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  • From: KAKerby AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] salad mix
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:53:58 EDT

Did you have easier or harsher weather this winter?  We've noticed an uptick in the rodent population here after an amazingly easy winter.  I wonder with the wacky weather around the country this winter if that tipped the scales in their favor somehow.
Kathryn Kerby
Frog Chorus Farm
Snohomish, WA
 
In a message dated 3/24/2010 12:51:22 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cjmaness AT juno.com writes:
I do have a lot more lettuce than greens.  I guess I will just have to play around with what I end up with and when I think it looks about right, then I'll have my mix!
Voles or whatever: the holes in the ground are small, about quarter, to maybe half dollar size. Not much in the way of dirt piled around each hole.
Whatever it is, they aren't bothering the lettuce at all. It is just the Cole crops. And, the crops are just barely starting to leaf out again, so I guess if we can keep pepper spray on them, the chewing will stop.
We've got dogs, we've got cats, we've got coyotes, hawks, owls. Plenty of natural predators so I don't get why it is so bad this year.
We did not plow our fields this year though. Weather wouldn't allow it, and we mowed off crop residue from last year, tilled and planted. I don't know why that would make a difference, but it is the only thing I can think of that we have done differently.
Carla
Perkins, OK

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