Coffee with Moe - Let it Grow!
Grab a cuppa and take 5 while you sip, flip and let your mind grow full of ideas on gardening, sustainability, and more.
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Mr Jack<br />
Many moons ago, I had a very hungry Jack Rabb<strong>it</strong> who thought<br />
my yard was the local supermarket. Day after day I watched him<br />
eat and eat all of the ripening poppyseed heads until not a single<br />
seed head remained for re-seeding the following spring.<br />
While I understood that this fuzzy fellow needed to eat, and<br />
that his ancestors probably grazed freely where my house now<br />
stood, I still needed a plan. A plan that would make us both<br />
happy. So, the following spring, I not only bought more poppy<br />
seeds, but I also bought a bunch of delicious looking lettuce for<br />
Mr Jack.<br />
Off I went at planting time, making sure that patches of lettuce<br />
were obscuring my poppy patch from view. As the spring days<br />
grew longer, the lettuce grew beautifully lush. I was sure my<br />
poppies were saved until that fateful morning when I opened my<br />
bathroom window to see, Mr Jack, pol<strong>it</strong>ely poised on a lovely<br />
cool pillow of lettuce. In his hands and fattening cheek, a<br />
decidedly more delicious poppy seed head.<br />
Mr Jack taught me a few very cr<strong>it</strong>ical lesson that summer:<br />
• Be sure to plant him a sacraficial menu that is more appealing<br />
than what I want to save.<br />
• Create protective and mutually beneficial barriers<br />
• or simply plant a more abundant swath of my favour<strong>it</strong>es.<br />
These 3 measures have helped my relationship <strong>w<strong>it</strong>h</strong> Mr Jack<br />
tremendously.<br />
How did I manage to appease Mr Jack? I chose to plant a delicious<br />
thicket of wild roses over and around his entrance to my<br />
garden. While he loves the rose-hips <strong>w<strong>it</strong>h</strong> as much vigour as the<br />
poppies, he’s actually giving my rose bushes a handy l<strong>it</strong>tle<br />
pruning, while saving me from the prickly potential of having to<br />
weed new seedlings.<br />
Now that’s what I call living in harmony!<br />
Rabb<strong>it</strong> Resistant Plants<br />
• Lantana<br />
• Pot Marigold<br />
• Snapdragons<br />
• Wax Begonias<br />
• Geraniums<br />
• Vinca<br />
• Salvia<br />
• Sunflowers<br />
• Milk Weed<br />
• Globe Thistle<br />
• Sweet Alyssum<br />
• Catmint<br />
• Wormwood<br />
• Shirley Poppies<br />
• Strawflower<br />
• Floss Flower<br />
• Peppers<br />
• Tomatoes<br />
• Artichokes<br />
• Asperagus<br />
• Onions<br />
• Squash<br />
• Potatoes<br />
• Cucumber<br />
• Corn<br />
• Garlic<br />
• Leeks<br />
• Rhubarb<br />
• Gooseberries<br />
• Many herbs...
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