Friday, June 4, 2010

Keepin' Em Out!

Deep down inside of me, I'm a farmer. It must be my familial roots that dig deep into the tradition of farming back in the mid-west. Indiana, to be specific. In the last couple of years, my desire to play in the dirt and grow things has come to the surface and I have researched, experimented, had some failures, but have successfully grown things! Yummy, healthy, pretty things:) This year, we added four more raised beds to our garden area bringing the total to eight 4' x 8' beds. I love it!

What I don't love is garden pests. We live in town so we don't deal with deer or other small wild animals. My nemesis, the scourge of my success are the neighborhood cats. Yes, I'm sure that they are cute and cuddly and are wonderful...but I get blood in my eye when I see their furry little bodies creeping around my garden. They dig up my seeds and young plants, they poop all over and now lately, I've had one cat vomiting in my beds! Enough is enough I shouted!!

So we purchased some of this...


To save these...


Used some of these...


To make this...


Ha! Take that you cute, furry, evil ones!

1 comment:

Jolina said...

I will pray they stay out of your garden.. nothing like dealing with other peoples pets!! I am about to bring out the big guns with the dogs in our area!! it will not be pretty! well it will be pretty funny to me.. but not to them! :)~