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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Sep 24, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Strata R Chalup wrote:

> Gene,
>
> Planting new trees in a chicken-wire-lined hole will preserve  
> them.  Until then, I hear they make a good substitute for pork in  
> many recipes, especially BBQ.

Well, thanks, that would get the tree established before the wire  
rotted. The bigger issue is garden beds. I very much look forward to  
ferrocement walls on seriously raised beds. Put some hardware cloth,  
crushed glass, punctured plastic panels or such at the bottom to  
deter the voles and moles, and I believe one could garden with no  
more than Zeus to contend with.

I don't eat pork. These things are so nasty I would not know where to  
start to prepare them for eating. Hairy, dirty, carapaced, just  
basically repulsive.