Re: Those motion-detector sprayers
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  • Subject: Re: Those motion-detector sprayers
  • From: T* G* <t*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 18:31:48 -0700
My guess is that cats don't like the smell which is great since they
haven't used that garden as a litter box in the past 2 weeks!!  If
there was only some way to keep that strong cedar smell going for
months on end...  I actually do like the smell, reminds me of my
grandfather's cedar chest from when I was a kid.
Theresa

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:23 PM, James Singer <inlandjim1@q.com> wrote:
> No idea about the rabbits, but interesting about the cats. Don't care for it
> much myself, either. But wonder why the cats don't like it.
>
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> "If you can't say something good about someone, come sit next to me"--Alice
> Roosevelt Longworth
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> On Aug 4, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Theresa G wrote:
>
>> I have recently discovered that the neighborhood cats don't like the
>> smell of the shredded cedar mulch.  Maybe rabbits don't like it
>> either??
>>
>> Theresa
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95
>> CS/SCOSI <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
>>> Hmmm. I guess I need to think about this. My vegetable garden area is
>>> all fenced off but it is about 40' or more on a side and there are gates
>>> on 3 sides. Long ago we ran small-mesh wire around the bottom of the
>>> fences to try and deter the rabbits, but they manage to get in anyway.
>>> Now we have some big shrubs and the sheep and horse corrals on the
>>> sides, it will be a lot harder to repair or re-fence all that.
>>> But maybe there are just one or two places they are getting through and
>>> we can figure out where they are.
>>> The wind dies down at night, and we see the rabbits at dusk and dawn, so
>>> the scarecrow might work in a limited area.
>>>
>>> Cyndi
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>>> Behalf Of Cersgarden@aol.com
>>> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 4:21 PM
>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Those motion-detector sprayers
>>>
>>> Cyndi, I use the scarecrow in warm weather for the deer and I only set
>>> it
>>> for overnight protection.   They are very sensitive, a bird or any
>>> movement
>>> will set it off.   Also, you need to move it about, at least for deer,
>>> or it
>>> becomes ineffective. When you have deer you become less concerned with
>>> rabbits.   The negative is it is connected to running water. I didn't
>>> get the
>>> connector in just right one time and we woke up to a flooded back yard
>>> however
>>> it beats anything I have used so far.   It would be desirable to have
>>> more
>>> than one.   The price has come down on these.
>>>    I do use green plastic fencing to keep the rabbits from my lilys.
>>>
>>> The roll comes in approx 6' height.   We cut it in half and then make
>>> cylinders to fit each clump of lilies.   My plants are planted very
>>> dense and I have
>>> hundreds of cylinders but the fencing just seems to disappear.   I leave
>>>
>>> them in the garden all year round however the deer make a mess of them
>>> in the
>>> winter.   My vegetable gardens are completely fenced so rabbits can not
>>> get
>>> in. We ran a heavy wire at about 4' height to discourage the deer.
>>>    Ceres
>>>
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