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Gardening and climate change
On 12/03/2015 2:01 PM, songbird wrote:
Fran Farmer wrote: (snip) I have finally mananged to stop him ripping out my verbasums now as I finally corrected his misidentification of them. yes, living as a cooperative between more than one person is a challenge. i lose garden spaces or plant diversity here when Ma decides to smother a garden or mows down some of my plants and it doesn't get replanted. right now i'm going to lose another garden this year, but pick up a few more next year or the year after. depends upon what i can get done. there's probably a few dozen rabbits Wow. Lucky yu haaving so few. one night we left 8 dead one son the grass that had been shot. All were gone next morning and we still have more bunnies than we know how to get rid of. (Lord - look at that. Ending a sentence with a preposition! I'm disgusted with myself). around here and i surely don't need any more, but our main veggie gardens are fenced and don't get too many rabbits in them. the fence is more to keep the deer out than the other creatures. i have more damage from woodchucks that climb through the fence. i hope i've discouraged those enough this past year that we don't have them back this year. we'll see. the birds we have are not too damaging to veggie or my strawberry production, they get at some of the bushes that have berries, but we don't eat those berries so they are welcome to them. no major fruit trees growing either as of yet, so all birds are welcome here. if they eat a few of the strawberries i don't mind, there are enough, they make up for it in bugs they eat. We have our strawbs eaten by the lizards and they never seem to suffer any damage from birds. Our fruit trees are a different matter. Leave one unnetted and the cockatoos can strip it in hours. i'm actually surprised by how well the gardens outside the fenced areas do, some do get raided at times, but i rarely lose an entire garden's production. planting multiple crops, some intermixed, etc. seems to keep them from finding everything. these sort of experiments continue as i get time for them. One of our garden writers recommends that sort of planting. You might find her site interesting: http://www.jackiefrench.com/cal.html today i got a first look at the south drainage situation with the melting snow coming off quickly. the ground is still frozen and the water is coming across the surface. not too likely we'll have any flooding this spring as we don't have a lot of snow cover and the forecast isn't pointing at heavy rains yet. the nights are still mostly near or below freezing so that is actually a good thing as that will keep the trees from budding out too soon. i was worrying the other day that it was getting too warm too quickly again, but so far so good. The pics you've shown of the flooding in your garden in the past certainly explain why you'd be worried. queen-annes-lace is one of those weeds that will colonize our clay soil, but the cover is so poor that i don't really like them, instead i'm adding fennel which is much more edible and provides more shade. there's no danger of there being too little of the lace as it abounds along every roadside like the dandelion or chickory. i'm also adding short round carrots to the mix of plantings this season. they might work in our heavy soils. we'll see what happens... every season is a new adventure... Ain't that the truth! |
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