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RE: Part 2 - the start of our food forest and no dig garden
This is awesome! it sounds like a well thought out plan. It looks like you have a lot of space and microclimates to work with.. exciting! I wonder if you thought of getting a cat for your mole problem?
Thank you! :D Its taken a while to puzzle everything together, and its far from done and we cant be to radical with changes or implementation since we only rent the land.
Yes, we have thought about a cat, both for the mole and mice we have - but we got highway 13 at the end of our driveway and there are so many dead cats on there we are afraid that any we get will end up there dead :(
Interesting that you are renting the land because I am also renting the homestead and garden space where I am now :) I feel the same about needing to hold back with radical changes! too bad about all those dead cats :( maybe a terrier if you can keep it off the road?
Its a good place to start we figured, by renting we can afford it right away and we learn a lot in the process. Though our landlords are quite traditional so it will be intresting to see what they think of our ideas and what we want to do.
Yeah it makes me so sad, all the dead kitties. Hm yeah, a terrier would perhaps work but I think we will try traps. We got two dogs, dont got time for a 3rd now with a baby on the way in 2 months. Theoretically our big dog is a guardian dog (half great pyrenees) that should be able to guard the land, but but he is such a wuss haha he doesnt like to be outside for too long =P
Your dog looks very comfortable! Probably too big to be chasing gophers anyway :) Good luck with the traps! I found the trick is to keep up with them every day, the longer you let it slide the faster the gopher population gets out of hand. But with those big fields next to you it might be a challenge to keep up with them.. i wish you luck.