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sweettea
True Blue Farmgirl
55 Posts
Candace
St Cloud
MN
USA
55 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 01 2012 : 08:56:01 AM
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I thought my sisters might get a kick out of my garden experiences. Just like most of you, my husband and I live off most of what we grow in our garden. We supplement with a few things from the store but our garden is what puts food on the table, not the store. We live in town and our garden is 12 feet wide by the full length of out lot. We have an 18 inch tall fence around the garden with a border around it that we sunk into the ground. I mingle vegetable plants with flowers in my flower gardens around the yard also. This summer with the drought we have had an especially hard time with critters eating our garden produce. We have seen chipmunks and squirrels enjoying our produce and I spied a woodchuck yesterday just coming from our garden. They have wiped out most of my garden. My tomatoes have almost no tomatoes left on them. They also cleaned out my chard, mustard greens, spinach, cabbage, zuchini, my pumpkin vine, my buttercup squash vine, and the tops of my parsnips. This clearly had become a matter of the survival of the fittest. I declared war on the cute little critters and decided we weren't going to loose our garden completely to our four footed predators! Pondering on our options we thought of capturing the woodchuck in a cage and either drowning it in a garbage can or transporting it to a wildlife refuge about 15 miles from our house. We bought the cage yesterday and baited it with cantaloupe that webpage online said they loved. Then we went to bed, anxious to see if the trap worked to capture the woodchuck. This morning I peeked out my sunroom windows to see if the trapped worked. Yep! It worked...well sorta. We caught a skunk instead of the woodchuck! If we lived in the country we would shoot the critter. Since we live in the city, our disposal of our trapped skunk is a bit more interesting. The tale is unfolding as I'm telling you this. I will fill in the rest of the details after we are all done with this little adventure.
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
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