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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #675 on: November 23, 2013, 06:44:47 pm »
I have never heard of a mouse eating such things.  Maybe our country mice like other stuff like wheat and chook food.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #676 on: November 23, 2013, 08:09:59 pm »
Never heard of mice eating those things either, could it be a possum?

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« Reply #677 on: November 23, 2013, 09:18:24 pm »
I've never seen a possum here in ten years :/ hmm

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #678 on: November 23, 2013, 09:34:01 pm »
We have most of our veg in a caged veg patch because of possums. Grrr.  But planted a rhubarb plant in one of the half barrels we have and they ate all the leaves!!!!! I thought the leaves would make them sick.  The rhubarb stalks were left standing bare and of course withered up.
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Re: Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #679 on: November 24, 2013, 12:35:33 am »

Chewed the stalks on the sweet chilli. Left the basil and rosemary.


Had a go at the parsley.


Ate the sweet chilli and celery.

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #680 on: November 24, 2013, 12:55:15 am »
A grub?

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« Reply #681 on: November 24, 2013, 02:55:48 am »
Sounds like slugs or snails to me. Try sprinkling eggs shells around that have been crushed up in the TM. Works a treat not on caterpillars though. Three or four eggs shells and one cup of water blitzed for about 5 seceonds on speed 5. Not too fine just in little bits.
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« Reply #682 on: November 24, 2013, 04:28:01 am »
Will have to try the egg mix lucyluu. Was also considering making up a garlic and chilli water spray.

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« Reply #683 on: November 24, 2013, 08:17:55 am »
I will have to try the egg mix too  :)

Well instead of our wicking beds taking one weekend, I think they will take two :/

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« Reply #684 on: November 25, 2013, 05:53:09 am »
I have this amazing tomato plant. It was really tiny when I planted it and left to fend for itself because I haven't had time to tend to it and it has probably 60 tomatoes on it. I had to cover it up to protect it from the birds. It's the best plant I've ever had.  :D

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Re: Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?
« Reply #685 on: November 25, 2013, 08:34:04 am »
Good one Michele, that's the sort of garden I'd like  :D  Nice to see you popping in to post  :-* :-*
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« Reply #686 on: November 25, 2013, 12:12:51 pm »
Our kitchen verandah garden is coming along nicely. DH set some mouse traps tonight. Whatever is eating our celery also got away with the mouse trap loot last night. So we try again. Beautiful tomatoes mcmich. We need to get up to our community garden to pick our capsicums!

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« Reply #687 on: November 26, 2013, 09:44:40 am »
That's sneaky INAID!

Our first two wicking beds are well under way with all the tricky parts done :)
I was super happy last night when we checked that it was all water tight and the water level stayed the same over night :)
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« Reply #688 on: November 27, 2013, 10:41:11 pm »
still picking cucumbers, zucchini, and bok choy daily from our garden..
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« Reply #689 on: December 16, 2013, 07:52:51 am »
The fruit of my neglected plant.  ;D

I'm getting about this amount of tomatoes every other day. Will take them into work.