Re: Canning beans!

It didn't work for me. It's at least 60 feet on a
side, with several gates...we ran small mesh chicken
wire along the bottom of the other wire years ago, but
they get in either by digging under or where the gates
meet the fence or through holes I cannot find even
when I see the rabbit go through the fence. I've been
reinforcing areas ever since we put it up. For all I
know they have tunnels coming in from the chicken coop
too, I can't get through the lilac bushes to see
what's in there. Usually I just curse at the
depredations but it's too much to ignore this year.  

Cyndi

--- Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:

> >>It felt evil to get rid of them,
> how?
> 
> I thought most people fenced their veg gardens to
> keep bunnies out.  does 
> that not work?
> 
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cyndi Johnson" <gardencatalogs@yahoo.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 1:58 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Canning beans!
> 
> 
> > Did my first canning of the season yesterday, got
> 9
> > jars of italian beans and 4 jars of regular green
> > beans. Not a great haul but not terrible. I was
> hoping
> > for some nice straight green beans to make dilly
> beans
> > with, but most of them were too curvy. I want to
> enter
> > the dilly beans in the fair and need the straight
> ones
> > for pretty presentation in the jars. I'll have
> another
> > 3 weeks probably before they finish, so we'll see
> what
> > I get. Problem is that hot weather tends to make
> them
> > curved.
> > I mentioned before that my husband has been
> getting
> > rid of the rabbits in the garden with his pellet
> gun.
> > He shot one yesterday too. After I was poking
> around
> > in the soybeans and this small critter goes
> skittering
> > away...it's a baby rabbit. My heart sank. There
> were 3
> > of them and were so small we were able to pick
> them
> > up. It felt evil to get rid of them, but in two
> months
> > husband would have been shooting them too. I'm not
> > feeling good about it nonetheless. I sure wish
> they'd
> > stay in the front yard where they can munch on
> grass
> > and clover to their heart's content.
> > Picked 11 summer squash and gave most of them away
> to
> > my friend, and picked the first ripe cherry
> tomatoes.
> > Interesting that there are not many cherry
> tomatoes on
> > the plant, usually they are amazingly prolific,
> > perhaps this variety doesn't like my climate.
> > No pepper plants to be seen at the stores - Home
> Depot
> > had 3 jalapeno plants is all, Lowes had nothing -
> if I
> > get out again I might try the nursery but I doubt
> > there will be anything. Planting season ended here
> in
> > mid-May. Still it was worth a look. I will take
> the
> > survivors and try covering the good parts of the
> stems
> > with dirt, maybe they'll add some roots. Doubtful
> but
> > no reason not to try it.
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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