My garden is basically a huge PIB !!!

[Chuck52]

And my wife wonders why I come in late in the afternoon grumbling under my breath "Frickin garden is more bother than it's worth".

I feel your pain. But, for whatever reason, we come back every year.

I can live with th eweeds and four legged creatures ... I can manage to keep them out mostly. However, the BIRDS are killing me. They eat my watermellon.

MoKelly[/QUOTE]

The birds get my apples and peaches, but so far they haven't bothered the vegetable garden. I think you need to kill all the birds in your area to keep them from spreading that knowledge! Maybe they are GMO birds created by Monsanto so they can sell GMO vegetables that are resistant to the GMO birds!

Chuck

 

[JDgreen227]

I feel your pain. But, for whatever reason, we come back every year.

I can live with th eweeds and four legged creatures ... I can manage to keep them out mostly. However, the BIRDS are killing me. They eat my watermellon.

MoKelly

The birds get my apples and peaches, but so far they haven't bothered the vegetable garden. I think you need to kill all the birds in your area to keep them from spreading that knowledge! Maybe they are GMO birds created by Monsanto so they can sell GMO vegetables that are resistant to the GMO birds!

Chuck[/QUOTE]

What I need to take care of the furred and feathered critters is one of these guys on every post top, 24/7....

 

[Car Doc]

I cuss the weeds and grass and birds pecking my tomatoes and the worms eating my corn and rabbits chewing up my peppers but I come back next year and do it again there has to be a lesson in here somewhere?

 

[lockhaven]

about the deer fence, I read an article a few years ago that Penn State had done a study for deer fence and found that taking an electric fence and leaning the posts out worked well. They said the deer always try and go under a fence first by leaning it out they duck the first strand but get zapped by the second. I also saw a fence made from rails designed to keep elk out again the fence leaned out, They must not be smart enough to know they could jump it and keep trying to go under. Biggest problem I have is with the bears they just don't give a rats behind.

 

[Western]

I have 2 volunteer Watermelons that are growing darn good out the back door where I had some dozer work done. The deer have got within 30' eating anything they can find, my wifes Sunflower patch is gone and the surrounding weeds even (been so dry) and of course all the little deer tracks.

I have vowed to make a stand and protect my melon plants, short of out of season "hardware" I moved the dogs fence closer ,so now I have a "early warning" system:laughing: So far so good.

 

[Deere Dude]

I think I have a bunch of $64 tomatoes, but I can't complain to much. I have a $30,000 petunia trans-planter. :laughing::laughing:

 

[dooleysm]

This sounds alot like the rant I unleashed on my wife the other night. Between the torrential rains followed by weeks of drought, my garden is a mess. The stuff that does come up is swamped by weeds by the time it dries out enough to get in the garden to till and hoe. Then everything dries out and dies. I don't get how I can till a patch, plant beans, keep it all hoed and tilled for a month, then take a week off and the weeds are twice as tall as the beans.

But as someone else said, come February, I'll be itching to be back out there at it again!

 

[JDgreen227]

I think I have a bunch of $64 tomatoes, but I can't complain to much. I have a $30,000 petunia trans-planter. :laughing::laughing:

GOOD ONE...:laughing:

As long as you didn't spend the 30 grand JUST to transplant petunias, you are doing just fine.

And for what it is worth, I just logged out of Ebay, purchased a copy of that book "The $64 Tomatoe"....

After spending $500 plus for that fence, and a lot more on landscape fabric, sets, seeds, etc, I figured $5 for a gardening book was easy to justify. As my brother loves to say, "what's a few more dollars...." :laughing:

 

[JDgreen227]

I cuss the weeds and grass and birds pecking my tomatoes and the worms eating my corn and rabbits chewing up my peppers but I come back next year and do it again there has to be a lesson in here somewhere?

You are in the same situation I am...when spring planting season arrives your memory is so bad you cannot remember what was so discouraging about your gardening LAST SPRING.

Join the club....:laughing:

 

[Car Doc]

You are in the same situation I am...when spring planting season arrives your memory is so bad you cannot remember what was so discouraging about your gardening LAST SPRING.

Join the club....:laughing:

Yeah maybe its CRS syndrome getting to us a little or just age I dunno!

I know what it is we get to do some tractoring yeah thats it!!!