Re: hellstrips now pulsatilla
- Subject: Re: hellstrips now pulsatilla
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:51:38 EDT
In a message dated 4/18/02 2:58:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sistermarya@juno.com writes:
<< Thanks Claire, I was about to do it wrong and save til fall, so am very
glad you mentioned it. Really bad luck with the rodents though. Do you
have a cat? >>
Marya,
I have had as many as five cats and still have rodents and more rodents. I
am pretty sure a good deal of it is planting ideal food plants in
concentrated areas. This encourages more breeding and more rodents. In
short it is the intense cultivation that produces the great numbers.
I have been beginning to put bulbs in various locations so that at least some
will survive . Yet that is not what is wanted. One wants drifts and swards
(how 'bout that word) of bulbs.
The cats do not like voles and rarely kill them. Sometimes they catch the
vole and let it go.
Just now we have one cat but some more will arrive, I am sure. I live in the
country with a house and a barn and get cats from time to time from heaven, I
guess. They are dumped in the area by folks who think a farm always can use
a few more cats. I was just offered two kittens who will go you know where
if we don't take them so maybe I will have three cats by the weekend.
Once we had a murderous cat named Nermal (from the Garfield strip) and when
she was around she went to work every morning and worked all day. She killed
everything in sight of the house including small snakes. I could love
another like her. Our present female cat is very spoiled and hunts when she
feels like it which is not often. She spends most of her time sitting on the
kitchen counter trying to turn on the faucet which sometimes is successful.
Never teach an animal any tricks. This one could run the well dry.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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