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Post by flowerbug on May 29, 2020 15:12:35 GMT -5
grape leaves also work for dolmades.
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Post by steev on Jun 1, 2020 18:44:00 GMT -5
They're iconic; I may be the first to use Patience Dock.
Saw a ground squirrel scooting into the veggie corral; that may be what got all my peas and carrots; time to get the pellet gun! I have no animus toward any critter as long as it isn't being a pest, but I'm not planting crops for them to harvest; let them get by on what was around before I came to enrich the environment.
Went to Colusa to deal with delays on my construction and to see about a small tractor and implements; saw not one person in a mask; big contrast to the Bay Area.
Last week, entering GrossOut, the guy behind me had a mask down and was confronting the security guard from ~1.5", demanding to see a manager; the guard asked to what purpose; the guy declared "All these rules are persecuting your customers!" I turned to say "100,000 people are dead of this in the US alone!" He said "That's not true!" Ooookay. Ignorance is not bliss; it's the spread of covid 19, even to people who may not be ignorant.
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Post by reed on Jun 2, 2020 5:40:46 GMT -5
Very few people wearing masks here Such a simple, easy thing but apparently just too much trouble or too complicated for trumpanzees to handle.
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Post by steev on Jun 2, 2020 9:59:33 GMT -5
Well, perfectly understandable, since it's all a "Democrat hoax".
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Post by steev on Jun 8, 2020 1:41:19 GMT -5
A gopher seems to have eaten 95% of my garlic; damn!
Set out tomato plants and distributed bags of bunny beans to mulch more trees; The deer clean out the alfalfa from that, but the important part is that the remains will fertilize the trees when the rains return and mulch to hold moisture thereafter.
The Flame Tokay on the arbor seem to be making relatively few puny bunches, which I'm pinching off; now it just looks like keeping the birds from ruining them, to get a good harvest.
The second grain to appear OTF was largely shattered by hard winds the past week; oh well, doubtless it will sprout next Spring and increase; as the first has done every year. Since these take no care, I'm pleased to have them as potential poultry chow.
My helper has started school, which will mean he can't come to work until 1PM; gonna be a PITA, but there it is. I'd not have survived if I couldn't adapt.
Deer have come back with a vengeance; I liked it better when the cougar were around; they don't want my veggies and I don't feel threatened by them; apex predators tend to respect each other's space.
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Post by flowerbug on Jun 9, 2020 18:28:23 GMT -5
i must have fences here if i want much return on my efforts. the chipmunks are raiding my strawberries now, but not too many so far. i will hunt them if i can see them. i don't like to do it but it must be done. for the first time i may even get some edamame soy beans this season. due to the hunting i have done so far i actually have the plants growing for a change.
i would like some wolves around to eat the extra deer. the other evening on the way back from a visit to some relatives i counted over 50, including some very close to the road but at least they were just looking. the number of deer/car collisions is pretty high here and we've certainly played our part and kept the body shop well occupied.
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Post by steev on Jun 9, 2020 19:34:22 GMT -5
Interesting question: are vegetarians more attractive to predators than carnophages (I would think there are differences of scent)? I think the predators tend to think we meat-eaters are union members, so likely to stand and fight, rather than trying to escape; 'most everybody likes the path of least resistance and danger.
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Post by prairiegardens on Jun 11, 2020 15:57:42 GMT -5
I was bemused to learn that mice will happilly nibble on the body of a dead comrade. It seems perhaps more things are omnivorous than I at least, ever dreamed.
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Post by steev on Jun 15, 2020 19:00:41 GMT -5
Some critter ate 90% of the tomatoes I set out last week.
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Post by xdrix on Jun 16, 2020 2:14:28 GMT -5
The plants of tomato are totalky eating? If he stays a pieces of the plants you can try to bouturing them. The tomato make a roots very easily.
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Post by steev on Jun 16, 2020 11:03:23 GMT -5
Right; it left one untouched and two semi-stripped, all others gone.
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Post by prairiegardens on Jun 16, 2020 21:56:10 GMT -5
How disappointing and frustrating for you, anyone around you can maybe get cuttings from? Or would that even work?
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Post by xdrix on Jun 17, 2020 2:46:18 GMT -5
As long as the piece of plant has a leaf she could make a root, grow and ramifing even if she has not head
The root appeard most easily at the injury. The plants is cut is in trunck or ripped of? I have already see a few,plant of tomato cut at his trunck without leaf make a ramification.Unfortunately its very long and theyr don't could all them make.
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Post by flowerbug on Jun 17, 2020 6:18:11 GMT -5
we have to fence here, just too many creatures otherwise getting into the main vegetable gardens. sorry to hear you got hit there steev.
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Post by reed on Jun 17, 2020 7:58:40 GMT -5
I have lots of fences, including electric fences, critters still a problem and they are worse this year than I've ever seen. My tally so far - 5 rabbits shot on sight, 4 squirrels trapped and released far away, 3 chipmunks trapped and released far away, 3 coons trapped and shot, 1 deer shot, 2 possums trapped and immediately released, possums eat ticks and as far as I can tell not vegetables.
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