How does your garden grow?

I had images of Glenn with a gun myself.  I thought damn he's been Americanized quickly!   

How close is your nearest body of water?  If you are fairly far away and also in a neighborhood you shouldn't have too much trouble with ground hogs.  They are destructive little beasts if you get one though.  Whatever you do don't buy all those pepper sprays because they don't work.  I'm afraid our only groundhog control wound up being a gun.  That said dad has opted for a less violent method this year and gone for an electric fence. 

Seeing how it's in your backyard though and near the boys I wouldn't recommend that.  Bunnies are a bit easier because you can buy rabbit fence at Lowe's or Home Depot that does the trick.  It's pretty easy to install... you just hammer in the poles and stretch the wire. 

I'd wait and see though because you don't know if you will have them.   

I hope you are right. But our local squirrels have already eaten through our plastic trash can and dug up Mom's pansies! I like the birdseed idea though.

Are you sure that's entirely down to squirrels and not (partially) raccoons?

Bunnies its a funny one - if they're just surface wise the rabbit fence sounds worth a shot.  Unfortunately if they're tunnelling into your garden that's another can of worms.  My Grandfather & Great Uncle used to have issue with this when they were still alive and with their gardens.  My grandfather used to shoot squirrels and rabbits (until a neighbor reported him, as they lived in a suburb).     (Why he thought it was a good idea..?  )

I have rosemary, curly leaf parsley, mint, and Greek basil growing inside.  Outside I stick mostly to flowers.  I'd love to grow fruit and vegetables, but that requires a lot more time spent digging around out there, and I'm a wimp.  Not about the actual gardening; about the gardening pests. We have slugs galore, and I can't stand the sight of them.  They sometimes get into our kitchen, and I share Mrs. Robinson's pain.  I stepped on one with a bare foot once.  I remember saying to Mr. Candice, "Huh, that is strange.  I don't remember cooking with any mushrooms recently.  Wonder how that got on the fl--OH GOD.  SLUG!  Get it off get it off!"

It was not pretty.

We also found a huge dead rat out there once.  Eurgh.  I love to garden, and I don't mind little things like worms (which aren't actually pests, of course, but never mind), but hoo boy.  Put slugs and rats into the equation and I chicken out.  I have a beer trap for the slugs out there now, and Mr. Candice is the one who empties it.  I still see the little buggers everywhere, though.  Grr.

I got it into my head that ordering 180 lavender plants would be a good idea this year.  They're resistant to slug attacks and very low maintenance.  Plus, they were on sale!  They haven't arrived yet, but when they do I am going to have to spend some time planting them.  I will have the salt on standby for any sluggies who dare to cross my path.

I got it into my head that ordering 180 lavender plants would be a good idea this year.  They're resistant to slug attacks and very low maintenance.

180 lavender plants!    Wow - you must have an enormous garden!  You realise that within a year, the single teensiest lavender plant can grow enormous & literally take over a huge patch of garden.

I'm the slug slayer in our house/garden, because DH is the one weirded out by sluggy - wormy kind of things.  I'm freaked out by everything else.  Even so, stepping on that nasty slug really grossed me out.

Are you sure that's entirely down to squirrels and not (partially) raccoons?

Yep. Seen 'em in action. But in our defense, it isn't the most robust plastic. We need a better one.

Not sure if the bunnies are tunneling. I've seena few holes but they seem a bit small for bunnies. With any luck, we'll get the veg in this weekend and then the fun will begin!

180 lavender plants!    Wow - you must have an enormous garden!  You realise that within a year, the single teensiest lavender plant can grow enormous & literally take over a huge patch of garden.

Whoops, that's a typo!  It should be 80, not 180.  Still, I don't have a huge garden.     It's pretty average-sized for the UK.  I have a border along my drive in front that is fairly empty that is going to receive a lot of them.  I was only going to get 20 or so, because I know how big they get.  Then I saw that 60 of them was just a few quid more, and they would throw 20 more in for free.  I have really bad sales resistance, apparently... 

I've got tons of flowers planted in containers all over the garden.  Got about 10 different types of herbs planted in pots.  Have tomatoes, lettuces, mustard, rocket, in the mini poly-tunnel growing from seeds, all in containers or grow bags. Will get some strawberries and some other veg after my house guests leave.  Although I do have an actual garden area, I'm growing everything in containers and bags so that I can easily move everything to J's house when my lease is finally up in July and I can move in with him. 

Had a HUGE snail in my herbs the other day and it was vile.  Definitely tons of slugs out there! Blech. Have to constantly go and pull them off. 

FYI Morrisons has an amazing deal on bedding plants at the moment, 3 trays for £3, they had primroses, marigolds, geraniums, busy lizzies. I bought a bunch, they were well picked over by the time I finished food shopping.

Yep. Seen 'em in action. But in our defense, it isn't the most robust plastic. We need a better one.

Not sure if the bunnies are tunneling. I've seena few holes but they seem a bit small for bunnies. With any luck, we'll get the veg in this weekend and then the fun will begin!

We've got two cages that trap rabbits/squirrels, and then we take the cages down to the river and set them free. Unless the dog gets to them first. 

If you want to know more about these cages, I'll ask DH for details. They seem to work really well.

We seem to have a bumper crop of slugs this week and what's worse, they seem to have been making their way into the house.  We think we found how they're getting in - a wee gap at the bottom of the front door frame, and we have jiggered something to plug that up.  Fingers crossed.  I stepped on one as I walked down the stairs this morning.

Sorry Mrs. R. I've had that experience while camping, barefoot of course.  Nowhere has slugs quite like they make 'em in the Pacific Northwest.  It's a traumatic experience

We're growing corn, sugar snap peas, sweetpeas, sunflowers, asparagus, basil, thyme, rosemary, sage, butternut squash, tomatillos, tomatoes, green onions, spinach, lavender, delphiniums, nemesia, cilantro, pansies, violas, and california poppies.