From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 3/7/2025 9:48 AM, fos@sdf.org wrote:   
   > On 2025-03-07, Snag  wrote:   
   >   
   >>     So far I've got lettuce and bok choi seedlings peeping up thru the   
   >> soil . I've also got carrots in a tray and peppers and tomatoes in 4"   
   >> pots but I don't expect to see any action there for a few more days .   
   >   
   > i need to fortify my woodchuck defense before growing greens,   
   > cauliflower, broccoli, etc, again. last year i got the seeds in   
   > very early and had beautiful looking plants growing. previously   
   > i had started them too late and they bolted from the heat. last   
   > year, the woodchuck got through the fence around the raised beds   
   > and had itself quite the feast leaving me with mostly plant   
   > stumps.   
   >   
   > this spring i'm going to rototill a trench right next to the   
   > fence all the way around a foot deep and as wide as the tiller   
   > tines, about 2 feet, and bury galvanized expanded metal   
   > vertically and horizontally along the fence in the trench.   
   > which reminds me. i need to source the expanded metal and get   
   > my oxy-acetylene tanks filled. welding for gardening? would that   
   > make it heavy metal gardening? :P   
   >   
      
      Chicken wire . I use a 24" wide 1" chicken wire with the bottom 6"   
   folded to the outside . I have a steel wire supporting the top with 3   
   strands of electrified wire above that . The bottom electric wire is   
   just an inch or two above the top of the chicken wire so small critters   
   can't just crawl over it . This has stopped everything but armadillos   
   including the local bears . 'Dillos just bull thru , they're like tanks   
   . The only 2 things I've found that will stop them is a bullet or my dog   
   . If Max (75 pound Mountain Cur) gets a hold of one it's crunch city .   
   --   
   Snag   
   We live in a time where intelligent people   
   are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)