Category: Rodent Control

03 Feb 2017
February 3, 2017 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden maintenance, Plant health, Rodent Control

The Beauty of the Fragrance of Human Manure In the Landscape Garden

Winter is rarely  a kind season for most of our landscape gardens and their gardeners  here in Minnesota.   Winds,  killer  evening temperatures,  crushing snow layers, sunburns on bark, deer, dogs,  and then there are the rabbits. Sixty years of rumor have told me   rabbits are hit with a vicious virus or two about every seven years which wipes out the vast majority of a settled rabbit population...,.I used to believe the rumor....until reviewing...

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05 Jan 2012
January 5, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden maintenance, random fun, Residential Projects, Rodent Control, winter landscapes

Landscape Garden Life among the Coyote

I have coyote preying on my grounds.   The resident couple have produced a pup.   We seldom see these folks, but they are there and we have quicky pictures to prove their settlement. In the thirty eight years of my residency here in suburban Minneapolis , I have been able to create and maintain a beautiful  classic landscape garden.   We live in a climate in which winter is the major landscape season, as long as all...

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19 Oct 2010
October 19, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden maintenance, garden seasons, Plant health, Pruning, Rodent Control

Autumn Duties for the Landscape Gardener

What are the regular routines for the Landscape Gardener to maintain the home grounds in the best condition going into winter? Watering:   There is much debate over what the autumn to late autumn watering schedule should be for the Twin City area landscaped grounds.  Some 'professors' profess continued regular watering until the hard frosts; others suggest withholding water gradually to assist the plants hardening off for the cold misery of winter.  Plants here usually mean...

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30 Jan 2010
January 30, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin Rodent Control

The February Minnesota Lanscape….Rabbits, Deer and Pruning

It is  now the February landscape in Minnesota ....thank God, I have often remarked, February is a short month. The big  Christmas snowfall  is still with us.  The normal January thaw was so brief it went by unnoticed.  This winter of 2009-2010 is so far a real winter, but so far without the minus 20-25 degrees F temperatures which used to be commonplace here during my childhood. In the city, rabbits are chewing up many...

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