Re: Field Broadcaster

[Virginia Salares]

Title: Re: Field Broadcaster

Dear Sharon,   You are most generous and I imagine unruffled even when the corn plants you have sweated over are all broken, your trees are continually browsed or the fruits that you've waited for are strewn all over the place before they even mature.  While they may eat some, the damage they cause is to an extent that some people have given up growing a garden altogether.  Too bad, because gardening is immensely therapeutic and healing. For animals, there are wild plants in abundance which may be much more healing for them.   Virginia   ----- Original Message ----- From: kentjamescarson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 11:11 PM Subject: Re: Field Broadcaster the solution has always been to plant enough for the animals, animals come when they need healing and perhaps your greater service to the world is to help them. ? in the world around us , they are being crowded, perhaps their appearance is a message. to help them, not discourage them. I remember having  a problem with something eating something in the early years and it really seems to be a matter of balance, although that is very hard to explain, just that one must plant extra or allow extra for nature and nature will care for you.   :)sharon  --  --- Original Message ----- From: Virginia Salares To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 9:23 PM Subject: Re: Field Broadcaster Louise,   Several rabbits weree romping and eating my plants earlier in the season.  However, we have not seen them for a while.  I suspect a predator has made a meal of them.   When we thought our vegetable garden was safe, a groundhog took the rabbits' place in spite of an electric fence. (Incidentally, the fence couldn't keep the rabbits away.  They didn't seem to get shocked.) Someone told me groundhogs will move away if one pours or aims urine into the hole they go through.   Too late now for the squashes which have all been eaten.   This pest story truly happened an hour ago.  We have a grape vine against the house on a metal arbor.  The arbor is a bit awkward to net. My son came to tell me there's a raccoon on the arbor.  I didn't believe him, so we got a flashlight and true enough, it was perched eating bunches of grapes and unmoved by four people shooing him off.  My husband got the hose and directed it full blast on him.  He scampered above the trellis to the stucco just below the gables, trying to run sideways as the water followed him.  Suddenly  there was a big thump on the cement and away he ran.  Now I know who has been eating my grapes.  He must have found the Swenson Red grapes tasty even before they are ripe.   I can continue with my deer troubles...   Today, I started making the kites as per Gil's instructions (see the archives, January 21, 2002).  I made two pairs of cedar crosses (half-jointed and dimensions from Gil) that will form the framework for the kites. I actually enjoyed making them.  Tomorrow I will be winding the copper wire to form the kites.  I hope to finish these before the animals raid the Asian pears.   Virginia   - Original Message ----- From: Louise Berry To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 4:04 AM Subject: Re: Field Broadcaster I want to keep rabbits off my property, away from my plants  and out of my life...how do I make contact