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It’s bad enough I have to battle baby woodchucks stripping my flower gardens bare.
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They’re adorable, but it’s very hard to make them stop nibbling.
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I heard shredding Irish Spring around the plants helps, so I’m all in.
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My other problem this year?
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A mouse.
Who beheaded all my lovely marigolds and dragged the blooms under our shed.
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I didn’t even have a chance to photograph the pretty alternating yellow and orange combination before all I was left with was this…
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Because as soon as the mouse ripped off all the blooms?
The chucks ate 3/4’s of the leaves.
But I fixed them.
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I planted a row of taller crown daisies and no one likes those.
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River's world..... 
Mmm – marigold salad – https://eatsmarter.com/recipes/green-salad-with-nasturtium-and-marigold-flowers
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Clearly the woodchucks have that recipe.
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That’s one hard-working mouse. Marigolds must be a real deicacy — or a very addictive drug? Are there any sounds of rock music coming from under the barn?
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Most critters don’t eat them as they’re sort of peppery.
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A fascinating battle of wit and will. 😃🐀🐿️
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And huge appetites.
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Daises brighten up any area, and if no one wants to nibble on them, that’s a win-win.
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I do love the smell of Irish Spring…
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I don’t. But I’m hoping they don’t either..
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🤣
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Except for the ruby throated daisychomper, which I just read has expanded its territory into Maine this summer.
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Nooooo!
😩
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Worst of all? This destructive pest is half-AI.
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?
I have no idea what this means.
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It means Rivergirl is doomed.
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I’m doomed.
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Lordy. You’re between a rock and a hard place. Have beautiful garden and no blog fodder or have garden-nibbling wildlife and plenty of fodder but no flowers. 😃
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At least they’re better than last year’s brood, they ate everything!
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Ha, one of my readers half-wanted my fire pit project to fail just for exciting blog fodder.
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Interesting about the soap! What happens when you water them or it rains?
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I imagine they’ll dissolve slowly and I’ll have to redo it.
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You may want a soil test. That much soap is almost certainly going to raise the Ph of your soil. Good in some places, not in others.
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With my luck it won’t work anyway. They’ll probably like the taste..
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I didn’t know mice liked the marigolds. But do they eat them or use them for mattress filling? I sure hope that Irish Sping soap works.
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I don’t know. I looked in the shed but couldn’t find any…
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Maybe the mice have an ofrenda under the barn?!?!
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Hmm..
Could be. If I start seeing brightly painted mouse skulls, we’ll know.
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Oh my sweetness. It’s a battle, and I think you will never win, but look at all the sweet critters in your yard! 😛
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Ha ha…. I caught my 2-year-old doing what your mouse did. Then, what was left became something to stomp on!
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Damn.
And you can’t trap a 2 year old…
😉
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😄😄 nope.
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Irish Spring only works against John Bull.
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That’s disappointing.
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Did the mouse want the marigolds for food or bedding? The schoolchildren that used to hang out on my steps would play “he loves me, he loves me not” with my roses until they all got iPhones. Yay?
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I have no idea what he wanted them for, I just know the little bastard stripped a dozen of them.
🥴
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I like that the Mouse and the Chucks are working together. Lol
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I don’t!
Tag team flower destroyers are the worst.
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Irish Spring has that reputation. I once put a bar beneath the hood of my car to deter mice who were chewing wires close to the engine. It actually worked. Which is a bit unnerving, as Irish Spring is my go-to soap…
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I don’t wash with it.
And now I know why…
😉
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