Posted on 07/21/2018 2:00:13 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Sorry about your tomatoes. I’m sure the squirrels loved them!
Ditto the corn and raccoons. The year the raccoons ate my flour corn hubby saw the ‘fattest raccoon I’ve ever seen’.
I have a question for anyone that might know:
What’s a good recipe for insecticidal soap. I have both fels naphtha and castile soap.
What’s a ‘Squirrelinator’
And I’d love the recipe for jalapeno cowboy candy!
Lots of zucchini (of course) and other summer squash. Wish I knew some good ways to use it all, other than the tried-and-true ring-the-doorbell-and-run method.
Roma tomatoes are producing well, some beefsteak. Bush Goliath do very well here in Arizona.
Too many peppers. We’re growing jalapenos, serranos, anchos, bell peppers, and spicy bells (a bell pepper/jalapeno hybrid). I hope the people at work want peppers.
Plenty of eggplant. My wife made a killer eggplant parmesan the other day, but she can’t eat much fried stuff. More for me.
A few melons on, if the skunks will let them ripen.
Good eating to all!
We use layered chicken wire. Lay the second layer offset of the first. We ‘redo’ our raised beds every 4 or 5 years (deconstruct, new soil, etc) so we just replace it then.
YMMV of course. If you hear of a better idea I’d love to hear of it, what we do is kind of a pain.
My tomatoes are the BEST. CROP. EVER.
I cannot believe how big and loaded the plants are.
They are not ripe yet, but I am hoping that the critters don’t get to them first.
We have squirrels and a woodchuck. The woodchuck got most of my peas and lettuce.
This is war.
But we also have cats that roam through the yard and I am trying to encourage them to stay. Bought my first bag of cat food ever.
Any other suggestions on how to get rid of those rodents?
You all are such gardenees. It is so hot here, the plants are chasing the squirrels and rabbits. We cannot water enough, however the okra are going bonkers. Maybe the fall and winter crops will do better. I’m thinking of moving my two tomato plants into the garage where I’ll set up a fan to try and cool them off a bit. They have buds but so far NO fruit. OH well.
A good year for you! We have wild elderberries and they are beautiful. The critters get all the berries though. LOL
Possibly. Never been able to decide for sure.
OH YUM
Sounds delicious.
Works well with out tomatoes. Especially if they are just turning a little pink but the rest still green. Ripen and taste terrific.
I got a deck for the side patio to store cushions. Was happy when it was dry after the deluge. It will work fine for that BBQ area.
Oh you just triggered a memory. We had planted some corn in front of the Llama shed. The ground was so fertile the corn growing so well. A raccoon decided the corn was ripe so took some We set out a live trap and of course he finally got stuck in it. When hubby and a friend checked on him, he was eating a corn cob. As they lifted the trap, with him in it, he reached out and nonchalantly picked another cob for his journey.
Hubby did get a few tomatoes from the farmer’s market that we ate while waiting on ours to mature.
I made up a bunch of dehydrated tomatoes last year-I like them as a salty snack. Still have a few left.
In Oregon, I had easy access to wild ones, but here I had to plant; totally no-native here. I love elderberry cobbler; and have made a very fine wine a couple of times: tastes like a good Port.
A historical note, Portugal, to protect their product from adulteration, once forcibly eradicated and banned elderberry bushes from the entire country.
What do you do with an overabundance of squash?
I have used both those to make laundry detergent, but never insecticidal stuff.
Zucchini Spears make better pickles than cukes!!! They are my grand kids favorites.
Still haven’t figured out what to do with summer squash.
Pickled peppers and onions are good too - I like to add them to a garden salad.
Congrats on Tomatoes. Hubby plans to use an air rifle on the bushy tails.
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