Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Here we tried several deterrents, short of fencing, including blood meal.
But with almost zero rain from Jan to July, the critters were eating
anything remotely green, which turned out to be mostly the bare root
juneberries and small elms we set out shortly after relocating here. We
figured they're drawn to water so kept water out for them, but that didn't
satisfy them. Last summer it was the same story with Jerusalem artichokes.
We gave them other sources of greens and water but they still kept them
mowed down. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. 
--Henry David Thoreau 
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On 9/20/2006 at 1:32 PM Wayne wrote:

>Does this include male urine?
> Not that I produce that much, but maybe enough to help.
> We have so many rabbits around here that I am thinking about the idea of 
>nabbing a few for dinner.
> Don't want them eating my garden when I get it put in, and need to also 
>keep out ground squirrels and chipmunks.
> Plus I understand we have pack rats around here.
> I have a good amount of chicken wire that will keep out all but the
>smaller 
>critters, but need some of it for future chicken yard/coop.
> West Texas near Fort Stockton
>
>Wayne WA2YNE
>www.desert-rat.com
>Imperial Texas
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <uriel@nasalam.org>
>To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
><livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:12 AM
>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Planting Jerusalem artichokes
>
>
>> Well, I've posted this before -- I've found that utilizing urine
>> around the garden keeps the rabbits away.  We have lots of bunnies
>> running around here in the Ozarks, but they leave my garden alone.
>> Uriel / SW Missouri
>>
>> TradingPostPaul wrote:
>>> Well, Barb here agrees with you so I'm outvoted.  But the rabbits
>>> got the sprouts last year so besides preparing some ground I'll have
>>> to put up some chicken wire around the plot. paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>
>
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