All I can say is WOW! What a fantastic Spring Garden Day this year. We ended up having over 500 people come through the gardens on Saturday. Our friend Rusty (the master griller) called me the “jackrabbit” because I just kept running back and forth through the gardens answering questions and digging plants for people. Marty and I didn’t [...]
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Lately we have been having a rash of jackrabbits (5 -7 at a time) and deer going through our gardens. In fact at least one rabbit is so brave as to try and build a burrow in my main demonstration garden. When you get close he just looks at you and only moves a couple of feet away. Since we don’t have a dig to chase them off, I have started letting my kids run after them. Now it actually pretty funny to watch two 6 year olds running after jackrabbits throughout the yard. Now since I can’t always depend on my kids to be around when the rabbits come into the yard, we are going to try some other measures to keep them out. A friend of mine who runs a good sized farm with lots of vegetables told us that they use fish emulsion 4 – 5 times to deter both the deer and [...] identifying the snake I heard and then saw this morning while I was weeding! Yes as I was bent over in one of my daylily fields this morning getting rid of some weeds, I heard a rattle. I looked over and sure enough there was a rattlesnake curled up under one of the [...] Deer seem to have taken a vacation from my yard, so for now the daylilies are safe . . They have been allowed to grow and to have scapes and I’ve had some blooms. I don’t know if rains have greened up the deer’s regular grazing areas or if the Bobbex helped to keep them away. But whatever the reason, I am grateful to see some scapes and [...] Texas Rat Snake [...] Yesterday on our way out the door, our kids found this snake in one of our small crepe myrtle trees next to the house. We have [...] saw a swarm of fire ants stinging away. I immediately brushed them off, stripped off my [...] I read on the Daylily Robin that some gardeners recommended Milorganite as a deer deterrent. (I’ve live in my present home for about 12 years and never had a problem with deer until this winter. I hate to put up a fence if the deer leave once we get over our present [...] |
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