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Date Posted: Sun, November 21 2021, 22:21:36
Author: JamesG
Subject: QOTD for Mon, Nov 22nd, 2021

The following quote is from "The Outlandish Companion (Vol #1)" by Diana Gabaldon "Botanical Medicine: Don't Try This At Home...Of Gophers And Gardens" copyright © 1999 by Diana Gabaldon all rights reserved


The only means I found of peaceful coexistence with the gophers was bribery. If I made a peanut-butter-and-molasses sandwich (on whole-wheat bread; God forbid the gophers should suffer from a lack of dietary fiber) every night, and went and hurled this into the middle of the garden, my plants remained largely untouched. If I forgot the nightly sandwich... Whoops! There goes another pelargonium.

Fortunately, my husband (dear man) built me a gopherproof garden enclosure as a birthday present a few years ago, so the gophers have been reduced to gnawing on the plastic fittings of the irrigation system for their dietary fiber. Now all I have to worry about is dogs with a lust for ripe tomatoes, ants with a passion for my ruby-pearl grapes, and snakes looking for a shady spot to sleep.

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[> I would love a gopher and deer proof garden. I gave up. -- kgp, Mon, November 22 2021, 8:26:34

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[> [> The never ending problems of gardeners -- LadyDuBois, Mon, November 22 2021, 9:36:42

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[> I never thought about feeding them to keep them off the garden! I just use gallons of repel - but miss one night - they’ve had a feast, -- Kathy in PA, Tue, November 23 2021, 5:24:33

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