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Gardening Blog (Archive): September 2003
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Monday, September 22, 2003
Oooooohhhhh...can I come to your house? :)
We didn't grow anything much of anything this year. I'm still figuring out what to do about the pocket gophers. What I've heard is that you can trap them, but it's incredibly labor-intensive. You have to dig into their main tunnels and set traps facing either way. We have empty fields around our house...that's where they come from. So there is this endless deluge of pocket gophers...I got burned out, trying everything last year.
We do have a new plum tree though. (Knock wood.) They killed my fig tree but they haven't touched the plum. We also have a lemon tree and an orange tree but they're still in pots.
Do you know if any particular snake kills gophers? I read on the Net there is this Minnesota King Snake but it's enormous. I can't have that around the kids, even if I could get hold of one.
pfffff I'll have to put out more gum, I think.
--J.
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at 12:12 PM (Pacific)
Sunday, September 21, 2003
We mowed the garden down yesterday afternoon. Heres a recap of what we got out of it this season:
5-6 meals worth of broccoli
25 pounds of green beans
100+ pounds of tomatoes
20 pounds of cucumbers
and
One 11 pound zucchini. Yes, we grew an 11 pound zucchini. We let one grow just to see how big it could get. This thing was ENORMOUS. It was almost obscene looking. We picked and weighed it yesterday. We're thinking of taking it along to the new house and turning it into a 2nd garage! LOL
I have no idea how much a similar amount of organic produce would have cost us to buy retail. A lot, I'm sure. I saw organic broccoli at our co-op for something like $3.49 a head. We got an easy 6 heads worth, how much is that? $20.94. That about what all the plants and seeds cost us.
It was a good year and a good garden. It looks kinda sad and bare out there now, mowed down flat. We've got a nice garden spot at the new house and an apple tree, red raspberry patch and rhubarb. Oldest boy wants to put in a strawberry patch this spring and I want a peach tree.
carol m.
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at 6:26 PM (Pacific)
Monday, September 15, 2003
My son found a dead pocket gopher. The gum, finally kicking in????? It could be a cat though too. More likely the cat...there's a black one that's been hanging around. More power to him; I hate those dang creatures.
Haven't been doing much with the garden this year. Well there have been so many other things to do. It's an expensive proposition but it would be nice to put in more roses. (knock wood) The gophers don't seem to like them.
I saw a "gopher repellent" on one of our Google ads. The main ingredients were castor oil and paprika. Wondering if that works. You mix it with water and spray it over the ground. I know the noise-makers don't work, at all. We tried that...it's this thing you stick in the ground that makes noise. It'll irritate the life out of you, but gophers...they come right up to it and dig.
--J.
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at 3:05 PM (Pacific)
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