Seed Exchange!

[mousme]

I'm going to the seed exchange on Sunday with ai731! Whee!

The problem is that I have WAY more garden ideas than I actually have room in the garden. Uh, oops?

Part of me is squeeing and declaring "I want lettuce and carrots and tomatoes and peppers and onions and ooh! maybe I should try broccoli again, and what about chives and leeks and potatoes and of course I'll need several varieties of squash and zucchini and I wonder if cucumbers can grow in this climate and..."

The other part of me is trying desperately to put on the brakes: "Uh, yeah. Where exactly were you planning to plant all that?"

Eesh.

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Cucumbers will grow fine in our climate, and quite happily up the fence. I just never figured out how to stop the squirrels from eating them before they were ripe.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking booby-traps, Indiana Jones-style. Rolling boulders and poisoned fléchettes. :D

[chasingthenuns.livejournal.com]

i've never had squirrels eat mine, but i suppose you could try a spray of water, red pepper flakes, and garlic. that's what i do to keep bugs away. just make sure you wash the cucumbers before you eat them.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

I used liberal amounts of a water/Tobasco sauce mix on the tomatoes last year with limited success. Covering the plants with netting worked better.