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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them
cut down with stumps ground 2005-6. The trees that were cut were chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the property to serve as a reservoir of mulch. The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if you heap them. You have to regularly add filler (from mulch reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely. Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and ankles. Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and acorns are buried there. So they dig, removing the filler. You cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the mulch reservoir. It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray squirrel. |
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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
Jack wrote:
Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them cut down with stumps ground 2005-6. The trees that were cut were chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the property to serve as a reservoir of mulch. The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if you heap them. You have to regularly add filler (from mulch reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely. Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and ankles. Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and acorns are buried there. So they dig, removing the filler. You cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the mulch reservoir. It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray squirrel. Evidently you don't have man's best friend a dog. If you gonna shoot them put them into the freezer. Barbecued squirrel is great. |
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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
On 6/27/2009 9:06 AM, Jack wrote:
Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them cut down with stumps ground 2005-6. The trees that were cut were chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the property to serve as a reservoir of mulch. The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if you heap them. You have to regularly add filler (from mulch reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely. Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and ankles. Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and acorns are buried there. So they dig, removing the filler. You cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the mulch reservoir. It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray squirrel. I don't kill the squirrels. I use a cage trap and then relocate them to a nearby state park that contains hungry coyotes, owls, and hawks. -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19) Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary |
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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
"Jack" wrote in message ... Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them cut down with stumps ground 2005-6. The trees that were cut were chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the property to serve as a reservoir of mulch. The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if you heap them. You have to regularly add filler (from mulch reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely. Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and ankles. Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and acorns are buried there. So they dig, removing the filler. You cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the mulch reservoir. It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray squirrel. It's very silly counting on wood mulch to fill those rotting stump holes unless you don't mind the process taking as many years as it did to grow those trees. You're making your own misery... get some soil hauled in... has nothing to do with squirrels, you old scapegoat. LOL |
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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:14:00 -0400, nada wrote:
Jack wrote: Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them cut down with stumps ground 2005-6. The trees that were cut were chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the property to serve as a reservoir of mulch. The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if you heap them. You have to regularly add filler (from mulch reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely. Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and ankles. Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and acorns are buried there. So they dig, removing the filler. You cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the mulch reservoir. It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray squirrel. Evidently you don't have man's best friend a dog. If you gonna shoot them put them into the freezer. Barbecued squirrel is great. There's so little meat on a gray squirrel; never understood why people make such a fuss over them as food. Then you gotta worry about the bird shot while chewing. Several acquaintances have fractured their teeth on pheasants that were killed by shotgun. |
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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:23:19 GMT, "brooklyn1"
wrote: "Jack" wrote in message ... Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them cut down with stumps ground 2005-6. The trees that were cut were chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the property to serve as a reservoir of mulch. The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if you heap them. You have to regularly add filler (from mulch reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely. Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and ankles. Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and acorns are buried there. So they dig, removing the filler. You cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the mulch reservoir. It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray squirrel. It's very silly counting on wood mulch to fill those rotting stump holes unless you don't mind the process taking as many years as it did to grow those trees. You're making your own misery... get some soil hauled in... has nothing to do with squirrels, you old scapegoat. LOL Quite a bit of that wood mulch has rotted down to soil. 50% or so, I'd guess. |
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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
Jim Elbrecht wrote:
(Jack) wrote: On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:14:00 -0400, nada wrote: If you gonna shoot them put them into the freezer. Barbecued squirrel is great. There's so little meat on a gray squirrel; never understood why people make such a fuss over them as food. We used to figure 4 squirrels 'meated up' a spaghetti sauce just right for 6 people. Maybe our greys are bigger than yours? [I've only hunted them in NY] The labor/meat ratio is better than for partridge or woodcock. It has been a long time since I dressed one, but I'd guess a good one went about 1-1 1/2 pounds. That sounds like a mighty meaty gray's - around here they are way too scrawy to eat, figure two per person. As a kid back on the farm I'd hunt fox squirrels - plenty of tasty meat. |
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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
"Jack" wrote in message
... Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them cut down with stumps ground 2005-6. The trees that were cut were chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the property to serve as a reservoir of mulch. The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if you heap them. You have to regularly add filler (from mulch reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely. Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and ankles. Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and acorns are buried there. So they dig, removing the filler. You cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the mulch reservoir. It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray squirrel. Do you like fishing? Mepps, the lure manufacturer will pay you for squirrel tails. http://www.mepps.com/squirrel_tail_program/ |
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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
"Jack" wrote in message ... On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:23:19 GMT, "brooklyn1" wrote: "Jack" wrote in message ... Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them cut down with stumps ground 2005-6. The trees that were cut were chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the property to serve as a reservoir of mulch. The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if you heap them. You have to regularly add filler (from mulch reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely. Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and ankles. Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and acorns are buried there. So they dig, removing the filler. You cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the mulch reservoir. It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray squirrel. It's very silly counting on wood mulch to fill those rotting stump holes unless you don't mind the process taking as many years as it did to grow those trees. You're making your own misery... get some soil hauled in... has nothing to do with squirrels, you old scapegoat. LOL Quite a bit of that wood mulch has rotted down to soil. 50% or so, I'd guess. More like less than .0000001% of vegetable matter becomes soil. |
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:28:34 GMT, "brooklyn1"
wrote: "Jack" wrote in message .. . On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:23:19 GMT, "brooklyn1" wrote: "Jack" wrote in message ... Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them cut down with stumps ground 2005-6. The trees that were cut were chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the property to serve as a reservoir of mulch. The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if you heap them. You have to regularly add filler (from mulch reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely. Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and ankles. Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and acorns are buried there. So they dig, removing the filler. You cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the mulch reservoir. It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray squirrel. It's very silly counting on wood mulch to fill those rotting stump holes unless you don't mind the process taking as many years as it did to grow those trees. You're making your own misery... get some soil hauled in... has nothing to do with squirrels, you old scapegoat. LOL Quite a bit of that wood mulch has rotted down to soil. 50% or so, I'd guess. More like less than .0000001% of vegetable matter becomes soil. Well, if you don't wanna call it soil, that's OK. Half of it since 2005 looks like soil and grass sprouts in many of the stump sites where it was deposited like it's a loam soil .... If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... In other words, it works for the purpose intended. And if I spent a shitload of money to have soil hauled into the 300 stump sites, the damn squirrels would still be digging in it. |
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Jack wrote:
"brooklyn1" wrote: "Jack" wrote in message "brooklyn1" wrote: It's very silly counting on wood mulch to fill those rotting stump holes unless you don't mind the process taking as many years as it did to grow those trees. You're making your own misery... get some soil hauled in... has nothing to do with squirrels, you old scapegoat. LOL Quite a bit of that wood mulch has rotted down to soil. 50% or so, I'd guess. More like less than .0000001% of vegetable matter becomes soil. Well, if you don't wanna call it soil, that's OK. Half of it since 2005 looks like soil and grass sprouts in many of the stump sites where it was deposited like it's a loam soil .... If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... [...] Well, if mulch doesn't become soil, I'd like to know where all that mulch went that I've laid down in my landscaping every year over the past 20 years... |
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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:22:14 -0500, AL wrote:
Jack wrote: "brooklyn1" wrote: "Jack" wrote in message "brooklyn1" wrote: It's very silly counting on wood mulch to fill those rotting stump holes unless you don't mind the process taking as many years as it did to grow those trees. You're making your own misery... get some soil hauled in... has nothing to do with squirrels, you old scapegoat. LOL Quite a bit of that wood mulch has rotted down to soil. 50% or so, I'd guess. More like less than .0000001% of vegetable matter becomes soil. Well, if you don't wanna call it soil, that's OK. Half of it since 2005 looks like soil and grass sprouts in many of the stump sites where it was deposited like it's a loam soil .... If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... [...] Well, if mulch doesn't become soil, I'd like to know where all that mulch went that I've laid down in my landscaping every year over the past 20 years... Amen. |
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Gotta Start Killing Squirrels -- Hate To Do It
AL wrote:
Jack wrote: "brooklyn1" wrote: "Jack" wrote in message "brooklyn1" wrote: It's very silly counting on wood mulch to fill those rotting stump holes unless you don't mind the process taking as many years as it did to grow those trees. You're making your own misery... get some soil hauled in... has nothing to do with squirrels, you old scapegoat. LOL Quite a bit of that wood mulch has rotted down to soil. 50% or so, I'd guess. More like less than .0000001% of vegetable matter becomes soil. Well, if you don't wanna call it soil, that's OK. Half of it since 2005 looks like soil and grass sprouts in many of the stump sites where it was deposited like it's a loam soil .... If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... [...] Well, if mulch doesn't become soil, I'd like to know where all that mulch went that I've laid down in my landscaping every year over the past 20 years... Don' cha know? It's SPACE ALIENS!!! |
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On Jun 27, 8:22*pm, AL wrote:
Jack wrote: *"brooklyn1" wrote: "Jack" *wrote in message "brooklyn1" wrote: It's very silly counting on wood mulch to fill those rotting stump holes unless you don't mind the process taking as many years as it did to grow those trees. *You're making your own misery... get some soil hauled in... has nothing to do with squirrels, you old scapegoat. LOL Quite a bit of that wood mulch has rotted down to soil. *50% or so, I'd guess. More like less than .0000001% of vegetable matter becomes soil. Well, if you don't wanna call it soil, that's OK. Half of it since 2005 looks like soil and grass sprouts in many of the stump sites where it was deposited like it's a loam soil .... If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... [...] Well, if mulch doesn't become soil, I'd like to know where all that mulch went that I've laid down in my landscaping every year over the past 20 years... All of the mulch and compost I put down eventually breaks down and the soil level returns to approximately where it was previously. During the wet season this can happen rather quickly. I have a bed where I have added compost and mulch several times. The soil there is nice a friable and it is perfectly level with the surrounding area. The wood chip mulch I put down earlier this year has almost completely disappeared. |
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