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Re: 2017 Gardens
I have no suggestions to get rid of them, but I agree with others about using poison on someone else's property. I wouldn't use poison in general, but that's because I'm a softy and can't stand the thought of killing animals.
We actually had a groundhog in our garden when we first moved in, he had a little burrow under our front concrete stairs. I would have been irate if anyone tried to kill him while he was on our property (my H included). He eventually went away on his own after we filled in his burrow too many times.
But we always do tomatoes. A minimum of 8 plants, and well do the same again this year. Then beans, zucchini, basil, cilantro, and green peppers. That's as far as I've gotten.
We have 2 raised garden beds then about 15 pots I plant in. MIL offered for me to till up some of her land to do a garden if I want to, but I'm not sure if tackling that this year will be a smart idea. So I'll probably hold off until next year.
I do a ton of canning, especially with tomatoes. Make crushed tomatoes, diced tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, and salsa. We never have enough though. I'm already scrimping on my stash so it gets us through the rest of winter.
My uncle also always has a ton of cucumbers and a family friend lets me pick my own sweet corn toward the middle/end of the season. So we usually get enough to have corn the rest of the seasons and I make about 15 batches of different styled pickles that we go through.
TTC since 1/13 DX:PCOS 5/13 (long, anovulatory cycles)
Clomid 50mg 9/13 = BFP! EDD 6/7/14 M/C 5w6d Found 11/4/13
1/14 PCOS / Gluten Free Diet to hopefully regulate my system.
Chemical Pregnancy 03/14
Surprise BFP 6/14, Beta #1: 126 Beta #2: 340 Stick baby, stick! EDD 2/17/15
Riley Elaine born 2/16/15
TTC 2.0 6/15
Chemical Pregnancy 9/15
Chemical Pregnancy 6/16
BFP 9/16 EDD 6/3/17
Beta #1: 145 Beta #2: 376 Beta #3: 2,225 Beta #4: 4,548
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To begin, I'd like to get a perennial herb garden going and try our hand at pumpkins, cucumbers, beans, and corn. We want to get our fruit trees started (apple, pear, apricot, and peach) as well as raspberries and blueberries. Also, we plan to add on to an existing line of pine, which would extend our wind break. That will be pricey due to needing to buy more mature trees. It will likely be at least 12 of them - spruce, I think. And, the landscaping along the house is just ghastly and full of bright red mulch that has stinky stink horn mushrooms growing in it. That is getting ripped up and replanted with better shrubs and perennial flowers. Then we are putting down river rock instead of mulch.
Lastly, we are going to reforest the rear of our 6.6 acres with trees from the Arbor Day Foundation. With member pricing, we can get a variety of slow, medium and fast growth trees for pretty cheap. Yes, they will be tiny and will take years to grow, but we want the coverage back there and the ability for future fire wood. This year we hope to order about 70 seedlings.
It will be a back-breaking summer!!!
Plus side is, they're really happy and growing fast. Just this year there was about 6"-8" of new growth on the branches, in the pretty "blue" color (they are blue spruces but didn't come very blue looking).