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Fun thread: Share the good stuff in our lives? Fun things we plan to do?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 679262" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>I beg to differ with the husband! </p><p> </p><p> Every spring when I'd plant my (4x8) bed, I would have stuff dug up by squirrels. I hate them. So finally I bought PVC pipe and elbows and made three "wickets" 4 ft long by 3 ft tall, stuck them in the bed using little rebar stakes to hold them up, then stretched bird netting over the whole thing. The bushy-tailed rodents went under the sides, so I took landscaping blocks and edged the entire thing, over the netting. Once stuff started coming up and getting big enough that I'd have to take the cover off, I'd put tufts of dog hair (I got a bag at Petco's grooming salon) all over to try to repel them. It looked like the garden was covered with hamsters! When the deer would start grazing, I'd hang streamers and wind chimes trying to scare them off. The last time I took the netting and draped it from the trellis top all the way to the bottom of the bed, then hung wind chimes from the netting so they'd make noise. </p><p> </p><p>We're in the middle of town too! My battle with the critters is the stuff of legend. LOL</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/warriorsmiley.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":warriorsmiley:" title="warriorsmiley :warriorsmiley:" data-shortname=":warriorsmiley:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 679262, member: 17309"] I beg to differ with the husband! Every spring when I'd plant my (4x8) bed, I would have stuff dug up by squirrels. I hate them. So finally I bought PVC pipe and elbows and made three "wickets" 4 ft long by 3 ft tall, stuck them in the bed using little rebar stakes to hold them up, then stretched bird netting over the whole thing. The bushy-tailed rodents went under the sides, so I took landscaping blocks and edged the entire thing, over the netting. Once stuff started coming up and getting big enough that I'd have to take the cover off, I'd put tufts of dog hair (I got a bag at Petco's grooming salon) all over to try to repel them. It looked like the garden was covered with hamsters! When the deer would start grazing, I'd hang streamers and wind chimes trying to scare them off. The last time I took the netting and draped it from the trellis top all the way to the bottom of the bed, then hung wind chimes from the netting so they'd make noise. We're in the middle of town too! My battle with the critters is the stuff of legend. LOL :warriorsmiley: [/QUOTE]
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