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Gardening

dixiegrrrrl

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1. Gotta admit, that is a first for me.

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Sun Jun 23, 2013, 06:29 PM

Jun 2013

I've had deer eat my roses
the neighbor's goats eat my garden greens
armadillos munching down the strawberries
opposums digging up root vegies

and the usual tomato hornworms
but never had to deal with rats.

You need cats, methinks.

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Damn it [View all] uppityperson Jun 2013 OP

Gotta admit, that is a first for me. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #1

It is worse. We have 3 cats that bring us dead rodents, a dog and the rat ran through the chickens uppityperson Jun 2013 #2

Chickens....remnds me...a 6 foot plus rat snake in our chicken's nest dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #3

They are peaking in the state about now, one of those things. The chickens all shut up and watched uppityperson Jun 2013 #4

I have actually seen a flock of chickens swarm and take down a mouse! hedgehog Sep 2013 #8

deer with the munchies, perhaps ginnyinWI Jun 2013 #5

Damn it, part 2 uppityperson Aug 2013 #6

Damn it, part 3 and positive news about Ozette fingerling spuds uppityperson Sep 2013 #7