Archive for the 'Pests' Category

Of Seeds And Mice

Swiss Chard and Cardoon. Cardoon!!!
Since those two are not interested in mice hunting in the greenhouse (only the great outdoors)…

… we had to resort to those:

…baited with organic peanut butter - no less.
Round 2: minus 2 mice.
Ungerminated flats also moved to the house until germination and all re-seeded as necessary. I suppose that’s why I [...]

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Of Mice And Seeds

ARGGGH!!!
Swiss Chard. Round 1: Mice.

AARRGGH!!!!
E-VE-RY-SIN-GLE-ONES!!!!
Lucullus, Perpetual, Poiree a Carde Blanche de Lyon, Fordhook, Carde Blanche! AARRRRGGH!!!

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Of Beans Growing

Gardening keeps you humble.
Here you are: pretty proud of yourself, because you’ve been gardening for over twenty years – you’ve even had some pretty good years and raised some unusual plants; you’ve dabbled in all kinds of things; have propagated a lot of your own plants and saved seeds; you are even teaching people how [...]

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