Seriously? My fall crop of bush beans are all just stalks now. I don't even want to think about my melon patch.
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| Rabbit damage to the now leafless bush beans. |
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| Rabbit damage in the melon patch. |
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| The vine this watermelon was attached to was severed by a rabbit. |
I did discover a really cool place after my root canal on Monday though! I was wandering around with my face half numb looking for the spot I had parked my car in Pittsburgh's South Side (if you've ever been there you'd understand) and I saw a giant poster with a kid or something on it and words like "sustainable" and "recycle" attached to a building that looked oddly retrofitted with green upgrades. Considering the whole area is filled with giant 100 year old brick row house buildings, I knew this had to be something neat.
I went inside and found myself in a small lobby filled with information brochures with a glass door leading to a larger lobby with no one manning it in sight. I started trying to process the brochures in an attempt to figure out where I was, when a nice lady who looked to be returning from her lunch break walked in behind me.
"Can I help you with something?"
I turned around, smiled a half-novocained smile in what I hoped was a very uncreepy manner and replied: "No I uz ust undering ut thiz place uz."
I then decided that the drool, slurred speech, and garden dirt stained clothes I wore due to an emergency tipped tomato plant right before my appointment might be giving the woman the wrong impression, so to combat that I managed to rankly overcompensate by telling her that I was looking for my car after a root canal and liked to garden and was intrigued by the posters outside all in one godawful slurred run on sentence. I'm totally sure that I came across as a nutcase.
ANYWAY it turned out to be a green building that even collects difficult-to-recycle items like CFL bulbs and batteries. I am still not completely clear about whether they are some type of outpost of the PRC (Pennsylvania Resource Council) or just a different non-profit that works with the PRC, but any place that has bags of worm poop in their lobby for a small donation is pretty cool in my book. They also give tours of the building to school kids or anyone interested in seeing how it operates!
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| It's not every day that you leave the house to get a root canal and return with a sandwich bag full of worm compost. |
So I guess things aren't too bad since the worm compost seems to have been just what my ailing eggplants needed to perk up a bit. However, if anyone out there is keeping count, this makes two baby water melons and four baby musk melons bitten off by the bunnies.
Your experience sounds surreal. The place you found sounds as out of place as a person wandering around the city with a half-Novocained smile and tomato stained clothes. Yet, there it was, worm-casting included.
ReplyDeleteI hear rabbits make great stew! Something got into our garden recently. This fall I'm going to have to build a better fence.
Surreal is a great word for it :)
ReplyDeleteDepending on what's getting in the fence might not be the solution. My dad had to build a completely enclosed chicken wire room around his garden plot in Massachusetts when I was a kid because whatever was eating his stuff would just climb his fence. Not sure what the other plot-holders thought of it.
Stew sounds like a good plan...they should be nice and meaty from my garden by the time we catch them.