From Our Department of Try And Kill Me:
1.Black-eyed Susans
I wasn't kidding when I said that you don't need any gardening talent at all when it comes to these things. I planted them under the kitchen window earlier this spring and then the bastard rabbits ate them down to the ground. Three times. And still they have enough will to flower. Sure, they're not those showy tall flowers, but even so, if you saw them when they were just stubs in the mud you never would have imagined they'd even have leaves again, let alone flowers. All hail
the world's best anti-rabbit device, courtesy of the dollar store.
2. Mint
In the smallest corner of the back yard, behind the steps and away from sun and shower, where the only thing that rains down is dryer lint, up springs the mint. This enjoyed a brief star turn as a potted birthday gift 5 years ago. I put the pot in the corner for the winter and somehow, it crawled out and claimed some turf for itself. Now it muscles out the weeds and comes up behind the old umbrella base, between the cinderblock cracks and around the rusty garden ornaments. It's a crop - flavor for iced tea and perfume to rub on your hands. I'm like a farmer.
You bunny-proof with pepper?
Watchit - mint's wicked ambitious! Mint wants your lawn!
Yes pepper! The horrible beasts should only turn themselves inside out sneezing from it. (Don't tell PETA) - Suzette
Posted by: Tata | August 23, 2005 at 08:59 AM
I think a "lint mint" flavoured iced tea would be just dandy. Better yet, a lint mint julep.
;)
Lint Julep! good one. - Suzette
Posted by: Lenka | August 23, 2005 at 12:17 PM
We've got mint running along the back fence. Use the mint when you make simple syrup to sweeten your tea.
Hey, your south is showing. This is NJ and we don't sweeten our tea. We like our tea the same way we like our politics - bitter and stinkin'. - Suzette
Posted by: schmed | August 23, 2005 at 12:28 PM