permaculture

["Michelle Maggiore" <mmaggior@mindspring.com>]

I realize this was not the exact gist of the conversation, but I would like 
to add to all the good advice the importance of "birdproofing" your cats- 
that is, putting audible bells on their collars to alarm the birds that the 
cats are coming. My friend has several "rescued" cats and this is what she 
does. It seems to work well enough.
I don't think we will adopt a cat, as I am allergic to them, but several 
people have suggested cats might keep the poisonous snakes from mating near 
my back door (there have been several in the last year, between the back 
stoop and the tomatoes). 
Good luck....the advice about the skewer type additions in the beds is 
excellent! Thanks for that....
Cheers, 
Michelle

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