Re: GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers

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My deer fencing, besides keeping the deer out, blends in quite well, and in 
a number of sunny spots I've got grape vines growing on it. I like it.

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From: "Susan McCoy" <susan@gardenmediagroup.com>
To: "'Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum'" 
<gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>; "'Judy Lowe'" <hardbackwryter@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers

> By far, hands down our worst pest in the yard is deer.  They are like rats 
> with longer legs, larger mouths and bigger stomachs. I'm using the new 
> Spray Away Elite motion activated sprinkler. It's from our client 
> Havahart. It's really working. I also sprayed some Deer Off on some 
> particular plants I don't want to risk losing. That's all that seems to 
> works. I don't want a fence, and the dog sleeps inside at night.
>
> Suzi McCoy
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> [g*@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Cathy Barash
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:16 PM
> To: 'Judy Lowe'; 'Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum'
> Subject: Re: [GWL] GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers
>
> Judy,
>
> I'm still trying to get the info my story and original query...
> So rats were your worst garden pest. How did you deter/control/eliminate 
> them?
>
> Anyone else? I don't have any "experts" from New England, Midwest, 
> Southwest, or Pacific Northwest.  You must have conquered or dealt with 
> the worst garden pest in your region.
>
> Cheers,
> Cathy
>
> Cathy Wilkinson Barash
> Senior Editor, Garden Gate
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> From: Judy Lowe [h*@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:12 AM
> To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [GWL] GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers
>
> This groundhog discussion is the most entertaining thread we've had in a 
> long time! :-)
>
>
> I was especially interested when the subject of rats came up. When I lived 
> in Boston (Back Bay area; a block from Symphony Hall), rats were a huge 
> problem; they were about the size of squirrels. The first years we lived 
> in our rowhouse, we had no problem with them being destructive to plants. 
> (I grew everything from roses and shrubs to herbs and tomatoes in big 
> containers.) But then a rat family (colony?) moved in next door where the 
> young couple built a foot-high raised wooden platform behind their 
> rowhouse (over 1870s brick yet), and the rats made a home underneath. The 
> last two years we were in Boston, they ate everything from seedlings to 
> clematis blooms. They were somewhat deterred by thorny rosebush prunings 
> stuck thickly around the edge of the pots.
>
> But talking about rats in your garden was always a "yuck" to others, so I 
> kept quiet about them (most of the time) and listened to suburbanites' 
> deer tales.
>
> As to the city residents moving to the country, I, too, get tickled that 
> so often they destroy the very things that appealed to them about the 
> country. When we lived in Tennessee, I disliked the dusk-to-dawn lights 
> that were always installed by these folks when they moved to our vicinity. 
> Made it hard to see the stars at night.
>
> Judy Lowe
>
>
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