Thanks so much for your great replies and ideas! ÂDenn, rat traps, in my experience, are difficult to handle, but I'm glad you have good experience with them. Watch your finger, though! We tried them, but caught nothing. Also they had to be snapped before dusk, so an unlucky coon wouldn't get a foot snapped. (We have lately been very sucessful w/live traps, though) ÂSandy, a feline would be very nice, but how do you solve the toilet problem? Does she use a litter box in the shed? Or does she go in the woods? What I didn't know, but learned this afternoon, is that weasels (not ferrets!) are indiginous to my area. That's great news! for it would be ideal if the chipmunk population could be controlled by natural means by getting indigenous weasels established. The area has acres and acres of uncultivated land, stone fences, woods, & wetlands, plus lots of food (chipmunks, woodchucks, racoons). If weasels don't settle here on their own, I hope to find a source, or locate an organization that would settle some weasels in the woods around here. Here is a link that might be useful: Weasel indigenous to New England (?)

amy, Scope out municipal parks, church landscape plantings, state parks & wildlife management areas, etc. I can't comment on ripening periods in the PNW, but here: Serviceberries are ripe in May/June - there's a nice A.laevis tree at the public library, and my kids & I planted several A.x grandiflora bushes at their elementary school about 10 years ago that are now mature enough to produce nice crops - if we can beat the birds to 'em. C.mas(corneliancherry dogwood) - several nice fruiting-age plants in a city park here; it's me vs. the birds in August, when the fruits ripen. C.kousa is a prominent feature at several of the churches around town, and at the satellite campus of the regional state university here, and nobody but me, the birds, and squirrels do anything with the fruits; usually ripe in Sept/Oct. Pawpaws are everywhere along creeks here - usually ripe just at the end of September. Persimmon season here runs from mid-September to December,or until they're gone, depending upon the tree. I'm currently gathering shagbark & shellbark hickory nuts, pecans, hicans, black walnuts, and bur oak acorns from my nutgrove and various spots around the community.

I haven't seen rain come down like that since I lived in Tornado ally! WOW! 1 inch of rain in 15 minutes ? Crazy! my Elderberry's got the worst of it, Gooseberry's lost a few branches and only lost one branch on Blueberries and Mulberries... could have been far worse, though.

So your seeds are not pure anything if they give plants with yellow fruits and plants with red fruits? (wink) And when referring to the Sarasota type you are talking about the Everglades one,which is a currant,and even more interesting,at least to me and others is that a person in S Florida thought his daugther had bought a plant of the Everglades one (red) and it turned out to have PINK fruits, a nice epidermis mutation. Ted sent me the fruits,I saved the seed and it really is quite unique as well as tasting great http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Ted%27s_Pink_Currant#tab=General_Info Tania goofed in sayin red but good to know that she is selling seeds for it for 2016. Hope that helps, Carolyn Right now I'm not sure how I can alter my above post with your new information, but I'll try.Now say not from the Galapagos,but from the Andes and yes, Solanum pimpinellifolium, the currant (red), is originally from the Andes either Ecudor or Peru and seeds for it are sold at lots of places. And yes,I was the one who introduced Sara's Galapagos and Amy named it and yes,it is a stable interspecies hybrid as Dr. Chatelet told me and he's at theTGRC in Davis, CA, and I loveSara's Galapagos just as much as I loveTed's pink one,