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Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Are you sure that it is just the bunnies' fault? Peppers in general need a lot of heat. I can grow jalipenos in my SF East Bay garden, but some years are better than others and it really seems to come down to heat. |
Mumps [MM] Send message Joined: 11 Feb 08 Posts: 4454 Credit: 100,893,853 RAC: 30 |
Are you sure that it is just the bunnies' fault? Peppers in general need a lot of heat. I can grow jalipenos in my SF East Bay garden, but some years are better than others and it really seems to come down to heat. Guaranteed bunnies. All little nibble marks and the bunnies out-number everything else in the neighborhood. I really need to take my friend up on his offer of the live-trap. Seems he belongs to a gun club that has a bunny hunt every spring, so the members catch local bunnies and release them on the gun-clubs grounds for each spring. There's nary a night I pull into the drive after dark where we count less than 4 bunnies in the headlights. All different sizes as well, so they aren't even the same 4 bunnies each time. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
I tried planting some jalepenos this year, but the rabbits won't leave the plants alone. I ended up with just a pair a scraggly plants with no leaves. :-( If they are eating the peppers, it could make for some good tasting rabbit. My wife has relatives who raise mint (amongst other things) commercially. They often will let one or two domestic geese graze in the mint for a week or two before Thanksgiving or Christmas, and then cook the pre-spiced bird. Tastes great. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30648 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
I tried planting some jalepenos this year, but the rabbits won't leave the plants alone. I ended up with just a pair a scraggly plants with no leaves. :-( Couldn't happen in the USA due to food safety laws. Salmonella mint leaves ... farm quarantined. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
I tried planting some jalepenos this year, but the rabbits won't leave the plants alone. I ended up with just a pair a scraggly plants with no leaves. :-( Actually, it is in the US. But I'm not saying where. And as far as I know the pre-spiced birds are not sold. Just for home consumption. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30648 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
I tried planting some jalepenos this year, but the rabbits won't leave the plants alone. I ended up with just a pair a scraggly plants with no leaves. :-( It isn't the birds that is the problem, it is the chance their poop contaminated the mint, it would all have to be plowed under. |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
Racoons in the White House. Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Pellinore Send message Joined: 15 Aug 07 Posts: 104 Credit: 94,949 RAC: 0 |
Angela, We live in Baker City Oregon. My father-in-law was trying to start some new trees and had a problem with the deer eating them. I was traveling a lot then and collected Hotel soaps for him. He hung a few of them in each tree and it seem to keep the deer away. Have fun Pellinore |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
Wow, not even deer want to clean themselves with hotel soap! Go figure. :p |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Are you sure that it is just the bunnies' fault? Peppers in general need a lot of heat. I can grow jalipenos in my SF East Bay garden, but some years are better than others and it really seems to come down to heat. We had bunnies until a hawk discovered that we had bunnies. Now we occasionally have a hawk, and we have many fewer bunnies in evidence. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Angela has her critters, It is definitely a mule deer. BOINC WIKI |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
I've tried to landscape my front yard with plants deer allegedly do not like. Problem is, the deer didn't read the same gardening book I read... My mother discovered that ravens like moth balls. Supposedly, deer don't like the smell, however, ravens like the shiny things... BOINC WIKI |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
I have the greatest respect for ravens. There was a Scientific American article on Raven Intelligence several months ago that was awesome, yet also depressing. It seems these darn birds are quite a bit smarter than many of the children I serve... |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65745 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I've tried to landscape my front yard with plants deer allegedly do not like. Problem is, the deer didn't read the same gardening book I read... Shiny bubbles, er baubles. ;) The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65745 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I have the greatest respect for ravens. There was a Scientific American article on Raven Intelligence several months ago that was awesome, yet also depressing. It seems these darn birds are quite a bit smarter than many of the children I serve... And now You know why Birds/Dinosaurs dominated this planet for over 140 million years, Among other reasons at least. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
Do remember a dog of mine anno dazumal... I didn't expect that phrase to be used in Finland! ("Dazumal" is definitely German :-) |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
I have the greatest respect for ravens. There was a Scientific American article on Raven Intelligence several months ago that was awesome, yet also depressing. It seems these darn birds are quite a bit smarter than many of the children I serve... The local ravens enjoyed teasing the dog. There would be a group of ravens spread out through several trees. One would dive at the dog and then glide just out of reach as the dog gave chase. Just before it reached its target tree another raven would take off and do the same thing. This lasted until the dog was exhausted. BOINC WIKI |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
Many years ago my wife had an office overlooking an inflated tennis bubble on Vancouver Island. When the bubble was wet from a recent rain or heavy dew, the ravens would land on top, then take turns sliding down the wet plastic standing up, with their wings outstretched. They could usually get to an almost vertical slope before flying away. Maybe I'm anthropomorphizing here, but it looked like a game of dare to me. |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Ugh! A skunk sprayed in our backyard last night. I suspect the cause of the spraying was a raccoon baby (or babies). Skunks only spray as a matter of last resort, but baby raccoons sometimes get skunks to that point pretty quickly. I did not witness the incident, but my guess it that when Mask and Wednesday return tonight with their Mama, they will both be somewhat fragrant. Our backyard is only vaguely skunky today, which is why I suspect the primary target was something moving, like a baby raccoon. Oh well, such is the price we pay for regular backyard evening entertainment... |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65745 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Ugh! A skunk sprayed in our backyard last night. I suspect the cause of the spraying was a raccoon baby (or babies). Skunks only spray as a matter of last resort, but baby raccoons sometimes get skunks to that point pretty quickly. Ah yes, Skunk warfare, Witnessed after the fact by impartial personnel and out of sight of the belligerents. ;) The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
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