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Re: Favorite deer repellents?
There is a product called Shake Away that we use in our landscaping business. It's just dehydrated predator urine. You have to replenish it about every month, but it seems to work, no one's been calling to get their plants replaced!
Re: How to buy organics while on a budget
Interesting article in NY Times July 22, 2008 on eating locally grown food
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/dining/22local.html?ref=health
excerpt
"Eating locally raised food is a growing trend. But who has time to get to the farmer?s market, let alone plant a garden?
That is where Trevor Paque comes in. For a fee, Mr. Paque, who lives in San Francisco, will build an organic garden in your backyard, weed it weekly and even harvest the bounty, gently placing a box of vegetables on the back porch when he leaves."
Re: How to buy organics while on a budget
and...if theres produce left near closing time the farmers are usually willing to make a deal~
Re: How to buy organics while on a budget
have you checked the local harvest website? http://www.localharvest.org/store/
"The best organic food is what's grown closest to you. Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodie"
Re: Favorite deer repellents?
We really like the Scarecrow. It's an impact sprinkler with a motion detector on it. Works like a charm on all animals. Just make sure if you're working in the yard to turn it off. I've been shot in the face a few times. While it doesn't hurt (just water) it does startle you.
http://www.critterridders.com/scarecrow.htm
squash zucchini question
i've noticed that most of my yellow squash and zucchini plants have suddenly taken to being dead. They were green and lush a week ago, do they not like being on black plastic? maybe deer stomping on them?
Re: Favorite deer repellents?
someone recommended to me about using Irish spring soap, i think the fresh river scent or something like that. And i didn't notice any deer visitings in the garden the soap did have various racoon clawmarks on it.
Re: How to buy organics while on a budget
It's all about shares in a CSA, kind of corporate, but oh well. 10 dollars would be half a share, I guess, but usually most want you to commit to a full season, before the season, preferably. :)
Mark.
Re: Favorite deer repellents?
Christa - Martin's idea of sending omnivorous friends out to pee on your yard would make a big impact on the snooty neighbors. LOL - Especially if they do it on the electric fence!
Re: How to buy organics while on a budget
the CSA we use in portland works out to be about $20 a week in fresh organic produce. its usually more than you can eat so sharing it with a friend would be an option bringing it to $10/week!
Re: Favorite deer repellents?
the orchards around here tie up pieces of strongly scented soap in pantyhose & tie this to the trees. i tried it & it works~
about the hair, how often do you replenish it?
Re: Favorite deer repellents?
This cinflex fence is the best solution i've found. It looks nice, blending in with low visibility and is very easy to install. Works great.
http://cgi.ebay.com/PLASTIC-DEER-WILDLIFE-FENCE-7-5-X-330_W0QQitemZ7619685095QQihZ019QQcategoryZ1269QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262
The shipping is high; one third of the cost when i got it first, but i asked a local organic grower supply company to carry it and they got it and it has proved a very popular item and is considerably cheaper that way.
Re: How to shade when no shade?
I actually used a set of tiki poles that I'd found in the office dumpster one day, set them up around the paramater of the veggie bed, and used binder clips to attach (in this case plastic for a green house effect in the fall) the material to the poles. Worked quite well, was my first official greenhouse...
Re: Favorite deer repellents?
Thanks to hanging little bundles of human hair in each tree
our neighbor has 3 beautiful Japanese Maples growing where
deer used to mow them down.
Yea!
Re: How to buy organics while on a budget
CSAs are an option. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Farmers Markets are also an option. And, as always, there's always the "grow your own" option. :)
Lord Buddha :)
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Jane Perrone's organic allotment and garden blog
Why aren't my tomatoes growing?
The posts on my garden aren't coming thick and fast at the moment, as you've probably noticed. With a move to a new house and garden in the offing (so far so good) I am mentally detaching myself from my little plot, knowing that it will no longer be mine to tend in a few weeks. I'll mow the lawn and keep it tidy until then, but expansive new schemes, no. As a result I am feeling a little like Mrs Be over at Carrots and Kids - wondering where all the luscious veg of previous years have gone. Of...
It's the Weekend all week long
A couple of people have asked how the now not-so-new job is going. The answer is, in short, great. Particularly now that stuff I thought up or said yes to, commissioned and saw through the editing and design process are being published. This week's feature is one of my favourites so far. It sprang from this blogpost where I bemoaned my ability to kill even toughies like lamb's ears. Regular contributor (and darn fine writer) Lia Leendertz asked some of the gardening world's great and the good what plants they've dispatched lately, and the results were revealing: a very diplomatic...
The butterflies are snubbing me
Maybe I am taking this rather too personally but my buddleia - way too big and ungainly for my small garden but usually great for the wildlife - doesn't seem to have hosted a single butterfly yet. Is this just me or has anyone else noticed a dearth of butterflies this summer?Update: I spoke to Butterfly Conservation today and anecdotally at least I am not alone - butterfly numbers appear to be down this year, although that's yet to be confirmed by the charity whose band of butterfly spotters are still at work. It's suspected to be down to last...
I am now an ex-allotmenteer
My last day on the allotment was yesterday. I didn't feel as sad as I expected, partly because during my last visit I spent most of the time being attacked by ants who weren't very happy that I was dismantling their home, the sides of the plastic Link-a-Bord* raised bed system. In the pouring rain. Although I am sure the birds had a field day picking up all the ant eggs once I'd gone. The rain stopped, and I picked a lot of soft fruit and cleared lots of junk out of the storage box. The other reason I had...
Hand in glove: luxe garden wear for the confident woman
Anyone who has seen me at work in the garden will know that fashion and my workwear are not happy bedfellows. I tend to go for the "dragged through a hedge backwards" look, and seem to get far messier and muddier than anyone else I know when digging. So Ethel's 'Expression' gardening gloves made me laugh. Apparently they are for "the woman who wears red stilettos to a black tie event and a polka-dot dress to a business luncheon. You believe in your own abilities. You make a statement when you walk into a room. You are confident, and you...
Digging for dinner
There's an interesting piece in the Guardian today about how London's royal parks are considering setting up model allotments to show people how they can grow their own fruit and veg. Of course my mentioning of the article has nothing to do with the fact that I wrote a sidebar for it on the decorative value of veg.
Can't get enough of you
List, to be continued, of the stuff I just can't get enough of ... 1. Crocks No, not your folks, the bits of broken pot you chuck in the bottom of containers to aid drainage. I find it a nice way of holding onto favourite pieces of china that I manage to smash now and again (why is it always the good stuff that breaks?) 2. Buckets I currently have at least four buckets kicking around (fnar ...) Two are full of stinking comfrey tea. One is empty and the other one has pea netting in it. 3. Compost sacks...
Death becomes you
Now, I know sometimes people say us gardeners are old before our time, but this is ridiculous.
Blackbird v Slug: no contest, really
This was the welcome sight outside my kitchen window today: a blackbird giving a slug a good pasting. The bird was holding the slug in its beak and moving its head from side to side, smashing its prize into the stone, presumably to tenderise it before eating. I've seen thrushes use a stone as an anvil on slugs, but not this. It's a perfect illustration of why introducing birds into the garden is a must for the organic gardener. The mealworms I've been putting out have been doing the trick of getting more birds in, which is useful from an...
Ageing pots with yoghurt
I am not one to try out many tips and tricks loved by Chelsea exhibitors - I don't really have time for putting bulbs in the fridge etc - but a brand new terracotta pot that's badly clashing with my more weathered containers has forced me to try the old natural yoghurt ageing trick (organic Yeo Valley yoghurt, of course). At present the pot looks like my daughter's highchair after a particularly messy breakfast, but within weeks the yoghurt should have encouraged mosses and lichens to grow apace, banishing the current shade of orange which is the plant pot equivalent...
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