Many homeschoolers garden...especially this year...so, here are some interesting garden facts from my latest installment of The Old Farmer's Almanac newsletter...
Combating Critters
Do you have any critters in your garden—rabbits, moles, slugs? Here is some advice to help:
• To keep rabbits out of your garden, surround it with fencing at least 3 feet high and 8 inches below the surface.
• Plant rue to keep cats out of your garden.
• To see a mole “run out, astonished” (according to 16th-century herbalist John Gerard), put a bulb of garlic in its hole.
• To deter deer and raccoons, tie old sneakers and clothes that smell of human perspiration to garden posts.
• Scatter garlic around your garden to deter many a pest—such as deer, woodchucks, and raccoons.
• Sprinkle ground red pepper in entrances to mole tunnels.
• If your neighbors don’t mind, play a radio at low volume.
Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< |
