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Jack wrote:
> Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them
> cut down with stumps ground 2005-6.  The trees that were cut were
> chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the
> property to serve as a reservoir of mulch.
> 
> The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if
> you heap them.  You have to regularly add filler (from mulch
> reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely.
> Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and
> ankles.
> 
> Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and
> acorns are buried there.  So they dig, removing the filler.  You
> cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so
> it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the
> mulch reservoir.
> 
> It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this
> year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees
> that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray
> squirrel.
Evidently you don't have man's best friend a dog.
If you gonna shoot them put them into the freezer. Barbecued squirrel is 
great.

On 6/27/2009 9:06 AM, Jack wrote:
> Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them
> cut down with stumps ground 2005-6.  The trees that were cut were
> chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the
> property to serve as a reservoir of mulch.
> 
> The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if
> you heap them.  You have to regularly add filler (from mulch
> reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely.
> Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and
> ankles.
> 
> Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and
> acorns are buried there.  So they dig, removing the filler.  You
> cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so
> it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the
> mulch reservoir.
> 
> It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this
> year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees
> that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray
> squirrel.

I don't kill the squirrels.  I use a cage trap and then relocate them to
a nearby state park that contains hungry coyotes, owls, and hawks.

-- 
David E. Ross
Climate:  California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at <http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary>

"Jack" <HereIAm@Home.org> wrote in message 
news:4a464394.17601734@news.eternal-september.org...
> Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them
> cut down with stumps ground 2005-6.  The trees that were cut were
> chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the
> property to serve as a reservoir of mulch.
>
> The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if
> you heap them.  You have to regularly add filler (from mulch
> reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely.
> Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and
> ankles.
>
> Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and
> acorns are buried there.  So they dig, removing the filler.  You
> cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so
> it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the
> mulch reservoir.
>
> It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this
> year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees
> that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray
> squirrel.

It's very silly counting on wood mulch to fill those rotting stump holes 
unless you don't mind the process taking as many years as it did to grow 
those trees.  You're making your own misery... get some soil hauled in... 
has nothing to do with squirrels, you old scapegoat. LOL

On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:14:00 -0400, nada <@wild.il> wrote:

>Jack wrote:
>> Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them
>> cut down with stumps ground 2005-6.  The trees that were cut were
>> chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the
>> property to serve as a reservoir of mulch.
>> 
>> The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if
>> you heap them.  You have to regularly add filler (from mulch
>> reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely.
>> Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and
>> ankles.
>> 
>> Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and
>> acorns are buried there.  So they dig, removing the filler.  You
>> cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so
>> it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the
>> mulch reservoir.
>> 
>> It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this
>> year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees
>> that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray
>> squirrel.
>Evidently you don't have man's best friend a dog.
>If you gonna shoot them put them into the freezer. Barbecued squirrel is 
>great.

There's so little meat on a gray squirrel; never understood why people
make such a fuss over them as food.

Then you gotta worry about the bird shot while chewing.  Several
acquaintances have fractured their teeth on pheasants that were killed
by shotgun.

On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:23:19 GMT, "brooklyn1"
<gravesend10@verizon.net> wrote:

>
>"Jack" <HereIAm@Home.org> wrote in message 
>news:4a464394.17601734@news.eternal-september.org...
>> Personally planted 1,000 trees during the 60s-70s, and had 300 of them
>> cut down with stumps ground 2005-6.  The trees that were cut were
>> chipped and the shavings shoveled via bulldozers but kept on the
>> property to serve as a reservoir of mulch.
>>
>> The ground stumps eventually rot and sink below ground level even if
>> you heap them.  You have to regularly add filler (from mulch
>> reservoir) until the ground shavings and roots rot completely.
>> Otherwise, you have craters that are hard on garden tractors -- and
>> ankles.
>>
>> Squirrels see these stump sites and assume that their walnuts and
>> acorns are buried there.  So they dig, removing the filler.  You
>> cannot replace the total amt. of filler they dig up by mere raking, so
>> it's necessary to haul out the cart and bring up more filler from the
>> mulch reservoir.
>>
>> It's bad enough having to fight woodchucks -- killed six so far this
>> year -- who burrow along the row of wild mulberry and cherry trees
>> that define the east side property line, now it's war with the gray
>> squirrel.
>
>It's very silly counting on wood mulch to fill those rotting stump holes 
>unless you don't mind the process taking as many years as it did to grow 
>those trees.  You're making your own misery... get some soil hauled in... 
>has nothing to do with squirrels, you old scapegoat. LOL

Quite a bit of that wood mulch has rotted down to soil.  50% or so,
I'd guess.

WhereYoBabyMomma@home.org (Jack) wrote:

>On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:14:00 -0400, nada <@wild.il> wrote:
>

-snip-
>>If you gonna shoot them put them into the freezer. Barbecued squirrel is 
>>great.
>
>There's so little meat on a gray squirrel; never understood why people
>make such a fuss over them as food.

We used to figure 4 squirrels 'meated up' a spaghetti sauce just right
for 6 people.        Maybe our greys are bigger than yours? [I've only
hunted them in NY]     The labor/meat ratio is better than for
partridge or woodcock.  

It has been a long time since I dressed one, but I'd guess a good one
went about 1-1 1/2 pounds.

>
>Then you gotta worry about the bird shot while chewing.  Several
>acquaintances have fractured their teeth on pheasants that were killed
>by shotgun.

Bad teeth or steel shot?  Lead is pretty soft.   But that's also why I
always used a .22 & head shot 'em.   

Jim