Re: This and that
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  • From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 19:26:10 -0500
I've considered offering them to troubled friends, but it seems crude.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "BONNIE_HOLMES" <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net> 
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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] This and that



Market them.

Bonnie
ETN Zone 7
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net> 
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Sent: Friday, July 9, 2010 7:23:57 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [CHAT] This and that

Bleach is a bad idea for the reasons previously stated.
I have found the best (most successfull as well as environmentally friendly) 
solution is scooped cat litter.
The cat pees, I scoop the nice round patty, place it over the chipmunk hole, 
and they don't come back. They'll push out bricks, soil, anything else you
put in their way, but no pee patties.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "BONNIE_HOLMES" <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net> 
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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] This and that



I agree. One thing you might try is to put those narrow strips with
spikes used to put down carpet along your plant rows. Bet the rabbits
wouldn't like to feel those spikes; or put along your fence.


Bonnie
ETN Zone 7
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daryl" <dp2413@comcast.net> 
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Sent: Friday, July 9, 2010 9:49:40 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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> 
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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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