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From: stanberry <stanberry@knowledge-tree.com>
To: <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: Pumpkin strip.


> Pattie:
> Try an experiment, I don't promise it will work but it is worth the
effort.
> I have read the following in various magazines: Ask your friends to save
> doggie poop for you in bags and decorate your most exposed garden with it,
> the bigger the dog the better.  Also save human urine daily and use it
> around the edges of the garden (gross-huh?). This is something along the
> lines of what cats and other animals do to mark the territory.  I have
read
> that this is somewhat effective at keeping out four legged predators.
But,
> if they are hungry enough - they will go anywhere.
> Leila @
> MuslimaLeila@hotmail.com
>
> pattie@juno.com wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:15:43 -0500 stanberry
> > <stanberry@knowledge-tree.com> writes:
> > >Pattie:
> > >Depending on how creative (or how big your family and friends group
> > >is) may
> > >I recommend that you get
> > >    1. cucumbers (some love! to climb fences - especially with a
> > >little help
> > >from ties made from the cutting strips from plastic trash bags)
> > >    2. depending on how good/bad the soil is- cantaloupes.
> > >    3. any of the squash family: pumpkins, winter squash, spaghetti
> > >squash,
> > >acorn squash, zucchini, summer yellow squash, etc
> > >    4. if the deer aren't extremely terrible you can use the fence to
> > >support tomatoes also.
> >
> > Unfortunately.  1.  My deer love to eat the cucumber flowers and those
> > that get to be cucumbers, well, the deer take one bite out of each.
> > 2.  My deer love to eat the flowers off of these as well.
> > 3.  My deer love the squash family of flowers and really love the
> > zukes that make it to the baby stage.
> > I grow tomatoes, peppers, onions, cantaloupes, zukes, strawberries,
> > grapes, cukes, gourds and some other things inside my electric
> > fence.  That is the only way that I get anything.
> >      So, Nancy, I thank you for your concideration but will have to
> > ask you to think harder and try again to help me out.
> >
> > And Carol,  super idea with the mini pumpkins. (Does having mice
> > do the work for you make you Cinderella?)  I think I will plant
> > some in my neighbors yard and then let my grandchildren harvest
> > them in the fall.  Maybe the mini pumpkins will escape the deer if
> > I aim them into my neighbor's bushes.
> >      Stan              the cheap and lazy gardener
> > P.S.    Pumpkin:    The other orange flower.
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