Re: Looking for the weekend!

what kind of a dog do you have?  Hope it doesn't catch
some kind of disease by eating all the wildlife.

Donna

--- Bonnie Holmes <holmesbm@usit.net> wrote:

> Also wish I could have some chickens.  I have been
> buying organic stuff
> locally and recently had a delightful carton of eggs
> with hues from brown
> to green. 
> 
> My dog Biscuit catches squirrels and voles.  As we
> walk, she suddenly
> burrows in a mass of leaves and comes up with a
> vole.  It must not be very
> tasty because she plays with it like a cat, kills
> it, and leaves it.  The
> rabbits and squirrels she eats.
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Date: 3/27/2006 2:30:22 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Looking for the weekend!
> >
> > You made me wish once more that I could keep a few
> chickens here. They 
> > are such great animals. And, you're right, nothing
> makes them happier 
> > than a barrel of weeds--unless it's a coffee can
> full of tomato 
> > hornworms.
> >
> > Gophers can really be a nuisance in a garden,
> orchard, and pasture. One 
> > July 4th my father dropped cherry bombs down all
> the gopher holes in 
> > our back yard--causing plumes of smoke to rise
> throughout the 
> > neighborhood.
> >
> >
> > On Mar 27, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ
> 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
> >
> > > I'm only cutting back the vegetable garden, so I
> can concentrate on 
> > > getting
> > > the ornamental gardens back into shape. So far
> so good, I planted 
> > > lettuce
> > > seed yesterday and used up all last year's
> packets. I think lettuce 
> > > seed is
> > > one of those things better planted with fresh
> seed but it should be 
> > > okay.
> > > I wasn't planning on buying much for either
> garden, but when I looked 
> > > at all
> > > the bare spots in the ornamental areas I
> rationalized that planting new
> > > things would inspire me to even more
> maintenance. Yes, that's the 
> > > ticket.
> > > Anyway I didn't get the plants for the back
> fence in the ground. I 
> > > forgot
> > > that the irrigation controller for that part
> broke earlier in the 
> > > winter and
> > > husband has not fixed it yet. Since he was busy
> too it will have to 
> > > wait for
> > > next weekend. I did put in all the salvias and
> erigonum (buckwheat) in 
> > > my
> > > dry garden. And I weeded for a couple hours in
> there and dumped 4 
> > > barrels of
> > > grass for the chickens - they were happy. I got
> about half of it done 
> > > so
> > > that was good.
> > > We trapped six gophers just this weekend and
> there are mounds 
> > > absolutely
> > > everywhere. Husband set more traps amongst the
> fruit trees, in the dry
> > > garden, well just about everywhere we have
> plants we want to keep. You 
> > > would
> > > not believe my back yard. Between the lawn and
> the veggie garden fence 
> > > there
> > > is a lot of empty space we don't do anything
> with. My dogs have been 
> > > digging
> > > for gophers back there and it looks like the
> trenches of WWI. I guess I
> > > won't need to clip their nails for awhile.
> > > At least the weather was reasonable. Saturday
> was windy and cold but 
> > > we were
> > > working a garage sale so I didn't care much.
> Sunday was mostly 
> > > overcast but
> > > at least it was not windy, and it was relatively
> warm. We're expecting 
> > > rain
> > > again tomorrow - let it rain during the week,
> that's what I ask.
> > >
> > > Cyndi
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net
> [o*@hort.net] On 
> > > Behalf
> > > Of Donna
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:09 AM
> > > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Looking for the weekend!
> > >
> > > So how much did you get done.... and I thought
> you
> > > were cutting back this year? LOL! We all seem to
> have
> > > the same problem, lotsa willpower till the
> season
> > > actually gets here.
> > >
> > > Donna
> > >
> > > --- Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT
> > > <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
> > >
> > >> We finally are having some nice days, I hope it
> > >> lasts through the weekend.
> > >> I'm helping at a garage sale tomorrow but
> Sunday I
> > >> have much planting to do.
> > >> I bought a whole bunch o' stuff at Theodore
> Payne's
> > >> (my poor credit card!),
> > >> and my order from Forestfarm showed up too so
> there
> > >> is no shortage of
> > >> plants.
> > >> I'm going to get serious about trying to hide
> the
> > >> neighbor in back of us but
> > >> the plants I put in have to be tough. Thus all
> the
> > >> natives from Payne's. I
> > >> bought 3 different kinds of saltbush - atriplex
> > >> polycarpa, atriplex
> > >> canescens, and atriplex lentiformis. None of
> them
> > >> are terribly attractive
> > >> but they will take just about anything. We have
> > >> atriplex canescens already
> > >> back there and it is about 7' tall now, the
> quail
> > >> just love to hide in it.
> > >> Since another of my wants is to provide cover
> and
> > >> food for birds I'm hoping
> > >> they all do well. Considering how much less
> habitat
> > >> the critters have these
> > >> days they might need my place.
> > >> What is it about developers anyway. There are
> > >> millions of acres of flat
> > >> desert out here with nothing on it but
> rabbitbush
> > >> tumbleweeds and alkali. Do
> > >> they build there, NO, they buy up the juniper
> > >> woodland in the foothills, the
> > >> places with the biggest biodiversity we have
> here -
> > >> hundreds and hundreds of
> > >> species - and then they bulldoze it, pave it
> and put
> > >> up houses. Makes me so
> > >> mad I could spit. Not to mention that part of
> what
> > >> is currently being
> > >> bulldozed used to be city nature park, the city
> just
> > >> rolled over and showed
> > >> the developers their throat. Sure, take
> whatever you
> > >> want, just promise us
> > >> taxes. Citizen complaints are met with smiles
> and
> > >> nods and no action. Of
> > >> course now the housing bubble is popping, who
> knows
> > >> maybe they'll just stop
> > >> after bulldozing everything.
> > >> Oops didn't mean to go on a rant.
> > >> Anyway. I also bought 3 sambucus mexicana, an
> > >> elderberry, as an experiment.
> > >> There is one growing in a canyon where we go
> hiking
> 
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