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[Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>]

Come on, this is a neighborhood, with kids in it, not farmland. If there isn't a local ordinance against electric fences, there should be.

Oh, and I got my gooseberries from Whitman Farms:
http://www.whitmanfarms.com/
which has the best gooseberry selection I've seen. I think the first shipment was lost in the mail, but she sent me a replacement as soon as I complained. They look nice.

Melissa

--- On Tue, 5/12/09, Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com> wrote:

From: Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Neighbors
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 5:26 PM

Build an electric fence.

---- Original Message ----
From: mijwiz@yahoo.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Neighbors
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:48:37 -0700 (PDT)

>My husband and I are ripping our lawn up to plant all sorts of good
>things. Our next door neighbor, who has a pretty big lawn, is
>allergic to grass, so he can't mow his own lawn, and he's practically
>under house arrest when others mow their lawns. One wonders why he
>has a lawn himself. Anyway, his wife said their ambition is to plant
>a 4 x 8 foot garden in their lawn this year. I wish them luck.
>
>I should be out planting gooseberries, which finally arrived today.
>You NAFEXers advised me that the deer won't bother them. I hope
>you're right. The deer ate my tomato plants to the ground last year
>before we built a better deer fence. Then something got into the deer
>fence and ate a hot pepper plant, peppers and all. We're building a
>better fence this year.
>
>Melissa