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Re: three questions

Hi Rhonda:

Welcome to the list. Just got back from checking out your website --
*very* nice! I really enjoyed your journal page, and will be back as
the season progresses. I keep a written journal in the big, green
10-year one from Lee Valley Tools; it's great for tracking weather,
plans and plants, etc. from year to year.

Sounds like the other sq.-footers have given you plenty of good
cat-deflection advice; I haven't tried the chicken wire technique
myself, but it makes sense. What I have done to keep rabbits (and
squirrels, chipmunks, cats, etc.) out of my square beds is to use the
hardware-cloth 'cages' that I made. Mel shows one made out of chicken
wire on pg. 131, in the "Structures to Build" chapter. I used 1/2"
opening hardware-cloth because it has more structural integrity than
chicken wire and it keeps the chippies out, which chicken wire
doesn't. When things get big enough that I have to remove the cage, I
mulch the bare soil with shredded bark and haven't had any further
intruder problems. Once the snow melts off my octagons, I put a ring
of chicken wire around them to keep the neighborhood cats out -- so
far it has worked, though they could easily jump over the fence, I'd
think. Hope some of this helps, and good luck with your garden!

Happy trails.....

     Sue Drake
     Southeastern WI -- USDA zone 4b/5a
... An immaculate house is the sign of a mis-spent life ...

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On Thursday, March 13, 1997 10:32 AM, you wrote:
>
> Hello! I am new to this list and glad to have found others who like
this
> method of gardening!
>  <<<snip>>>
> 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).
>    <<<snip>>>
> 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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