My daughters kindly dug it all up for me but I was so slow that it was as hard as a rock by the time I was ready to plant. So I spent 2 days digging again. Most of my tomato plants I had bought died before I got them out there, so I ordered more from Burpee. Unfortunately they didn’t send them all and I haven’t received a reply to my email yet. Then I looked out the backdoor last evening and there was a huge old groundhog heading for my tomato plants! I went running out there screaming “Get out of my yard!”. It worked :p
After researching live traps, which it’s hard to catch groundhogs, and then do you know in some places you have to have permission to let them loose on peoples property (like out in the country) and a lot of places you can’t loose them on state property. So, being that I don’t want him as a pet, then I read about poison pellets and decided that was the way to go. Only when I got to the hardware store they didn’t have anything except rat poison, which might work. But who wants to risk killing neighborhood cats and dogs wandering about? So he told me this Fox Urine Granules is all I need. I hope he’s right. If it works I might not even have to share my corn with the raccoons this year or the beets with the rabbits.
I hope everything grows fabulously this year. I saw on CNN about a fellow who started a website to list food pantries all over the country that will take fresh produce. I’m hoping I’ll have enough to share.
I can’t wait for zucchini, I just love that stuff. This year I am feeling 100% better than I was last year at this time so I am ready to deal with the garden and even the critters. 🙂
I’m so glad you are feeling better this year and that you are having fun with your garden. Sometimes just being outside and digging in the dirt is so therapeutic! I spend to much time in front of this silly machine!
That link to Gardeners Sharing is WONDERFUL! I’m sending it off to all my friends! I know in our little residential neighborhood last year everyone had to many tomatoes! I only have 2 tomato plants but it is more than we will eat — it always is — so hopefully this year I can share with people who could really use it! Thanks for the link! Kc
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I know, I thought that site was awesome! It’s nice to know your food can go to people who really need it.
I have a long way to go but last year I felt like I wasn’t going to make it another year. It’s good to not feel crummy all the time 😉
Hi Sliloh
Good to hear that you are doing your bit to fill the larders of the country.
I’m not a fruit and veg grower but I do love the garden.
Most of this summer will be taken up cutting down large shrubs that were tiny little things when we planted them.
This weekend will be a mixture of world cup football and gardening… might even find time for a couple of glasses of white wine. LOL
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Hi Keith,
This is only my 4th year at being a gardener and I’m not sure you can count the first year, but I love it and it’s been good for me. Since there is only me here I should have lots of extras for food pantries.
Shrubs can really get out of hand after a few years, sounds like you have your work cut out for you. I think football and wine is suitable reward. 😉
Great news that you are feeling so much better!
I miss taking your blogging class, but things are so busy around here, I would love to take it again, as I learned a whole lot.
Do be really careful of using any poisons in or near a garden, house, or anywhere. As you can get ‘secondary kills’, this means that the animal who is poisoned cannot run or get away from your cat or your dog. And, if your pet eats it, they will ingest the poison too.
Its really awful, so never use that method. Either go with the coyote urine, that works well, though you have to re-apply it after a rain. Or use the Have-a-Heart traps and transport the animal to the woods away from your property. People say its against the law, but you are saving the animal by moving him. Its the most humane way.
We have a new crop of bunnies, but they feast on our clover and leave the gardens alone.
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