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23 sage plants went into the ground. I planted them 1' apart within the rows. They sure look tiny.
Sage is considered a tender perennial in my area. That means that it will survive in a protected garden in town three-out-of-four winters and maybe survive one-in-five winters out here in the windier and more exposed countryside.
Blue Racers
I MIGHT have a Blue Racer snake on the property.
I have not seen it but I heard it going through the dried leaves a couple of times.
It is gone so quickly that I cannot home in on him. I either have a Blue Racer or the world's fastest Ribbon Snake.
Zero-turn mowers are probably a snake's (and turtle's) greatest enemy. They cannot outrun them and most commercial mowers use "high lift" blades. Another issue with encroaching civilization is that the rock-piles that were in the corner of every 40 acre field were raided for landscaping rock. Many species of snakes over-winter in rock-piles.
Cows in a pasture and push mowers are much more snake-friendly.
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I am not in the majority in the household with respect to wanting more sneks around the place. Sneks like Blue Racers, Rat Sneks and big Milk Sneks eat mice and chipmunks that are alternate hosts to ticks.
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You first, baby-cakes
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Lead by example. No use of personal cars to commute to government jobs unless there are at least four-per-vehicle.
Thermostat set at 37F in the winter and no AC in the summer.
And while you are at it, you should be working three shifts to spread out the embodied energy in the facilities. And everybody should rotate to get an equal amount of first shift, second shift and midnight shift. Equality!!!
No out-of-season foods or foods from other continents. Turnips and taters for you.
I will allow our betters at the BBC one vacation per life-time. I propose a train-ride on the Orient Express to the sunny beaches and palm-trees of Beirut
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So I have been deploying an anti-tick product from Thermocell. It is camo covered tp sized paper tubes stuffed with cotton that is soaked in a chemical the sterilizes ticks breaking the reproductive cycle. The rodents use the cotton in their nests exposing the seed ticks as we call them. Results come after two cycles May and September in two consecutive years where you toss these tubes out one per 100 square feet of yard. I place them in hedges, next to wood piles or fallen trees or piles of fallen trees. Under a deck. Behind a shed. I don't put them in the required density in the middle of the yard. We seem to be finding fewer and fewer ticks. Deer regularly visit out yards. Mine, Moms and the office. I think it is working and recommend it. Roger
ReplyDeleteERJ, I saw that headline from the BBC. The government and quasi government organizations can lead by demonstration first, work out the bugs, and get back to the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteOne reads of what a hot, dreary nightmare Washington D.C. was prior to invention of climate control. If nothing else, perhaps this would clear Congress out sooner and let them do less harm.
Turnips AND Taters?
ReplyDeleteYou're TOO generous, Joe