Monday, August 18, 2014
six more ears
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six more ears of maize have been done in by rodents...some are shredded ( and one in the second photo would have been hopi blue from seed grown in the old garden...we can still hope for some continuity but our chances are dwindling ) and a couple in the third photo are pretty much picked clean...depressing but not unexpected...this is why i mostly grow root crops at home...there are good ears left but i am not sanguine about their survival to human ready ripeness...there is a mix of good and bad in the garden..you can learn a lot about life out there...a universe in microcosm...okay...enough philosophy...time to research non-lethal squirrel control for next season...you have to be more determined than the problem or it wins.
Organic rather than transgenetic. Labor instead of chemicals. Diversity in place of monoculture.
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- the garden is emptying
- the last potato harvest of 2014 ( for my yard anyw...
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- vestigial II
- just about the last of the back yard spuds
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- six more ears
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- fred
- an ex- industrial worker ( the continued automation of jobs, condensing of ownership, plant closings, trade wars, and degradation of living standards here has rendered me a former industrial worker...now just part-time lumpen proletariat) and university student (everyone needs a hobby...my hobbies have evolved and, to keep things straight, i have left my formal student career behind for reasons that are too detailed to delve into here...continuing to be a student of life however and not adverse to learning...stasis is death ) sliding down the back side of middle age...a social loner with collectivist leanings...explain that.
I will be vigilant and ask my dog to do extra squirrel control duty...corn plants continue to grow, hope they have enough time to complete their life cycle
ReplyDeletemaize is a popular food across the zoological spectrum so i will say "good luck"...daisy the garden cat would eviscerate squirrels whenever possible out back...they still ate the maize...what we salvage from the garden after squirrel attacks will now go to the chickens instead of the compost heap..a good suggestion form cynthia about a practical response to the critters' natural behavior.
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