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Re: Bush Bean Seedlings

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We have found that allowing our dogs to roam between the raised beds every once in a while and letting all  hair we can harvest from
our chows and golden retirever settle in the garden really helps to keep the wild critters abay.  I take the dog hair and form
baseball size balls with it and tuck into the corners of the raised beds.  Have not lost any of my veggies to the "wild" ones since
starting this a number of years ago.  I have a friend who tucks it in his apple trees with the same positive effect.  I have seen
rabbits and deer in other parts of our yard, but they do not go near the gardens.  Deany, zone 4/Green Bay area

"EDMUND C. FLYNN" wrote:

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> "Davis, Jeannette" wrote:
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> <many snips>
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> > "something", I'm thinking a groundhog, ate through the fence.
>
> >(I went to the store last night and bought chicken wire to reinforce >the bottom half of the  fence.  Problem solved, hopefully.)
> >
> > My question to everyone is whether or not they will recover and grow new leaves, or has the groundhog won round 1?
>
>         I don't know about round 1, but that hog may well win round 2 if you
> rely on chicken wire. To thwart the rapacious critters I had to buy 4
> foot foot fencing .. split it into 2 foot lengths (couldn't find 2 foot
> fencing Then I bent the fencing  to a right angle and attached the upper
> foot to the existing fence while the lower foot extended out onto the
> ground away from the fence.
>
>         Ground hogs had dug under the fence before, but couldn't dig anymore as
> the fence extending out at ground level defeated them.
>
>         I found this easier than burying wire.
>
> Good Luck     Ed  Flynn
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