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Bump up, we all need to keep remembering what happened. I wish we still had the original post with all of the pictures of the landfill.

I replanted for the 3rd time and I'm going to use the mixture from the first site to see how it goes. Thanks for the info, much appreciated!

Absolutely love them, I just wish they'd last longer!

Weeeeelll, the second planting of the beans was doing great. I kept spraying the Liquid Fence around the perimeter and also ammonia. But, it's been raining off and on and the rain seems to wash away my efforts. I checked after work today and they got my beans once again, I give up

We have a big garden and I'm not even going to suggest to hubby burying the fence, lol! I want to try the ammonia method. Is the only way using cloths? Would spraying it around the perimeter, like I do Liquid Fence work?

I've been spraying the stinky stuff around the perimeter of the garden (not cheap, but oh well!) and so far so good. But every time it rains, I have to spray again. But we need the rain. It's 1/2 dozen of this.......it's gardening, no guarantees, just lots of hoping for the best!

Just an update, it's those wascally wabbits! Funny, we used to have them everywhere, then the coyote moved in and we didn't see a rabbit for 3 or 4 years. Then they started to come back, then the coyote moved back in. Evidently the coyote moved on, because the rabbits are back big time. To be honest, I'd rather have the rabbits than the coyote. I just want them to stay out of the garden!

I just don't think that I can commit to an outdoor cat as nice it would be as to getting rid of some of the critters. I've always thought that cats should be held to the same restrictions as dogs. And even though we live out in the country, we've had a time or two when a cat has walked all over our vehicles, crapped in my flower beds, etc. If I had an outdoor cat, it may stray to someone else's home and do that to them. And the biggest reason is the thought of loving it and having it hit by a car is not something that I want to deal with.

Thanks for sharing the pix Petee, I can't believe they are that big! All thanks to LFG for the excellent info.

Post of the day for me. Unfortunately Nikon is right. I've seen the same things that he has. I am with LFG that I truly hope OSHA won't be bought and that this whole tragedy and the reasons are exposed. It always comes down to following the money trail. Not just nationally, statewide, county wide, but locally too.

I watched tonight's WJAC broadcast and felt the same way, goosebumps. And then listening to the communications between the guys and the video, OMG! I hope they keep investigating.

I hope the officials keep digging to find out the truth about this.

All of ours are the semi-dwarf and I'd really like to pant some more, but at this point hubby is totally against it. I'll probably work on him about it, we'll see

Hubby trims everything judiciously every year and our rhodies and all of the others come back great. Now as to azaleas I know that I've planted at least 50 over the years, not one has survived and I babied them, followed all kinds of advice to no avail. Evidently they hate our soil. Pretty much like fruit trees. Our pear trees like our soil, apples are so so. Plums are a no go. I had two peach trees that lasted 20 years, only produced 7 times, but they were so good! They eventually gave up the good fight. I just had to admit and agree with hubby tonight that our best pear tree is also done for this year. I could cry, the very best pears that I've ever had from anywhere, but it's been slowly getting worse and worse. Hubby trims them each year and we've tried numerous things, but nothing is working. I thought about getting another like it, but we're getting older and by the time it would be ready to produce, I hope to be traveling? Yeah right, we'll be right here, who am I kidding.

I forgot when I responded about getting a good mouser. I'd love to but hubby, son and grandsons are all allergic to cats. Only myself and dil are immune. Even though son and family don't live with us, they always stop in a few times each week and hubby would be miserable. I'd be afraid to have an outdoor only cat. Many reasons. Winter, all of the hawks that we see out here, roaming onto other's property, getting hit by a vehicle ....

I can't find the original thread, so Steve you can add this post to the original if you want. I watched this on WJAC tonight, interesting. http://wjactv.com/news/local/greentree-disputes-cracks-in-mid-january-says-would-get-dash-cam-videos-in-documents

Hmmm, I've never started them inside before! My other bed is doing great so far, evidently the chippies haven't discovered it yet. Usually the only problem I have with my sunflower beds are the deer. I faithfully spray the stinky stuff on them to keep deer away, but when we get rain numerous days in a row, it washes it all off and the deer start munching.

We thought about that, but nothing, absolutely nothing else was touched? Our peas are doing great and not one of them was touched, no peppers, kohlrabi, cabbage, etc. UGH! But, that's gardening. You just never know!

Arggg, the garden was looking so great! This morning I went up just to check and evidently a rabbit got underneath the lowest rung of our electric fence and feasted on the green and wax beans. No tracks at all, so it had to have been a rabbit. Most only have the stalk left, a few have a some leaves left. Nothing else was touched? Question is, if only the stalk is left, they're done for, correct? I tried to research it and got impatient trying to read through all of the sites that didn't give any answers. The plants were 5 - 6" high, I could have cried when I saw what happened. I posted previously about my one sunflower bed that the chippies destroyed, I replanted the seeds and the next morning I checked and it was all dug up again! How in the heck do they know that those new seeds are in the ground???

Okay on 6/10, I was heart sick at the way my garden looked. What a difference some rain makes! After the downpour we had on Thursday, I thought it may be all over, I was wrong. Other than the damage to my mucho nacho jalape

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I love snacking on them too! My favorite is to julienne them along with red onion, carrots and peppers with my Gram's cole slaw dressing. I found a recipe for fritters with kohlrabi and I think carrots and onions that I want to try if mine survive.

I just saw this and saw that Petee has four for you. If it doesn't work out and IF mine survive whatever is invading my garden, once ready, I'll share. I LOVE to make a kohlrabi slaw with other veggies! What do you do with them, same thing?

Chippies!!! I have two sunflower beds. One is doing very well. The other one, I had a lot of them coming up, but on Friday, I went to check on them and they were GONE! I could see where something was in there digging around. I know deer love them, but usually they wait until the sunflowers are bigger to attack them. And it wasn't deer tracks in the bed. Today, hubby was mowing and as he came around the garage by that bed, a chippie jumped out of the bed and made a bee line to the patio. I'm just hoping that it doesn't find the other sunflower bed. Hubby said he'd set a humane trap for it, I don't know if it will work or not. I'm going to replant tomorrow, though it's a little late. Does anyone know of anything to keep chippies out of flower beds?

Great pix, thanks for sharing. Your 4th one looks exactly what is happening to some of our plants. Hubby built two 4 x 10 raised beds last year just to see how they would do. They're in our regular garden. And then we plant the rest as usual. This year, I planted 6 mucho nacho jalapeno's, 12 regular jalape