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Re: Bush Bean Seedlings

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New  from Texas. Have you thought about trying an electric fence? it may do
the trick on the rabbits and dogs!
-----Original Message-----
From: Davis, Jeannette <JDavis@Actium.com>
To: 'Square Foot Gardening List ' <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: Bush Bean Seedlings


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>I've been thinking about fencing strategies as well.  We're currently
>renting a house, and plan to buy or build one in a few years.  Since I
won't
>be building my permanent garden until we own a house, I get to play with
the
>one I currently have, and learn from it.  Since I'm relatively new to
>gardening, I think of the garden as a sort of testing ground for lots of
>different things, from garden layout and spacing to fencing and just about
>everything else.  I know that anything I do now is not permanent, and
>therefore mistakes are simply learning tools.
>
>For my future garden, I envision a back yard that is completely fenced in,
>and a permanent garden area within that which would have a 3 foot high or
so
>picket type fence, or maybe even one like Mel shows in the book.  (The only
>requirement of DH is that this area has to look nice.)  Then I would
>reinforce that with chicken wire fencing, with the chicken wire buried into
>the ground.  I then plan on planting the perimeter of the fencing with
>flowers and maybe some herbs or ornamental veggies mixed in.
>
>Jeannette
>SW PA Zone 6
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: 16
>To: Square Foot Gardening List
>Sent: 8/25/99 9:55 AM
>Subject: Re: Bush Bean Seedlings
>
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>I have had problems with animals in my gardens too. I planted
>cucumbers about a month or so ago. They started to come up fine, then
>one day, they were gone. I planted the rest of the seeds ( I only had 4
>left) and protected the one plant that germinated by putting things
>around this plant. It grew fine. I even put one of those little fences
>around this part of the garden to keep  my golden retriever out of the
>gardens. Well, I hate to report that in spite of all this, my only
>cucumber plant left also disappeared. I have squash planted in another
>garden, but it looks like the same thing might be happening there. It
>starts off where the leaves look wilted, then the next day, the leaves
>are gone. After that, the stem disappears. My dog is so hyper, I could
>imagine that he could do that, but I have a fence around it and he would
>have to push through that and it would seem he would leave paw prints in
>the garden, but I don't see any. My next step is to build an area around
>the garden section, and make it like a huge garden, but put mulch in
>that area instead, making a walkway around each of the gardens, kind of
>like the one on the "Square Foot Gardening" book. Then put a little
>fence around all that. I may have to put a covering or netting over the
>top to reinforce animals staying out. I know this will cost alot of
>money, but if it isn't the animals eating the garden stuff, I need to
>find out what exactly it is.
>
>
>      Susan Seifert in Sunny Central Florida, Zone 9
>
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