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Come on, birdies! Insect buffet, plus wash it down for free as well!
I'm about ready to start a succulent garden. The trick I'm told is proper DRAINAGE of the soil and, of course, very little watering.
We lived on a sand dune in Boise and succulents were easy. Got some hens 'n chicks here in the damp UP, but they seem to doing okay. Of course, we're a couple of blocks from the beach and the yard is mostly sand here too.
We had some stone plants (lithops) one year but the winter damp zapped them. Pretty fun but they're finicky. Have to mark them well or you'll have trouble finding them in your garden. (link)
Can't beat aloe plants.
I learned to not exchange money at the airport because of the percentage they charged, so I'd typically buy "stuff" at the airport(good shopping at Schiphol).
I ended up bringing a total of about 400 bulbs home, and my wife was planting them all over the yard...was really beautiful...but something ate them, a bit at a time...
Gopher?
They're just a rodent with a tail, and everyone loves them because they look cute! It's a pretty RAT!
Daffodil bulbs are toxic so those don't have that problems. Tulips are tasty, though.
That's what the rats tell me.
Maybe one of these years I'll see a lynx.
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Here in Ohio, we have voles and chipmonks that like to live in the soft beds for the colder periods. They eat bulbs and roots anytime of year. I spent all summer capturing the chipmonks in a chipmonk trap when they came to our mulch deep bed in the front of the house in a recess which probably stays warmer through the winter. I released the chipmonks at a nearby animal sanctuary.
The voles required peanut butter on mousetraps and the didn't get relocated.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
You have to re-sprinkle every couple weeks.
Is this packaged ground pepper? Or pepper ground fresh from the corns?
That's an idea we'll try because it may discourage the chipmonks. Maybe even the voles would give up.
I can see guests walking past the bed that the chipmonks and voles like and sneezing from the pepper smell while waiting for us to open the door!
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Tomorrow I'm cutting some horse tails from a friend's garden to use as a screen for the back deck. They'll be in large pots. You don't wanna put horsetails in the ground or they'll get away from you. I hope to keep the horsetails about 1 inch under water, so as to attract frogs next month.
Finally getting large numbers of birds to my feeders---hummingbirds, goldfinch, bush [non-permissible content removed], oregon junkos, nut hatches, tooheys (sp?), blue jays (big suckers!), house finch, hummers. Crows and vultures near the creek of course.
My main animal problem is squirrels digging into my succulent garden. I may have to get out the old pellet gun and I have warned them that I am a very very good shot.
I have chip munks...may have to borrow that gun. They chewed up a wiring harness to the tune of $700! :sick:
That makes the gun a sure-fire investment. Pardon the pun.
How does roasted squirrel taste?
Okay, I have an irrigation question, so please see NEXT POST and give me your advice, everyone!
What I'd like to do is grow the veggies in RAIN GUTTERS secured to the back fence.
Since there won't be a great deal of soil (no problem, the veggie roots will grow nicely laterally if I space them well enough), I will have to water frequently.
Sooooo, I was thinking:
1. Can I run a BURIED soaker hose through the length of the gutter (20 foot, with drain holes)?
2. If so, what diameter soaker hose?
3. AND, how do you hook this up to a regular garden hose so that i can just use a spigot to water the veggies?
They do make ready-made 50 foot soaker hoses with garden hose connections but they are rather large diameter and besides I can't use 50 feet.
Seems like everyone in Boise but me had a residential sprinkler system. The big box stores were full of parts so maybe you could just get a couple of connectors and a bit of hose, but the kit may wind up being cheaper, if overkill for what you need.
Don't know why you couldn't hook it up to a hose with a Y connector or a quick release or an on/off valve, instead of controlling it from the house tap. Could put it on a timer too.
My wife thinks you'd need a lot of holes punched in the gutters to keep the plants from getting sogged out.
I will need drain holes but there's also not a lot of soil that you can put in a gutter--just evap alone will account for some.
That kit is overkill for my plans but it does inspire me to look for simpler ones--thanks!
also I want a soaker hose, not a drip. The roots of these veggies will be growing laterally, not down, so I think I need to soak the entire soil evenly.
Not many stoners here in Sonoma...we grow grapes. One has to go up to Mendocino for the herbs.
Looks like frost Monday night so good chance that'll zap the pears.
My rain gutter veggie garden has been a great success--I'm already eating it! Contrary to some observations by local gardeners, the shallowness of the gutter did not in fact stunt the plants--of course these were not root vegetables. And the height of the gutters, wired to the fence, makes maintenance easy (no bending over), keeps them away from critters, too.
And replanting for the next rotation is easy, too. Just scoop out the old dirt with a trowel in one long FOOP, then add new soil, fertilize and stick in the starters every 8" or so. Replace the drip line and bingo, you're ready to go in about an hour or less.
The Hyacinths are past peak, same with cherry trees. Dogwoods look good. It's a nice spring if you're not bothered by the pollen.
Now, in about 6 weeks, I'll get to enjoy Spring all over again here in the UP (where it was ~25 degrees overnight; the pears fortunately look fine, still in bud stage).
Enough stuff is out that people are sniffling though.
Shifty, my sister is a big gardener. She's got an 8' section of gutter she's going to plant with something. Have to tell her to hang it somewhere and save her back.
Beautiful year.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,