Jackpine Radical Gardening

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Spray animal repellant, chicken wire cages around some plants, and keep my fingers crossed.
Dogs are good protection against most four legged critters, but the garden is at my neighbors’…. and they don’t like dogs.
I’m familiar with those sensor “booby trap” sprayers. They work good on deer and nosey…[Read more]

Nothing stops the deer if they’re in your neighborhood. They seem to have developed an immunity to all the sprays, and if they’re hungry enough(which they always get that way ’cause there’s too damned many of them) they’ll eat everything except ferns and other “deer-resistant” plants.

And I can’t even shoot them. We’ve given up.

I have few problems with my garden that is enclosed by cyclone fence.

Around here the critters are such big eaters that I see suburban home owners actually constructing complete enclosures, covered with screening. I might take some pictures of them and post them. It’s really pretty amazing how far people go around here to have a garden.

I have…[Read more]

I have a deer spray that I use that is peppermint based. It also keeps groundhogs away. Spray it and it lasts about 30 days.  However this is not a good option for crops like lettuce. The best kind IMO is Deer Out. All of the deer sprays, however, are expensive, as it is $38 a bottle. This, however, will prol’ly last you the rest of your life.…[Read more]

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Hire a big dog, no joke!

You simply MUST have good headphones and your Apple I-Tunes favorites playing too!

And then you are The Lawnmower Man!!!

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Yes, I am a chicken.

Huge attendance, I lived in McLean County, lots of corn.  And beans, every other year.

American ingenuity at its best.

A cup holder comes built in to the left fender.

OK, not fun, but interesting. I like watching the old tractors, not the new ones with modified engines. Most people find the older tractors boring because they’re not really interested in tractors.

Keeps the sun from baking your brains and your neck from turning red.

One of my neighbors managed to add a cup-holder for his beer to his riding mower for the ultimate suburban mowing experience. You might want to consider that, or at least a clip to hold your joint.

When I lived in Illinois, I always left the county or state fair before those started, or else went to the other side of the fairgrounds.  I don’t know what is/was more insane – spending a wad of money on a tractor, just to blow the engine, or standing next to tractors with potentially exploding engines.  Guess I could not drink enough beer to d…[Read more]

(Of course, some of them do have beer.)

I have seen some of the videos. I would like to go to one in person. Those people have been inhaling WD-40 for too long.