Posted: 6/29/2007 3:57:10 AM EDT
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( Rant on )Yesterday I am working in the garden, picking tomatoes and checking out the carrots which are past their prime now. Head over to check out the peppers, well the green bells are looking good , been picking them all along. Next to the pimentoes, I could swear there were more red ones,hmmm how are the yellow bells doing WWTFFFFFF, where are the yellow bells the SOB's are gone. I have been waiting on them to turn all the way yellow for about three weeks now and some worethless excretement of wasted carbon has nabbed them. The sumbitches are 2 for a dollar at Fiesta, why did the bastages have to take mine? So I go examine the pimentoes and you can see all the stubs where they have been picking them green. I wanted them to get good and red before I picked them. Thats when I remember that a week ago one of the tomato bushes which was loaded had mysteriously been noticibly lighter. I can't figure what to do, 1 get claymores 2 get a game cam or in the arfcom tradition get both. I have given everyone around me plenty of maters and onions this year along with green peppers, none have to pick there own out of my garden, I have given freely of the crop, well over 150 maters alone. Dammit to hell is nothing on this rock sacred, not even a mans garden.( Rant off.) |
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I have a hip roof on the garage, so I only have 9 foot or so. There are no other good places to mount the cam except on a centerpoint pole on the property line quite a distance from the garden. I have been wanting to get a game cam for the deer lease so myabe this is the excuse to get it. I have to figure away to hide it on the side of a garage otherwise it is just a deterent and the pepper thief will not be caught. I think I will head to academy and check them out tonight. Claymores would probably destroy the neighbors garage anyway, so there not a good idea. |
That is the deal and I get a lot of enjoyment out of giving stuff out of the garden to the neighbors and to friends. I just was waiting on the pimentoes and yellow bells to ripen properly before pulling them. |
yep gotta keep the deer out 
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The trap was set to catch the rabbit that you suspected of eating your veggies. Who would have ever thought it would catch a human???? 
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It works, only make sure you get a fencer that is disgustingly larger than you need. Something on the order of a 10 mile model. And make sure the ground wire is grounded disgustingly well. |
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I would suggest some DCon in some peppers, but the thief might be selling them to others. Put up a scarecrow and hide your camera in it. You can move the scarecrow around in the garden as needed. Shouldn't be suspected by the thief. Me, I'd get some mosquito netting and a baseball bat and camp out. 
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Now we are talking, this is a great idea. A scarecrow I can build one like that voodoo shrunken skull in (live or let die). I have thought of a camera system around the whole house and that may happen one day but the deer cam would work real good for right now. The only problem I could forsee is the thieving of the scarecrow if they discover that it is cam. I can probably set the post extra deep and lag the camera to the pole. This is a great idea callgood, thank you. |
Good point! Wife just got into the whole veggie gardening deal... I mean she is REALLY into it... we have peppers, tomatoes, carrots, basil, peas, green beans. |
Yes I will have to disable the flash . I don't know much about game cams but some are ir and don't have to have a flash.I need a good hicap digital model. Of course I figure this is happening during the day when I am not there. The person that I suspect is in the area from about 9 am till 1 pm. working for one of the neighbors. Of course it could be the good neighbor, he gives me beer every evening whether I need one or not. or his liberal wife who think Ronald Reagan was the worst president in history. She doesn't even like her cat to kill birds and can't eat fish because she thinks she came from the sea Figure that one out for me!I don't talk about illegals anymore that got my ass in hot water and locked, almost banned, I am much more sensitive to others point of view, now thanks to the error of my ways. On another note this gardening is addictive. plus good exercise getting all the weeds out, the way it has been raining here I am growin a pretty good crop of weeds in the garlic part of the garden. Hope the peppers dont play out before I get the game cam and scarecrow finished. |
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pimentoes go in pimento cheese sandwiches too, what I use them for mostly is color in food. I like pimento in my blackeyed peas with onion garlic and bacon. Any kind of gumbo or peppersteak is livened up with that red color, just a little bit helps with the overall presentation of the dish. The yellow bell and red and orange bells are nice and sweet and a lot of times I just slice them up in strips and serve them on the side of the plate to munch on. You can add fresh slice tomatoes and colored peppers on any plate any time. Just throw a tomato into a bowl of ice water while you are preparing dinner and slice that baby up when you throw the meal on the table ice cold like I like my beer. |
Chupacabra.
| Put a post it note on all the veggies at night say something about if you are reading this I have you in my cross hairs ya thieving bastard. Put down the veggies & leave & I may not pull the trigger on you. OR, stretch fish line around your garden at night about 1 foot off the ground & after having tied fish hooks onto the line about every foot or so. |
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We had problems with our garden this year... We had loads of strawberies and all of a sudden they were all gone... Well, I started shooting groundhogs in the back yard and I managed to get seven groundhogs... but the berries kept disapearing. Well, I hired my daughter to keep an eye on the berries to see what it was and it ends up it was birds! I am still happy to be done with the groundhogs as they love tomatoes and they would have picked them clean as soon as they started getting ripe. As for your peppers... 
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I am glad we don't have any grooundhogs here. If it was la chupacabra I would shoot that crafty little baswser with my p3at which is always on me in case varmitcong show up in the garden. I guess I could get on the roof of the garage with my bow and stake a goat in the back yard with bell peppers tied around its neck and see what came out at night. This is a very residential area, however I have seen fox in the neighborhood as well as heard coyotes in the close proximity. Of course the usual raccoons and possums, and bunnyfoofoos are abundant as well. Staking a young goat in the back yard with bellpepprer around its neck would probably entice the neighbors to come over anyway because they would think I was fixxing on cooking up some cabrito. There is quite a market for young goats in our area now between the dudes from the middle east that have immigrated and my buddies from the south that have come to our great country for a better way of life 
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