It's time to get started!
I need a lot of dirt moved so I got a tractor.
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It's little but it's a hard worker.
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I'm going to build a bunch of raised boxes with screened bottoms to try to fight the gophers off.
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Lance, I can just see you running around like Bill Murray in Caddyshack.

"Here Mr Gopher, gopher, gopher...."


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I got some tomatoes, flowers and tobacco started. Not much to show yet.
Lisa and I still have to plant the rest of the seeds next weekend. I'll probably work on transplants then, too.
I need to carry myself out there and clean the garden up. I still have a couple months before I need to, but maybe if it's done I'll get broccoli and lettuce in before July. :-)
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I think I killed close to 30 of them last year and they still ate all my potatoes.
I have blown one up, too. Last resort. Poison and repellents don't work.

Deer and gophers make it very challenging for me.
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The tulips& crokus I planted at my ex-wife's house are about to pop. Part of me wants to go take them all out and put them in pots at my place.
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I love a nice garden and this is not a garden per se but I have a squishy backyard due to Voles. Any thoughts? I have no problem killing them as I am not a PETA member.
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:-) "The EX-games"
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Bought my first place in December and am thinking about giving a small garden a go - maybe some tomatoes, various peppers, some herbs ....

I read through the '09 gardens thread and saw some great-looking plots of land!
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I had a female black lab that used to eat moles and voles and mice all day long. She could hear them. She was especially brutal on nests. She'd dig them up and throw all the babies in the air and stomple them.
She wasn't really down with the PETA, either. :-)
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I feel like we have to hear the story involved in this one....
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Can I rent her for a couple of weekends?
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I can't seem to face up to the facts
Gophers like my garden so I
Can't relax
I can't eat 'cause the gophers got the vegies
Don't touch me I'm shootin' them in the hedges

Gopher Killer
Qu'est Que C'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Gopher Killer
Qu'est Que C'est
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away


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I'd totally let the smelly old girl come over, but "had" is the key word here. I planted her and the ex-wife's cat from hell in that yard before we moved. That was a lot of years ago.
Her son is still living, I lost him in the divorce. He's not much of a mouser unless I throw them at him, but he doesn't stink.
If you can get an English Lab with a good nose, they are awesome mousers. Even a good English American cross. American bred labs, not so much.
I can't wait to get another one of those fat smelly buggers. I really miss my dog. His mom, not so much. :-)

Q: What kind of woman would take a man's dog in a divorce?
A: The kind I divorce.
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I wish I could tell it.:-)
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Been there done that Scott and can't say I'll ever do it again. As someone once said "Why would I want to break back into prison?"
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I've got enough experience that I think I can pick a little better nowadays, but I will admit it was a few years before I even gave it a thought. I do believe the newest is going to be around for a long, long time.
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Mouse traps or poison bait.
http://voles.com/How_to_Kill_Voles.htm

Between the cats, dogs, owls, hawks, coyotes, ravens, snakes, bobcats, and other predators, voles don't seem to have a chance around here. The only time I see evidence of them is after the first meadow mowing. Then they are exposed.
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:-) Hooray! Killed the first gopher of the year. Last year it was something like 28 of them. This year I'm going for blocking them but they are still not welcome.

Almost through moving dirt around.
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I can't compete with you Lance...but I setup a small square foot garden yesterday...

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