Your best method on keeping rabbits out of your garden
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What's your best tips for keeping flower pots from being stolen?
Comments (31)drive threaded steel posts into the ground where you want your pots. The stuff looks kind of like rebar, and you can get it at most home improvement stores. Drive the posts in deep enough where its definitely difficult to pull them up again. If you are really worried about it, dig a big hole, attach a bolt-and-huge washer system at the bottom of the steel bar, then backfill the hole after you set the bar into the hole with maybe 6" of the bar above ground level. Use the biggest washers (stack them in increasing sizes if you have to) you can get your mitts on. Stomp the soil down really well, or use cement to fill the hole if you are even more worried. Then, at soil level, use a large washer just below the pot, thread the pot on to the steel bar through the center drainage holes (drill other drainage holes to make up for it), add another series of washers until you get to a really big one, bolt the washers into place, fill the pot with soil and then plant your plants. People can then TRY to make off with your pots, but it will take several REALLY strong people or a truck with some kind of tow system to dislodge the pot--and you should notice that kind of noise. ljrmiller(z7 NV) I have been considering a system similar to what ljrmiller previously posted for the past couple of weeks. I have a beautiful vitex that I grew from a cutting that I want to put in front of my A/C unit at my apartment. I am going to place a corkscrew anchor, like bad pet owners have to keep their dogs from running loose through the trailer park, through the center drain hole of the pot. Then take galvanized bailing wire, tie it to the eyelet on the corkscrew and wrap the wire tightly across the top of the root ball to anchor the plant thoroughly to the ground. As to not damage the plants roots I am going to place burlap across the surface of the rootball. Finally I will add a thorough layer of mulch to not only aid in weed control but to hide the wires that secure the plant to the ground as well. I might be doing this a s soon as this coming weekend. I'll post photos of the finished product....See MoreOrganic Gardening Tips: How to Keep Your Flowers Healthy All Year
Comments (2)Excellent message on the benefits of worms. I take this idea to the logical conclusion and, instead of creating a worm bin, buying worms, feeding them regularly, harvesting castings, and distributing castings, I create worm environments outside on the ground, which I plant directly into. I use the "lasagna bed" building method, whereby I first layer with newspaper to keep weeds out, then add several layers of worm food and plant into soil pockets. Potatoes can be "planted" by laying them directly on the newpaper and covering with the layers of worm food. For worm food I layer leaves (they do not need to be shredded), compost, coffee grounds (I get a ton for free from Starbucks), twigs, and anything that could be composted until I have a good pile or run out of ingredients. This year I planted potatoes under one of my lasagna beds and by harvest time all of the ingredients were gone; entirely eaten by the worms in the soil. I ended up with 6 inches of worm castings, this bed is looking pretty awesome for next year. Cheers!...See MoreAny new remedies for keeping rabbits out of the garden?
Comments (85)Rabbits and deer will eat almost anything if they are desperate. Onions and garlic don't deter our wildlife, nor do most of the supposedly rabbit and deer proof plants. We've had rabbits graze garlic chives down to the roots. We live on a acre of cactus, yucca, thistles and all kinds of thorny brambles. We also have hawks, owls and bobcats strolling through regularly. We have deer sleeping in front of the house, rabbits hopping from one plant to another, though all the spiky, thorny brush. So don't believe the stories that predators or spiky leaves or smelly plants will protect your garden from wildlife. Commercial repellants are all based on bloodmeal or sulphurous eggs, and they are reputed to work, at least for a time. I make my own repellant - recipe is given earlier in this thread. I find this works but must be reapplied about once a month. I also use chicken wire cages around small plants. All of this is necessary when the animals have to eat or starve to death. Cheryl...See MoreKeeping the garden watered...what are your favorite solutions?
Comments (33)I didn't think it would be a good idea, like you said, to run it under or over the sidewalk, bad enough to run a hose across it for the soaker hose my neighbor loaned me last year and this. But it's so long, it has 3 turns and having to lift it in and out to hoe (I will mulch when I get to it), is almost more than I can bear. It's heavy and drags across plants to move so last year I never weeded except a few by hand, but with tomatoes in cages, it wasn't too bad. The soaker worked great for tomatoes in neat rows but is not going to work well for tiny plants and roses scattered more randomly. My roses are one long row but the companion plants are scattered. Do you know what I really wish? I wish I had an old-fashioned pump and a cistern to collect all this water. That is not feasible but it would sure bring back memories, and I would love doing it. My grandmother couldn't have watered much of anything except her African violets inside, and things grew ok for her. She didn't mulch either, just probably did a little hoeing and had boards to walk on to get down the rows of what she had planted. She had a long perennial bed with shrubs and spring bulbs but no roses that I can remember. If I get fed up enough this summer and depending on my health, I can have a guy come and install a faucet on the other side of the back sidewalk (front is a 'nuther animal but could have another one in the basement going through another outside wall on the other side of the sidewalk). Then I could irrigate all of it. I will remember Drip Works, usually think long and hard before making such a change especially in light of expensive repairs I need done, can afford some of it but not all at once and hard to prioritize. Irrigation would not be that expensive if I do it myself but takes thinking, planning and time. I really really want my arbor put back up, right this time, heard a jackhammer going at the neighbor's, was hoping they could come here when done and blast out four concrete footings so we can start over. No such luck. Of course I would have paid a reasonable amount. It was a fence company and I saw they had augurs of different sizes in the truck. That would be so nice, that arbor was a dream come true, and it's all come to nothing for now, my son and the neighbor down the street think vandals knocked it over but it wasn't installed right, I knew it, and was frantically trying to find out how I could anchor it better, didn't make it in time, actually paid another guy to try to screw it in the footings using a masonry drill. That failed, too. My son is good at things but so busy. It is thundering and raining again . . .so far just a shower. The beds that aren't mulched yet dried out already after that record downpour, probably damp deeper down. I will mulch but want all my seedlings in and big enough so I can see where to put it all without ruining some plus I want to hoe first. I can neaten up the edges later....See Moresunnibel7 Md 7
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