The Sunflower Update

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Clarissa

May 18, 2015

I swear to God, all I wanted to do was plant a few peaceful sunflowers and get on with my life. Little did I know, however, that in what concerns gardening, everything turns into a bother and a half.

Rabbits have taken to visiting my sunflowers and chewing on them. There is plenty of good, juicy grass, yet they fixate on the sunflowers. I even left some carrots for the rabbits but do they care? No, they just want to eat the sunflower stalks.

So I’ve had to put up a fence. And tomorrow I will be adding a layer of topsoil because the clay – like soil looks ugly. Plus, I will reseed the bald line you can see on the photo. We laid some tubing there, and now the grass isn’t growing over it.

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15 responses to “The Sunflower Update”

cliff arroyo

May 19, 2015

“So I’ve had to put up a fence”

It’s a good thing that rabbits can’t jump.

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1. Clarissa
  
  May 19, 2015
  
  Are you suggesting they can jump??? Woe be onto me!
  
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Stille (@aperfectbalance)

May 19, 2015

Yeah, that fence there won’t do much against sunflower-loving rabbits. http://homeguides.sfgate.com/protect-sunflowers-rabbits-65543.html is a good guide by the looks of it

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cliff arroyo

May 19, 2015

“Apply fox urine around the perimeter of your garden”

Since capturing a fox and holding it up over the grass until it needs to pee, I understand this sentence as meaning that fox urine is a commercial product, which means there are people who can proudly say: “My job is collecting fox urine!”

Some people have all the luck.

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1. Stille (@aperfectbalance)
  
  May 19, 2015
  
  They just get it from zoos it seems http://www.predatorpee.com/predatorpee-collection.htm
  
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2. Jones
  
  May 19, 2015
  
  I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a “Dirty Jobs” episode with this … 🙂
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    May 19, 2015
    
    This is totally a reality show waiting to happen. 🙂
    
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3. Pen
  
  May 19, 2015
  
  My uncle would say “plant brussel sprouts,” since he is convinced that foxes pee on them.
  
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4. Clarissa
  
  May 19, 2015
  
  We do have a fox living in the area but I’m not sure I’m ready to run around after it and trying to coax it to pee in my backyard.
  
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Jones

May 19, 2015

Plant mint around your patch of sunflowers and let the cats do the work …

Alternately, adopt a moggy and let slip the cats of war. 🙂

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill

It’s the “abandon all hope ye who enter” part that probably fits this situation best. 🙂

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1. Pen
  
  May 19, 2015
  
  Yes, but then you have to deal with the dead rabbits. Housecats will kill it and leave it, because they already have a reliable food source elsewhere. I had to deal with a poor dead rabbit this week (already injured, then cornered and injured further by its escape attempts and paralyzed) that was eviscerated by a neighborhood cat. It was awful, and in the summer it starts to smell in a matter of hours.
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    May 19, 2015
    
    Ok, this is a really horrible prospect. But I’m learning a lot here. I had no idea cats killed rabbits.
    
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    1. Pen
      
      May 19, 2015
      
      I don’t know if they kill them regularly, but domesticated cats will often kill for fun. This particular one couldn’t move, which made it an easy target. 😦 It was sad. I played taps on the piano for it.
      
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      1. Clarissa
        
        May 19, 2015
        
        This is really sad. And must be horribly unpleasant for you to see. 😦
        
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Jones

May 20, 2015

Ah, I almost forgot …

[puts in my monocle]

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A SUCCESSFUL ESCAPE FROM STALAG SUNFLOWER

🙂

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