. The corn is over knee-high now, and they're eating the center out. The first year I grow a crop is when I learn how to grow it, I don't necessarily expect to get much food. That may be the case for corn this year.

SRS