Greg Burrell 🚲🐟🥔🇨🇦

I thought that building a chicken wire screen over my vegetable garden would keep the neighbourhood cats from using it as a litter box (and digging up my seedlings in their shitty process).

Laid the screen (using fine plastic chicken wire, no stuck/cut paws) out over the garden and fixed with plastic pegs.

Not good enough, one end is all rolled up this morning, and I have to re-plant my radishes.

This would be roughly 7 chirps on birdsite. I'd be angrier too for some reason.

#urbanfarming

Apr 24, 2017 at 12:07pmWeb
Show threadGreg Burrell 🚲🐟🥔🇨🇦Apr 24, 2017

Also, what is it with cats and digging up seedlings? There's about 50 sq. ft. of freshly tilled garden with nothing at all planted that they just leave alone, but they found my radishes and pooped all over them.

And no, it's not good fertilizer.

#urbanfarming #urbancats

Show threadneville park ❎Apr 24, 2017
@ivanvector what if you lure them away by adding a pot of catnip or something
Show threadGreg Burrell 🚲🐟🥔🇨🇦Apr 24, 2017
@nev See I was worried that would just attract them to the yard. But it's not an awful idea, they're obviously in the yard anyway. I know the local seed supplier I use has several types of catnip seed, I could just throw some by the fence in the back.
Show threadBen ZaninApr 24, 2017
@ivanvector for some reason my mastodon experience so far has been heavily tilted towards gardening, cat pictures, some baking, and a little programming. I'm really enjoying it. Thanks for writing this! Sorry to hear about the annoyance, though.
Show threadGreg Burrell 🚲🐟🥔🇨🇦Apr 24, 2017

@gnomon That one toot was basically all of the blog posts I was going to write last year but never got around to it.

I haven't been using this a whole lot but my experience has also mostly been exchanges about home ec-type stuff, like gardening and cooking. Which has been great.

It's basically what Twitter was before #TOpoli and then wave after wave after wave of trolls and Nazis and Nazi trolls.