Gardening at night in the dark?

[897tgigvib]

The older I get the more who knows what time I'll wake up.

Woke up this morning at 2:07 am. Hayley in Australia was eating dinner on the couch finishing watching tv getting ready to go to bed. So here I sat at the computer.

My cats have 2 litter boxes. Actually, one is an iron tray for Clevland to pee on. Why is another story. Short version is, he and I had quite the time finishing his training at being an in the house kitty. He had a pee pee in the box thing he never wanted to do, and that was why he was trained to be a gophergitter besides his love for attacking furtively moving things...so Clev and I came to the agreement that if he's gonna miss the box, miss it where the tray is with clay litter. This compromise works well and perfectly.

One added bonus of this is that every day I have a small scoop of smelly and wet clay kitty litter that smells like boy cat pee because that's what it is.

This is my NEW PATENTED GOPHER REPELLENT!

Wallp, here I sat at 2:15 am, multitasking, reading about arp texas and arp synthesizers, and the greay rosemary that appeared, listening to enigma, chatting with hayley, and SMELLING Clev's boy cat pee fermenting.

Being the self managing ole kid I am, lol, I scopped it up, walked out in the dark before my eyes had a chance to dilate, and walked by memory only to my garden. Oh yea, even remembered not to walk into my lawn tractor. Felt for the gate with the dustpan filled with aromatic repellent, carefully walked to the last known gopher tunnel, and spread it all around and right on it.

Note to all gophers reading this: Yes dear gophers, I will make any life you plan on having in or near my garden most aromatically obnoxious for you. And yes dear gophers, this is the fermented pee pee of the very same boy cat who will bite your head off if all other measures fail.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

heh! you go get them Marshall! good luck to Clevland on his next venture through the garden!

 

[Carol Dee]

Good Heavens Marshall !!!! One just never knows what you will post! LOL.

 

[canesisters]

A good cat that will actually hunt is priceless. I had a calico once who was a great mouser (except that she always left them on the counter in front of the microwave ) but she was a terror to live with - for us and for the other cats.
My barn cat regularly brings home rabbits who are as big or bigger than he is. If only he had interest in moles and voles.....

 

[lesa]

I can't remember what show it was (Victory Garden?)... but there was a Doctor that had the most beautiful garden. However, since he worked during the daylight hours, he actually gardened in the dark- wearing a head lamp!! His garden was gorgeous in the daylight. I notice as it begins to get dark, it gets easy to make a mistake. Oops, I thought that was a weed, kind of thing....
Good luck with the pee! A friend of mine was spreading coyote urine (you can buy it!) to deter rodents. Whatever works, I say!

 

[digitS']

I've been assessing my morning to see if I can follow in this "Marshall theme" on TEG . . .

Okay, I was up at 4:25. I'm still having trouble with daylight savings time! My thumb joints are much better - Thank You. So, I cannot blame trouble sleeping on that thumb but I've gotta get to easily getting up no later than that time because I'll soon need to activate my own personal highly-official daylight savings time! It is always like this - I hate the gov'ment tampering with our clocks!

DW had an early morning phone call. A friend wanted her to help with tomato transplanting . . ! Hey, that's my province! Not that I would be amendable to such a request at 7am. "You get your mother to help with that transplanting!"

Anyway, they visited the greenhouse before driving off into the sunrise. I made sure that no one made off with any of my eggplants after they left . . . Went back to hanging my laundry on the line and found all this paper lint from someone leaving a tissue in a pocket. I hate it when that happens!

Back inside the house, where the whites are going thru their cycle, I noticed that DW had grabbed her phone and knocked the box of kleenex off the table by the north window!



digitS'

 

[thistlebloom]

Lets see...I got up before 5 to start the soaked beans cooking for tonights chili so they will be done before I have to leave.
Son #1 is driving down to work with me. Tuesdays are his only day off so that's when I get him. Nice arrangement for me, but if he's not ever dirt poor I'll lose his help :/ . We're having chili and tamales, one of his favorites.

Then I got a call from him. His Jeep won't start, not even with a jump. So bummed.

Oh! Wait, this was about gardening in the dark!.................

Well I walked through the garden to let the chickens out, and it was sorta dark. Does that count?

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

Upon waking at 4:50am, I walk down the stairs, look out the door window in the dark and what do I see? I see that my garden is now only 1/2 covered in snow. That's as close to gardening in the dark as I am getting for a while.

 

[canesisters]

Hahahahahaha
I actually DO some after dark yard work. 'Skeeters' are easier to repell than horseflies! And it's so much cooler and breezier. Any big digging project that I have to do almost always gets done after dark.

Lesa - I saw that same show! That guy's garden WAS lovely.
Thistle, sorry about your son's jeep. And, yes, I would think that taking care of your compost-makers counts very much as gardening.
SHF, I don't blame you ONE BIT! Snow, dark, 5:00am.... none of that sounds like a happy garden experience.

 

[baymule]

Marshall, along with the Neanderthal, is there maybe a little bit of ancestry from the Transylvania area in Europe?