squirrels stealing tomatoes

hahah Sometimes, my fingers do the spelling vs. my brain! It goes back to my original typing class on that manual typewriter (a dinosaur now) in Jr High school where we practiced certain letter combinations to gain speed. I didn't type very fast back then, but when I hit the chat scene using computer keyboards I jumped from 30wpm to about 70wpm and some of that was typing in chat shorthand which had nothing to do with spelling correctly, so I'm doubly disabled as a typist, now! {{smacks hands}}

I hit backspace or delete more than I care to admit! Sometimes, I hit send before I see the errors. I'm bad.. I confess.. I need to join 'bad spellers when typing' anonymous and improve my act. {kicks dirt}

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Natural Girl
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I had typing in HS on a manual. Kids have it so easy today. I hated typing though I did learn QWERTY which apparently is not going away until voice recognition gets perfected, but looks like kb's will be around for a while still... I hated manual typing and getting to the last line of the page and screwing up and the teacher saying I had to start all over on a new page. And there was still carbon paper around then. The original cc: Kids don't know how easy they have it! Or, what it was like walking 5 miles to school, in below zero weather, in a foot of snow, and being chased by wolves on the way.

We had locks at work where you had to push in buttons with both hands in a certain sequence. I did them so many times, I didn't have to look at the numbers. Occasionally someone new would ask the combination and I couldn't tell them. I would have to get up and go to the door and let my fingers so it and decode what my fingers did. They say the body has memory that the conscious mind isn't always conscious of.

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Gus

No, just suggesting that her experiment showed that wasabi is more effective deterent than the commonly recommended hot pepper.

Yes, you need the wire netting with small (1") openings. But it's not so hard to make panels by stapling the wire netting to wood strips. Then you can put several panels together so that they stand up. Just untie them to get to the tomatoes.

(I used to use chicken wire panels 8' tall and 4' wide to protect my block plantings of sweet corn, before we put in the fence with the shock wire.)

Pure mustard oil is the hot, eye-watering agent in mustard seeds and other pungeant cruciferous vegetables (like radishes, horseradish and wasabi).

I've some experience with it being used in Korean cuisine. A little goes a long, long way when you are dining.

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Pat Kiewicz

billy should know that a good woman don't spell, don't smell and don't swell.

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Frank

Where does one procure it? If I ask at Kroger will they look at me askance?

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Gus

haha! chased by wolves? You had it worse than me, then! We didn't have wolves chasing us. We had coyotes!

Did you ever see the movie "The Apple Dumpling Gang"?

Does this bring back memories, "I'm-a teachin' my fanger to read!"

I always laughed at that line.

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Natural Girl

I had a family of squirrels ate their way into the porch roof of the house next door. When the house was rehabbed the porch was torn off for a couple months the squirrels lost their home so they came to our house and ate their way into the soffet and eaves. We tried nearly everything, rebuilding, even metal wrapping where they were getting in. Nothing worked. I had to get rid of every single one of them before there were none left with the "memory" of eating into and living in the house.

I trap them in a havahart baited with peanut butter. When they are trapped I submerge the cage in a full 40 gallon fish tank. It is fast and doesnt stink up the trap for the next squirrel. The same works for squirrels eating fruit. If you get the ones have figured it out it takes time for another to figure out the fruit is good.

Ingrid ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Somewhere between zone 5 and 6 tucked along the shore of Lake Michigan on the council grounds of the Fox, Mascouten, Potawatomi, and Winnebago

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dr-solo

I once caught a mole digging through my garden. I could see it digging so I got a shovel and dug it up and caught it in a jar. Creepy looking critters, too. I didn't want to set it free so it could harass some other person and dig up their yard, so I kind of did what you did with the squirrel, only in the jar. When it had expired I just poured out the water, put the lid back on, and put it in the trash can... It's been years since that happened, though. Haven't caught another one going through my garden since.

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Natural Girl

I too use a Havahart trap for squirrels. When I catch a squirrel, I place the trap on several layers of newspaper in my car. Then I drive about 5 miles across a nearby freeway (10 lanes) to a national park and turn it loose. There are pleanty of hungry owls, hawks, and coyotes in the park. (The newspaper is in case the squirrel finds the trip so exciting that it has an "accident" in my car.)

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David E. Ross

Orthography aside, I find it odd that I feed our local squirrels, and have never had a tomato stolen by them. I feed the birds, and they don't dig up my seedlings, and the raccoons, who graze the compost pile, only do minimal damage. Today I enjoyed the insects dancing inthe sunlight, the pas de deux by a pair of monarch butterflies, the birds at the feeder, and the grey squirrel who looked for errant seed under the feeder. I enjoy my gardening breaks.

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Billy

When I was a kid, I had this friend, Billy, who was deathly afraid of snakes.

I caught a small garter snake, put it in an empty bag of M&M's and offered the candy to Billy.

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Frank

Some places, catch and release is not allowed. Here in Delaware, you can catch and drown them but not release them. I've done it anyway, once right in front of a county cop at police substation in local park. He said nothing. In fact, when he looked over at me, I told him I had come to release a prisoner and let the squirrel out right in front of him. Would have been better to be surreptitious.

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Frank

ACKKKKK!!!!!!! LOL The stuff boys do to each other!!

An aside ... some time ago a friend of mine went to open a sealed package of microwave oatmeal for her breakfast. A petrified dead mouse was in the package instead of oatmeal. The oatmeal company said they'd give her a new box of oatmeal for her problem. She doesn't buy packaged oatmeal anymore!

A funny ... my friends husband was out in the yard raking leaves to prepare the garden for it's final spring clean up from winter when she said he started shouting and doing a bit of a dance. She came running over and he was shouting something about a snake! She wasn't too scared of snakes and more curious, so she was looking to see what sort of a snake it was and took the rake to sift about through the leaves. It turnes out that it was a fairly large night crawler that was wiggling around because it had been disturbed! Her husband wasn't amused despite she nearly fell down laughing at him!

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Natural Girl

Good idea to look at what you eat. I once munched a stink bug. I quit growing leaf lettuce after a creepy crawler came out if it when on my plate. Same for broccoli with big green worms that are hard to see.

Snakes don't bother me but my wife is deathly afraid of them. I remove them from property if I catch them. Think I mentioned I've caught a few large black snakes in deer netting.

Me. I don't like spiders but they do not bother my wife. Strange, isn't it?

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Frank

You can catch and release but it has to be pretty far away or they come back. And if it far away, well then they are in unfamiliar territory and in an area likely already occupied. So it may be less cruel to euthanize... But if the damn things could just live in harmony with my me and leave most my tomatoes alone, then I would not have ill feelings for them. They are not good neighbors!

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Gus

When I was young, a friend bit into an apple. And after chewing a bit noticed a worm in the apple... half a worm.

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Gus

My mom used to get Mrs Grasse soup when I was young. One day I open the box (it was dehydrated noodles with a flavor packet). I poured out the box into a bowl and there was an empty locust shell... I never ate that brand again.

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Gus

yuk .. I don't blamer her.

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Natural Girl

I once got food poisoning from a Wendy's salad bar (back when they had salad bars in the 80s). I was on a trip with my parents to my brother's graduation at Penn State and famished. The salad dressing tasted a little funny but I was so hungry I ate it and didn't think of it. That night and the next afternoon I threw up more times than I could count. After I passed out from being dehydrated and throwing up so much, they took the situation more serious and took me to a health clinic. (Where I went to sleep on Saturday afternoon and when I woke up it was Sunday night.)... I didn't eat blue cheese dressing for over 10 years. But one day, I did. I still am a bit leery of it but like it on salad now and then.

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Gus

I'm stymied by squirrels as there does not appear to be a natural balance with them as they can escape predators by climbing trees. When something like the rabbit population increases, the foxes move in and wipe them out and when the rabbits are gone the foxes leave and cycle repeats.

Squirrels and deer are constant invaders with out predators where I live. I like to tell my wife that I have the cure but she won't have it.

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Frank

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