With the passing of wee Elsa, the one Blue Swedish I now have but 9 ducklings. Five are Pekin, 2 Rouen and 2 Khaki Campbell. Yesterday I found some old 2 x 4's that I'd tossed aside to burn as they were too full of nails for me to bother with pulling nails and trying to salvage. I took my pickax and semi leveled the ground inside the fence and laid these on the ground and covered them with a couple sacks of topsoil.
Last night I recalled that mothballs are said to be a grand deterrent for most unwanted pests and other critters and when my neighbor's dog dug up an apple tree I'd planted a good dose of ground red pepper kept his nose away from it when I replanted!
When I was moving into my home the privacy fence in place was a total wreck so my Mom hooked me up with a company who had done work for her in the past. They wanted an extra $500 to take down the old fence so I decided to save the bucks and do it myself. Keep in mind I weigh less than 140 pounds on most days. I not only kicked or sledge hammered out all the slats and 2 x 4 beams but actually broke most of the 4 x 4 posts. When the guys came to do my new fence we agreed to bring the fence line in about a foot so that's more than ample room for my skinny self to go between my and my next door neighbor's fence and access the back side of my back fence. My neighbors there have about 6 feet (including the foot that belongs to me) that's a jungle of overgrown hedge, shrubbery, wisteria & assorted weeds and briars. I almost never have seen them out in their back yard so I'm certain they didn't see me in my black work britches and camo shirt I usually wear as I dumped a 1 pound box of mothballs and 3 jars (2.25 oz each) of ground red pepper along the fence line.
Should the stench of mothballs not deter any varmints I'm sure a snot locker full of ground red pepper will send them packing.
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