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Re: three questions

Rhonda,
Are your beds raised? If so you can place a piece of chicken wire over
the top of your bed, staple it down to hold it in place and your
seedlings should be able to grow right through the spaces in the wire.
As they grow you could probably just cut the wire to enlarge the holes
they are growing through. The wire is supposed to be uncomfortable for
the cats to walk on so maybe this will help. I haven't tried this method
yet but I sure hope it works because I was planning on using it this
year! I have problems with the cats going in my flower garden, on my
lawn and I'm sure that when I get around to the vegetable garden I'm
going to have problems there too. This was going to be included in my
spring projects of things to do to prepare the garden for the upcoming
year so please keep us posted on how it works out and what methods you
try. If you don't want to send the results to the list you can email me
directly. Good luck and welcome to the list!

Richard (Brooklyn, NY zone 6)
betzr@bdd.com
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From: Rhonda
To: Multiple recipients of list SQFT
Subject: three questions
Date: Thursday, March 13, 1997 11:32AM


Hello! I am new to this list and glad to have found others who like this
method of gardening!

I have a couple of questions:
1) I just recently started a garden this year again after letting last
year's go down the tubes due to neglect. I have one bed done (out of 4
plus
some other space in the yard) and already the neighborhood cats have
decided
to make it their litterbox (must be the freshly turned soil?).

How do you keep cats out of the beds? I have planted some lettuce,
radishes,
carrots and spinach as seeds and then a couple of tomatos and a bell
pepper
as plants and there is a staked side of the box for my sweet pea flowers
now
and later peas and beans, so it is not easy to just put something down
over
the top of the whole box. I went out this morning and half of the radish
section was dug up (yesterday it was the lettuce).

The cats are general neighbor cats that we do feed and watch out for so
that
probably encourages them too much, and I have never made an effort to
send
them away. Of course the digging happens at night and when I am not
outside
to watch.

Any suggestions?

2) I am in Sacramento, Calif... anyone else on this list from my area? I
would like to talk to you about things to plant and local sources, etc.
as
I
have rather neglected my garden space the last few years and think I
need
some encouragement as well as wanting to talk with people who are into
this
in my area.

3) Does anyone on this list keep a garden journal? Either online or by
hand?
I would love to be pointed to URLS of any online journals as I have just
started putting mine online and it seems so bare.

Thanks and glad to be here!
Rhonda



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