Wow! What a garden!!!
Breakthru House utilizes a garden for our client for both therapeutic reasons as well as to save money on nutritious foods!
We'd like to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone who helped us with our garden:
Shanna Wood - for working weekly with the clients to research, plan, and prepare the garden plots - THANK YOU!!!
To our nurse volunteer, JoAnn Akers and The Pilot Club, along with Bob and Martha Forrest - for donating garden supplies - THANK YOU!!
To Kim Little, St. James UMC, and their FABULOUS volunteers for teaching us about composting and organic gardening, donating supplies, full-size plants and tools, and for a lot of hard work - THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!
The garden is an exciting, therapeutic, and tangibly useful project for our clients! Check out this zucchini - the clients were amazed!!
The clients are reporting some squirrel issues - they are eating our tomatoes!!! Anyone have great organic remedies for keeping squirrels and other critters away?? Leave us a comment!!
by Melanie Storrusten, LCSW, Clinical Coordinator
I have had some success with spreading hot pepper flakes around plants to keep squirrels away. It does not do any permanent harm to the squirrels although they will give you angry looks and chatter at you. You can get hot pepper flakes in the spice area at Your Dekalb Farmer's Market. The garden looks beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThe garden looks wonderful, organic produce is delightful. Yes, the pesky squirrels have way too much fun in making their daily selections. As Gail stated they hate the hot pepper flakes,I have also read that filling bird baths or having water available helps because squirrels become thirsty and eat the produce to help with thirst. Worth a try and good luck!
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