Although they can be effective methods, they are potentially dangerous and can kill or harm other animals, pets and children. If you're looking for signs of spring, visit our local garden show.
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The Lehigh Valley Flower Show www. This year's theme is Gardens of the World; check out local landscapers' colorful displays, each featuring a garden from a different country.
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Noted garden personality Mike McGrath is one of the many experts speaking at the show. Bring your questions for the Penn State Master Gardeners, watch designers create fanciful arrangements and get ideas for this year's garden. This is a series of two-hour classes presented by Kirk Brown, local and nationally noted garden expert.
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His alter egos, John Bartram, Colonial plantsman, and Frederick Olmstead, garden designer, have educated and entertained garden groups for several years. This class, the first of a series, explores the fundamentals of garden design with basics on plant selection. Sue Kittek is a freelance garden columnist, writer, and lecturer. Send questions to Garden Keeper at grdnkpr gmail. Box , Allentown, PA Dahlia, larkspur and portulaca. Leaf lettuce, peppers and tomatoes. Check packets for instructions such as starting indoors four weeks before last frost date. Then, using a calendar, count back from your area's date April for southern Lehigh Valley, May for northern areas for the appropriate starting time.
Retest soil in poorly performing areas or those that haven't been tested in the last years. Note damaged limbs and candidates for winter pruning. Please check proper pruning information for each plant and prune as needed and recommended. The extremes of warm and cold weather can cause shallow rooted plants to come up out of the soil. Check supplies for spring. Reapply taste or scent deterrents. An epilogue to Funny Girl: Animals have a heightened sense of smell and they can't stand the smell or tingle of it.
If you are troubled by deer or rabbits eating plants in your garden, try this inexpensive spray. Whisk one egg with 1 cup water; pour into a 1 quart pistol grip spray bottle.
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Add 1 tsp dish soap. Ad Fill rest with water. Set outside in the sun for about 3 days, until it's putrefied. One little squirt does the job. You do not have to over saturate. Reapply after a rain. I heard it from a friend who has used it for a long time.
There are motion activated 'scare crows' that when there's moment of a dear, rabbit, bird, raccoon or other animal even your neighbors dig happy dog ill make a sudden movement to startle them away. That's also variations of that with a sprinkler that shoots a bit of water to startle the intruder away. There is absolutely no harm done to the animals and no poisons or affected plants. And its also aesthetically pleasing.
And unlike owl and coyote statues the animals wont become desensitized to them and ignore it. The only down fall is they may be a touch costly. And unlike topical sprays it wont harm the flowers or produce, It wont add a bad odor and you don't need to remember to reapply it weekly. This worked for an elderly gardener in the country: She saved her urine and buried open jars of it around the garden with the openings exposed. She also saved hair from her hairbrush and put it in the garden.
The motion activated sensors do not work for me. I have had rabbits eating grass right in front of them and squirrels don't seem bothered either. How do you keep the deer, squirrels, coons, ground hogs, and rabbits out or your garden? If you figure out a foolproof way, patent it, and you'll be rich! A good fence goes far in helping to keep them out; but groundhogs and raccoons can climb, and deer can jump unless it is very high.
The 'hogs will also dig underneath, as can rabbits. Ad If you can make a four-foot fence, with small enough wire to keep the rabbits out, you can run an electric fence wire at the top and bottom.
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Watch for digging, and you should be fine. I have tried the mothballs and marigolds, pepper wax, and all of that. It seems to make no difference for me. Since my fence is only 3 feet tall, and the 'hog gets in anyway, I am thinking that next year I may add the electric, or maybe plant a row of tasty things on the outside of the fence, to see if that will stop him before he goes in! I am also going to try a havahart trap. Only time will tell! Go get hair at the local salon or salons. We give lots free to people for their gardens.
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One of my favorite cooking ingredients is fresh herbs. I've grown many different kinds over the years: All have proved hardy enough to withstand the outdoors year round, even insects, here in Georgia, but they are usually mangled by reckless squirrels, even when I've grown them in large clay pots on our deck.
Ad At the moment, I'm experimenting with growing 4 varieties indoors in a sunny window, but they will soon be too big for that space. I suppose I could resort to covering them outside with netting, but wonder if there is a better way to protect them. I am looking forward to having your thoughts. Coyotes do a lot of damage in my area. They have killed my chickens, ducks, cats, taken down and killed several young calves, taken trash out of the trash barrel, rooted in the garden, torn up my compost pile, and carried of my kids toys and chewed on them.
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Several years ago a neighbor shot one that was acting strange and it was sent off. Durrell had already written several successful books about his trips collecting animals in the wild for zoos when he published My Family and Other Animals in Its comic exaggeration of the foibles of his family — especially his eldest brother Lawrence Durrell , who became a celebrated novelist and poet— and his heartfelt appreciation of the natural world made it very successful. He also became known as a novel-writer and television personality. His books helped stimulate the development of tourism in Corfu. The book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell, age 10 at the start of the saga, of his family, pets and life during a sojourn on the island of Corfu.
The book is divided into three sections, marking the three villas where the family lived on the island. Gerald is the youngest in a family consisting of their widowed mother , the eldest son Larry , the gun-mad Leslie, and diet -obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog. They are fiercely protected by their taxi-driver friend Spiro Spiros "Americano" Halikiopoupenelos and mentored by the polymath Dr. Theodore Stephanides who provides Gerald with his education in natural history.
Other human characters, chiefly eccentric, include Gerald's private tutors , the artistic and literary visitors Larry invites to stay, and the local people who befriend the family. The book was written in in Bournemouth , where Durrell was recuperating from a severe attack of jaundice.
Whereas Durrell often claimed to find writing a chore, this book was different: