[Market-farming] Deer Fencing

Willie McKemie mf at austinfarm.org
Fri May 29 07:34:27 EDT 2009


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:21:38AM +0000, cjmaness at juno.com wrote:
> Perkins, OK This has got to be the year of the tick. My gosh! Or tater bug! Bugs everywhere, on everything!

What! No fire ants?  Thirty years ago, we had to pick ticks off the 
dogs (and ourselves) daily.  Then, the fire ants came in.  Now, we 
might go a complete year and not see a tick.  Reminds me of the joke:
Two hippies were living off in the woods of east Texas.  They were kept 
awake nights by the incessant croaking of frogs.  They would go out 
every once in a while and shout at them.  The frogs would go silent.  
But for only a few minutes.  At the local farmers market, one hippie 
came across a guy selling baby alligators.  He bought several and 
released them in their ponds.  Silence.  Sweet silence.  "What 
happened?  Where are the frogs?" asked the other hippie.  "I released 
some alligators.  Isn't it wonderful?"  "Yeah, now we only have 
alligators.  Growing larger daily.  And reproducing.  Looking for 
things to eat."

Our fence might do some good on coyotes; we generally loose no more 
than half the watermelon to coyotes.  Coyotes don't seem to bother our 
cantaloupe.

Last year, for the first time, we had some trouble with birds 
(presumably crows) ruining a large fraction of our tomatoes.  Scare 
Eyes seemed to have helped.  I've had crows dig up entire rows of 
freshly planted pea seed.  They also take a noticeable fraction of our 
peaches.

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Willie, ONWARD!  Through the fog!
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