Re: [CH] tough year in the garden
Rael64 (z42dkm@yahoo.com)
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:15:59 -0700 (PDT)
I'll take your deer (which I do have, thus the 4' fence surrounding everything) over these damned voles. They apparently eat grubs and stuff in the soil, which should be pretty cool in terms of keeping the garden pretty pest free (and it seemingly is, ironically, flea beetles notwithstanding), but these little voles destroy roots in the process of tunneling everywhere. And they do tunnel everywhere. Back half of the yard is terraced (my old man did it by hand), but it's starting to crumble in. Can hardly walk through the yard w/o breaking a leg. I keep waiting for a rear corner of the garage to just drop a foot and fall off.
Bah.
Trapped one, but I must have just got lucky. Have 3 traps out now, but no luck. Can't find their main route (probably under the garage), so it's hit and miss.
Deer, I can deal with. These bastids are just ugly. Starting to consider nuclear options...
Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles.......
Rael64
--- On Thu, 6/16/11, Alex Silbajoris <asilbajo@hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: Alex Silbajoris <asilbajo@hotmail.com>
> Subject: [CH] tough year in the garden
> To: "chile heads" <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
> Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 6:16 AM
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> Another morning, another pepper plant bitten off and laying
> on its side. I think I'm going to have to fence the patch
> and make a "rabbit exclosure" which means dealing with all
> that tangle in storage over the winter.
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> This was the third hab plant I've lost. The Zavory was
> bitten off by a deer a few weeks ago, but it was growing
> back nicely, Then the lawn care people hit it with
> herbicide. But wait, it's reviving! It also went through
> an episode of marble-sized hail. I wonder what will hit it
> next.
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> I have a Jen The Hen French Fry Pepper blooming in a
> whiskey barrel, along with marjoram, basil, and a tomato.
> We always had flowers in that barrel; we should have grown
> food in it years ago. It's rabbit-proof but not
> squirrel-proof.
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