[Market-farming] Test
breck
bcarden at breckinridgegroup.com
Mon Sep 29 21:49:45 EDT 2008
I seldom see a rabbit in my garden and I put plant trays under a couple of
drip lines at the head of the row for a water source plus there is a pond
200' away. My new lines had many little punctures this past week. I'm
guessing a small animal like a vole.
Breck
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:01:33 GMT, cjmaness at juno.com wrote:
> We haven't had any rain since the hurricane 2 weeks ago.Even then most of
> that moisture missed us. So, water, water, water. And, whatever it is that
> chews on the drip tape is doing it again, so I can't simply turn the water
> on. Oh no. I have to walk each and every line, making repairs every 10
feet
> or so.
I'm guessing the rabbits are chewing the tape because they need the water.
If you can't get rid of the rabbits, I wonder if creating some small water
troughs in your fields might solve this--it would give them an easier
source, and might cut down on the chewing. Last October, which was extremely
dry here in Massachusetts, I was losing lots of raspberries because the
yellow jackets were eating the tips out. I watered more, and got the leaves
wet, and they started drinking that, instead of raspberry juice.
--
Richard Robinson
http://www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/
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