Haha. Mine is 16 and it’s a little more of a push than it used to be but like you said we all must work for our food! I’m over come with weeds too. Sounds like you got some great things going!
What did you do in the garden today?
- Thread starter Dara77
- Start date
I do my groundhog proofing with a shot gun.
Lol. That’ll work. Wish I could do that. Guess I may work up the guts if something was after my chickens
Really hot . Thinking of going out before it is dark .
We are low 70 here sim showed up then went between hiding and showing all day now it out again but sticking around till it sets about 9
@lazy gardener, I live in a place where discharging a firearm is illegal or else I would. 
I'm in a desperately suburban environment - remember the garden club? Someone got in trouble when I was very little in this neighborhood for dispatching a baby deer in their garden with a shovel. She was like, 80 years old and went to jail for it! o_o; Simultaneously the city animal warden won't do anything about nuisance animals and suggests catching them in a live trap and drowning them. As if that's somehow ok!? It's an awkward place to live for a girl that likes livestock.
I'm in a desperately suburban environment - remember the garden club? Someone got in trouble when I was very little in this neighborhood for dispatching a baby deer in their garden with a shovel. She was like, 80 years old and went to jail for it! o_o; Simultaneously the city animal warden won't do anything about nuisance animals and suggests catching them in a live trap and drowning them. As if that's somehow ok!? It's an awkward place to live for a girl that likes livestock.
Seriously? Your ACO needs to be fired. What would the ACO do if it was a bear? Would he also expect you to trap it and drown it?
Yep. He didn't even know that chickens were legal when I moved in. I called him to talk about the fact that I was getting them - trying to play nice, ya know? - and he was like "Chickens are illegal and we'll have to remove them from your property". And then I told him I was staring right at the ordinances listed online and updated that year and that they weren't and I was getting them, and basically that they could try to remove them over my lawyers cold dead hands.
I don't know if the same guy still works there, but they're not a good or useful group anyhow. The ACOs do nothing about loose animals that aren't dogs. They won't catch stray cats that poop in your gardens or harass your animals, they won't even TNR them if they're not fixed, even though letting your cat off your own property is illegal. I've showed off the extra-bold deer the past winter if you recall, we are expected to just live with them even if they are bucks in rut and even though they cause regular car accidents. We are also expected to live with and do our "due vigilance" to protect kids, cats and small dogs from the local coyotes. I suspect that if a bear showed up they would call the county animal control and make them deal with it.
On the other hand, they're also super useless about enforcing the stupid laws on the books, so it's not like they're just selectively bad to harass people... Like there used to be a law on the books that you couldn't own non-cat-and-dog animals in your home. Like pet rabbits were illegal with the way the law was phrased, but it was never enforced. And there's a law on the books that dogs can't be left outdoors under any circumstances for more than 3 hours at a time. Super unenforceable and also not enforced, people leave their dogs on tie outs or in fenced lawns all day long with nobody snooping or writing up fines.
So the TL;DR is that the groundhog problem is mine to solve... But humanely because animal cruelty laws ARE enforced.
I don't know if the same guy still works there, but they're not a good or useful group anyhow. The ACOs do nothing about loose animals that aren't dogs. They won't catch stray cats that poop in your gardens or harass your animals, they won't even TNR them if they're not fixed, even though letting your cat off your own property is illegal. I've showed off the extra-bold deer the past winter if you recall, we are expected to just live with them even if they are bucks in rut and even though they cause regular car accidents. We are also expected to live with and do our "due vigilance" to protect kids, cats and small dogs from the local coyotes. I suspect that if a bear showed up they would call the county animal control and make them deal with it.
On the other hand, they're also super useless about enforcing the stupid laws on the books, so it's not like they're just selectively bad to harass people... Like there used to be a law on the books that you couldn't own non-cat-and-dog animals in your home. Like pet rabbits were illegal with the way the law was phrased, but it was never enforced. And there's a law on the books that dogs can't be left outdoors under any circumstances for more than 3 hours at a time. Super unenforceable and also not enforced, people leave their dogs on tie outs or in fenced lawns all day long with nobody snooping or writing up fines.
So the TL;DR is that the groundhog problem is mine to solve... But humanely because animal cruelty laws ARE enforced.
Last edited:
I was fit to be tied looking over my roses I have about 12 I found APHIDS on them
ran in the hose frantic soapy water BF handed me a spray bottle did the mix sprayed them down each and every one
ran in the hose frantic soapy water BF handed me a spray bottle did the mix sprayed them down each and every one
Dh and I were looking at the orchard Sunday and found damage to one of our crepe myrtles from a deer. The first one on this place since I've lived here. Our dogs are getting old and stay in the shed most of the time now. Biscuit is not as old but has nearly blind.
I heard the deer out there in the dark early Monday morning. But I can't see in the dark.
Dh was mad that this deer tore up his tree. So I guess he'll be watching for it when he's home on the weekend. I wonder how much of my newly planted garden it will eat before dh gets the chance.
I heard the deer out there in the dark early Monday morning. But I can't see in the dark.
Dh was mad that this deer tore up his tree. So I guess he'll be watching for it when he's home on the weekend. I wonder how much of my newly planted garden it will eat before dh gets the chance.
Similar threads
New posts New threads Active threads
-
Latest threads
-
-
-
The playground is done! And yes we like curtains- Started by My Very First 6 Chickens
- Replies: 1
-
-
-
-
Threads with more replies in the last 15 days
-
-
-
-
Two dead chicks in brooder pen
- Started by redinator
- Replies: 69
-
-
