What Did You Do In The Garden?

[seedcorn]

Be glad it was corn and not your pet rooster

Awful to admit, been waiting for him to die.....his hen died 2 years ago.... he is like energizer bunny......

On Saturdays, old dog, old cat, old me and him have been known to sit by back porch all together. All old males....

 

[flowerbug]

Not sure whether coons, skunks or ground hogs. So upset, I didn’t look tonight.

most likely raccoons. the reason why we don't grow sweet corn here. there's just too many of them and no electric fence in here yet...

 

[flowerbug]

When we lose so much of our edibles to animals, I don't know how commercial farmers do it.

Mary

they plant large areas.

i can see along the roads and the field next to us some places where the animals have been chewing.

now that the corn is tall more people will be hitting deer with their cars. the past several weeks at night you can hear people honking their horns at the deer in the road. there's no other reasons to use the horns around here, especially at that time of the night...

 

[digitS']

I had more problems with raccoons when there were more nearby acres in sweet corn.

Farmers certainly take crop protection seriously but the corn may not be available long enuf to increase coon population numbers high enough to be of real serious concern. I imagine that food along shorelines is more important for the critters. That food source and people leaving pet food out ...

Of course, there would be a difference between 40 acres of sweet corn and someone having several hundred square feet of a corn patch. A group representing 60 or 80 pounds of pests could wipe out a family size planting, in short order.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

That is the reason most terrier breeds where developed. Almost all got there start on the farm. You needed a super tough dog to take on a large raccoon/ woodchucks there like small bears. Foxes and bobcats from poultry

 

[seedcorn]

Dog breeds used to have a practical use not just because they were pretty..

 

[ducks4you]

Wanted to cry like baby. Sweet corn was about 5 days from picking. Went to shut rooster up and what did I see? Animals attacked about 2/3 of crop......can’t poison them as it will get wife’s cats....

SOOO Sorry!!!
Makes you so mad you wonder why you bothered to plant and tend it.

 

[ducks4you]

I guess even the whistles don't work. =/
http://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/a...are-deer-whistles-to-avoid-vehicle-collisions
Anyway, I had to buy replacement sweet peppers for 5 that didn't make it. The 6th is replanted in a pot and in the shade to recover, if possible. They are all now in the ground. The extreme heat for a week with humidity giving us heat indexes well over 100 degrees just baked them. Haven't mulched yet and hope to do that today.
I also bought and and planted one zucchini and one cantaloupe. Fingers crossed that the squash bugs and borers are far enough away from this bed to attack them.

 

[6884]

Big farms around here have went as far as planting winter wheat for a spring crop, once the wheat is harvested planting their soybeans in the left over 8 - 10" wheat stubble, the thinking is the young plant has a chance to mature because the deer cant reach the small plants because the hard wheat stubble sticks them In the nose, at least once it reach's the top of the stubble, it has a chance to make it.

Anybody having trouble with deer and want to go through the trouble, get you some coyote urine, tie a rag to the top of a tee post drive it in the middle of the garden, load the rag up with said urine, re-fresh once a week. worked like a charm on my place. haven't see a track since I started this.

Cant help you with coons, haven't had to deal with those varmints yet but its coming when I get the chicken coop done I'm sure.

 

[seedcorn]

Coons r easy IF you don’t have outside animals.