That was funny, Iowa_jade, thanks. I checked the Waddle fences link: they look more fortified than the fences erected by Germans during Normandy invasion. Very impressive! Whatever you do, NEVER feed bunnies rancid sunflower seeds. I threw those on our patio. A few days later, there's bunnies' feces everywhere. They diarrhea-ed on the patio. Bunnies clean up their poop by eating them, except for sunflower seeds. I have to put up with the ghastly potty site until they dry up enough to sweep away. Seil will try Irish Spring Soap - I'll try one or two bars only, lest my backyard looks like a bubble bath in the wet spring. The old fashion baby-powder with talc is cheaper than perfume, so I'll sprinkle smelly baby-powder around roses. I'll try more than one methods (raw eggs & garlic, curry powder, hair spray, garlic chives) and will report the results.

My asparagus is mostly dead, both the seeded and the roots. I suspect there was too much competition from the raspberries, but I have no explanation for the seeded plants since there wasn't anything nearby. I've been fortunate to be able to grow almost anything in our soil, but have never been able to keep asparagus roots alive in my 25 years working in this garden. When I first tried about 20 years ago, I dug up the mostly dead roots and did find that a number of worms were eating on them. So back then, before I switched to organic gardening, I used Seven, and that seemed to give them another year or two, but they eventually succumbed. Does anyone have any ideas?

I have been lurking for a couple of months, but I have to post on this one. I went to the store about a month ago to get one bag of blood meal. I came home with 9 pink fountain guara grass, 2 russian sage, 2 corkscrew grass, and 9 silver falls (to go with the corkscrew grass in a nice tall skinny container i already have). They had some plants 50% off, so I also got a just budding Strawflower, a youngish lobelia basket, and (happy dance) a smallish variegated Weigela. I got about halfway home and realized I had forgotten the Blood Meal. So I stopped at the very nice little garden center at the hy-vee (grocery store) near my house - the garden center is actually done by one of the local greenhouse/nursery centers. They were having a 25% off everything sale and bulbs for a $1.00 (instead of $4.00!), so I got a couple of hanging baskets of yellow and orange callibrachoa (million bells), 4 tiger lillies, 6 stargazer lillies, and 12 assorted - red, white, yellow. I again got halfway home and had to turn around. You guessed it, forgot to get the blood meal!!

This is hilarious. According to this Urban Dictionary definition, I am poor. I shop at Wal Mart (ALL the time, and occasionally go to Goodwill) and I do not have a Versace anything. I do know how to pronounce it now though. Seriously, I hope I am never defined by what I wear, at the least, although I certainly enjoy nice things! poor 20 up, 77 down Low-class, underpriveleged people. You will find many poor people if you go to places such as Wal-Mart, as poor people seek discounted prices as they do not have much money. Poor people will wear brands such as Faded Glory, Wrangler, and other commonly available brands, and most likely will have no knowledge of brands such as Burberry, Armani, Gucci, Versace, and other nicer brands. They will often drive used cars, typically cheaper domestic cars or inferior foreign brands such as Hyundai, typically more than five years old. Severely poor people will have cars that are ten years or older and they might purchase second-hand clothes from stores such as Goodwill. Poor people will have inferior jobs and probably make less than $50,000 a year. The definition of poor varies by region. The poorest of people will live in trailers. With no means to live lavishly, poor people will often lead a simple lifestyle. Poor kids are often unpopular at school as they can not fit in with popular children. Sometimes also used by some people as a noun to refer to people they do not like. Their clothes are not brand name, they must be poor. Look at the poor people shopping at Wal-Mart!