RE: This and that
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  • Subject: RE: This and that
  • From: &* C* D* C* U* A* 9* C* <c*@edwards.af.mil>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 07:51:42 -0700
Rabbits can sure get through small holes. I'm continually amazed at how
what looks like a sizable rabbit can whip right through a three-inch
opening in the wire fence. 
The critter population has been astounding this year. We have been
taking fatal measures against them but there are always more. I would be
interested to know what happens if you try the bleach. I think, given
the dry soil in my area and relative lack of insects and worms, I could
do that without a lot of collateral damage, although it seems that if it
doesn't kill them off they would just move a little and make new holes
other places.  

Cyndi 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Daryl
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:50 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] This and that

Auralie,

Bleach is very toxic to soil micro-organisms as well as beneficial
insects 
and earthworms. Also to any skin or eye surface it might contact while
wet.

Chipmunks do not typically eat plants. They're primarily seed eaters.
I'd 
bet anything that they're not the culprit in your loss of lettuce,
radish 
and beans. Bet it was the woodchuck or a rabbit, despite the fence.

d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 9:18 AM
Subject: [CHAT] This and that


> Two very trivial matters:
>    Is anyone else an addict of crossword puzzles as I am? There is 
> research
> to indicate that regular crosswords can delay mental deterioration,
and
> since
> I always have enjoyed them, I make a practice of beginning each day
with a
> crossword.  For a long time I have gone to The Daily Crossword Index
at
> _http://puzzles.about.com/library/features/blxwdind.htm_
> (http://puzzles.about.com/library/features/blxwdind.htm)   I have
found 
> that
> sometimes the Saturday puzzle would be a repeat of a previous one, but
> this week the whole week's selection have been repeats.  Annoying!
>
>  On a more garden-related issue, I have been told at a recent garden
club
> meeting that one person controls moles, woodchucks, and other boring
> pests by pouring bleach into the holes.  Have any of you heard of
this?
> Chipmunks are driving me nuts - they have made holes everywhere and
> are nibbling everything.  I bought a big bottle of Clorox yesterday,
and
> will
> go out and pour it in some holes - see what will happen.
>
>  This has been a disastrous garden season for me.  I had very modest
> success with peas, but early heat put an end to them.  Lettuce started
> out well.  I always mix radish seed with my lettuce seed when I plant
> them - thin the lettuce by taking out the radishes as they grow.  When
> the lettuce got up enough to start taking small ones for "mesclun" 
> someone,
> probably chipmunks because the vegetable garden is fenced, first ate
> all the lettuce, leaving the radishes.  Next day they took the
radishes.
> My beans were looking great, and I thought at least they were too big
> for the chippies to eat, but someone else, must have been a woodchuck,
> got in and in one day finished all the beans, just as they were
beginning
> to bloom.
>
> Normally I would have pulled out the peas after they finished, and put
> Kentucky Wonder beans along the fence, but I was deterred by an extra
> heavy work load, combined with the crashed computer. By the time I got
> those things sorta under control, the extreme heat made me feel it was
> unwise to spend time working in the garden.  And now that the beans
> have been eaten, I wonder if it's worth the effort.  The heat has
abated
> somewhat - high yesterday was only 91, and today's high is predicted
> to be in the upper 80s, but it's drier than ever.  I can only haul so
much
> water, and don't dare run the hose any length of time since we are on
a
> well.  Lots of things are just turning brown, and not just mine - I
see it
> everywhere.  The weather this year has been insane!
>
> Sorry for the long rant - just needed toget it off my chest.
> Auralie

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