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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT gmail.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Detering Cats and Squirrels
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:13:29 -0400

Build a double fence around the garden and put that pug in the run...make him earn his keep. :)
I understand your frustration, though. Windstorms keep blowing my corn over. Yesterday a good storm almost took out my new kiwi vine when a 30 ft long, human torso sized sweetgum limb blew over and landed on my trellising wire for the kiwi. We just got the wire up last weekend. The limb missed the kiwi plant by about 6 inches. We were able to re-right most of our pole bean trellises(bamboo twisted and canked, but did not break!), but all the corn is a loss, I think. Another limb landed on the phone line to the house and not only brought down the line, but also ripped a posterboard sized chunk of siding right off the chimney(that's where the line attaches). Summer thunderstorm....

Selena Simonetti wrote:
I've had it. Absolutely had it. I had squirrels dig up 4 of my corn
seedlings, most of my carrots and very nearly a heirloom tomato plant! Cats
have been leaving multiple piles of crap all over my garden! I need to deter
and/or get rid of these little ba****rds ASAP. I have a small pug dog and I
don't want to use poison or anything that will harm the animals, but I just
want to get and keep them OUT of my garden. I'm so frustrated right now. All
this hard work being literally crapped on and dug up. What can I do?
*******
Selena Simonetti
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