Anupo Lich

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Agapanthus africanus is the favorite of my deer population. I long ago stopped trying to plant this lovely tough drought resistant plant in my front yard. They were always nibbled to the ground and valiantly come up again in the spring. I now use them as a warning system on the perimeter of my vegetable gardens. They are the very first thing deer in my area will eat, leaves and flowers. Agapanthus are very tough. I can say inadvertently, I have tested, sometimes over years the minimal water idea - even in pots. What I've been thinking about recently is planting some along the ancient deer path leaving some protected in a wire frame until after they bloom then letting our friends chow down since that is about the time they are needing new food sources. I'm also zone 8. Northern California
8 years ago
I also live in a forested slug, snail paradise so I understand.

The one solution I've not heard is chickens before you plant. Pasture raised chickens LOVE slugs. Bless their little predatory hearts. Run a small flock through in a mobile coop, give them a good ten days then plant right after with cardboard and wood chips around greenhouse grown starts. Check out Justin Rhodes homestead on You Tube to see how wonderfully it works.

1) the slugs and snails are gone for now and reduced for the season for sure.
2) the cardboard and chips keep in the moisture and
3) the starts have a big head start on any thing that wants to eat them. And because you start your growing season early you have a higher income at the farmers market with less competition.


As far as rodents go, across the board they have been taken care of on my one acre by three active mousing cats. They started cleaning out the neighbors until they got dogs and thus developed rat problems.

So just let those feathery predators do the work for you!
8 years ago
Oh I know this pain. My sympathies.

The most awesome way I have found to treat this kind of pain or any of my injuries or swelling etc. is with earthing or grounding. As we speak I have a patch stuck to my knee. I injured it recently tromping through a deluge of rain in heavy boots where I failed to keep my footing on the mud and rocks. https://www.earthing.com/active-recovery/patches.html?___SID=U The earthing patches are the most inexpensive way to go I think. You can use them over and over. When they don't stick anymore just tape them on. I have a sheet too so I wrap my recently injured part in that also.

Last year I had a log roll out of my wood stove and as I jumped out of the way I leaned a hand heavily on the 400 degree door. Smelling singed flesh I continued to the freezer to grab a round can of frozen juice. About 20 minutes later I opened my hand and could see huge blisters on red flesh. I then took an earthing sheet, plugged it into the ground of my electrical out let, and wrapped it around my hand and the still cold juice can. Ten minute later I unwrapped my hand and the blisters were gone!! Since I could feel them coming back without contact with the grounding sheet I wrapped it up again. I did that few more times then stuck the juice back in the freezer and cut a bit of aloe for good measure and slathered it on my hand and put the sheet back on my bed. So within an hour except for a slight tenderness it was as though it never happened. Pretty amazing! Who'd a thought, connect with mother earth and she will literally heal me.

Of course you could do like a guy in Alaska and scrape the snow and ice off the ground and lie directly on the earth. That's free. The patches are more comfortable I think.

There is also a lovely homeopathic ointment called Inflamyar by BioResource Inc. Cotati, CA, that works nicely and even better with earthing.
9 years ago
If anyone would like to take my place at the Holzer intensive starting May10, 2014 in Whitehall Montana now's your chance for a big discount in the price. Please contact me at delicatebalance@juno.com
10 years ago