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First squash harvest at Ground Squirrel Gardens!

The Horse @TheHorse (238310) • Walnut Creek, California 28 Aug 16

One of my kid clients and I actually harvested a squash at Ground Squirrel Gardens last week. The vicious herbivores had gnawed at parts of our biggest squash plant, but it survived, and is now yielding some little squashes. I...

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Ground Squirrel Gardens Update

The Horse @TheHorse (238310) • Walnut Creek, California 10 May 16

Well, It's May 10, and I just got back from work. It's warm and dry here today, with lots of sun, so I watered the garden there twice. As you probably remember, last Summer, the ground squirrels devoured our entire garden,...

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My balcony sunflowers are pouting

The Horse @TheHorse (238310) • Walnut Creek, California 27 Apr 16

I had watered these guys the day before, and when I went outside to greet my balcony plants yesterday morning, my two big sunflowers were looking all droopy and depressed. I think I heard them ask why they had to live in a pot,...

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Snowed in? Or snow peas?

The Horse @TheHorse (238310) • Walnut Creek, California 23 Jan 16

If you know me, you know I'm a little bit snow-pea-obsessed right now. The ones on my balcony are doing great. The ones at the preschool in Berkeley are about 6" high. The ones at my one kid client's house (the same kid as the one...

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Bubblews, Rain, and Vicious Herbivores

The Horse @TheHorse (238310) • Walnut Creek, California 9 Jan 16

Those of you who knew me from "that other site" probably remember that I had an on-going battle with ground squirrels last summer. The kids I work with and I planted corn, green beans, sunflowers and squash in the early Spring, in...

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The garden on my balcony

The Horse @TheHorse (238310) • Walnut Creek, California 26 Oct 15

As everyone knows, the ground squirrels ate the real garden we planted where I work. But that didn't stop me and my kid clients from planting some crops in little cups and taking them home. Here are two of my hardy little friends....

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What motivates you to keep gardening if pests destroyed your last garden?

Barbara Radisavlejvic @bagarad (14283) • Paso Robles, California 8 Sep 11

I fought a colony or two of ground squirrels last year who destroyed almost everything I grew and I watched helplessly as each day I would find another tomato plant cut down at ground level. It seemed like senseless destruction,...

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