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garden s" to he lp educate ou rclients and others that we canhave be autiful green spaces whileworking with nat ure. The "by-product " is better health for all.

Weeds in th e lawn ar e onechallenge but what about the

challenge of living in harmonywith critte rs? What's an ecologi-cally-minded hort iculturist todo? Deer, squirrels, bears, rac-coons, skunks, and insect s allwant a part of the land scape pie.How do we protect ou r spacefrom th em without cau sing dam-age to our selves? Ron Whiteh urstof Rincon-Vitova Insectaries saysit well: Everyth ing eats an d iseaten by someth ing else; the ideais to bring a dynam ic balance be-

tween pests and their natural en-emies. The art icle on "Sharin gSpace" on this page ofThe Eco-logical Landscaperfocuse s onsome gentler ways to rid ourlandscapes of various pests.

Fran Gustm an is editor of thisnew sletter and of theHortResources Newslet-ter and is the gardencolum nist for the All-ston -Brighton TAB.

The Newslett er of the Ecological Landscaping Associat ion Vol. 12, No. 3 Fall 2005

The goal of the EcologicalLandscaping Association isto educate, collaborate, and

network to promote environmen-tally responsible design, installa-tion, and maintenan ce orsimply put, to h elp those who

landscape tre ad more gently onthe earth.The ecological landscaper

strives to create an attractivegreen space th at will support thenatur al ecosystems present on asite. Can we live happily withsome dande lions and clover in th elawn, if it m ean s tha t we applyfewer he rbicides an d less high-ni-trogen fer tilizer? Maybe. Let'sstrive to create "demon strat ion

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Because land doesnt come with a manual...

w it hin:Living Within Nat ure................1

Sharing Space..........................1

2004 -06 Roundta bles...............3

Why I Adore Decollate Snails ..4

2004 -05 Winter Conference:

Rodent Damage.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Creating Wildlife Habitat...7

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Coexisting with NatureBurn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic,but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

W illiam Jennings Bryan1860 - 1925

Below is a comp ilation of w ide-ranging thoughts on dealingw ith pests in the landscap e.

On squirrels. Capsaicin is theingredient in hot pepper mix-tures th at causes a burning sen-sation. I make u p a solution of

water, chili peppers, an d dishsoap (to make it stick) to keepsquirrels from beh eading thecrocus. It doesn t both er birds,however, which do n ot h avetaste buds.

I also find th at covering thesurface of the soil in cont ainerswith small stones or gravel de-ters squirrels from uprootingthe plants. This may be of usefor people who are squeam ishabout using hot pepper. ed.

On bears. If th ere ar e bears inthe n eighborhood, it is NOT agood idea to feed birds. Duringthe sum mer, birds have plent y offood anyway so feed th em onlywhen bears are h ibernating.Bears especially love the fat insunflower seed s. I lear ned t histh e ha rd way: I left seed in abucket and had a bear come to

Living W ithin N atureFran Gustman, Editor

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Gramm a said w hen you come on

som ething good, first thing to do is

share it with w hoever you can find;

that w ay the good spread out w here

no telling it w ill go. Which is right.

Little Tree inThe Education of

Little Tree, by Forrest Carter

Bob LeviteCathy RooneyKathy Sargent-

ONeillBruce WenningOwen Wormser

th e house, followed by a visitfrom Fish and Gam e. Feedingbears does th em n o favors; whenbears become a problem, theyhave to be put down. JeffLowenfels, jeff@garden er.com , Alask a

On moles and voles. People seemto con fuse m oles and voles,maybe because the names rhyme.

Moles are mor e ben ign in thegarden . They live most of theirlives below ground, eating con-tinually of grubs and worms;the y are insec tivores. In NewEngland, moles ran ge in size be-tween 5 and 8 inch es.

Voles are h erbivores an dlive above groun d, un der leafl it ter. The pine vole is 3 to 4

inch es and th e mead ow vole is3 1/2 to 5 inch es. Voles arealso called pine m ice butthey are not mice.

People also confuse both molesand voles with the shrew, whichhas a long tail like a vole. It staysunder leaf litter like a vole butshould be r egarded as bene ficialas it is an carnivore, eat ing slugs,snails, and mice. ed.

When the snows of winte rmelt, th ere is a loud cry of de-

spair hear d ech oing from h ill tohill as garden ers becom e awaretha t swaths of once peac efulgree n n ow resem ble B & O ra il-road yards.

Moles do not eat bulbs orroots. They will chew th roughthem if the plants are in the waybut th ey do not ingest the resultsof their chewing. However, inthe ir zeal, they often do damageby heaving up th e lawn, causingthe grass to dry out quickly and

creating unsightly ridges fromtheir tunnel-tops, a sight that irri-tates some people more th an pay-ing taxes.

Garden writers and extensionagents have attacked these poorcreatures in print an d in the field.There have been many methodstried to remove moles, but I'venever seen an y work except

Sharing continued from p. 1 cyanide gas, which is too danger-ous. Catalogs sell windmills onspikes that make a rum bling noisemean t to scare moles away. Sub-stances recommended to cause afast dem ise by ingestion in cludedollops of Tabasc o Sauce , ch ilipowder, che wing gum, a nd m oth-balls. Some people suggest pour-ing castor oil down the holes forget it. Poison ba it isn't a goodidea if you have a ca t, dog, orchild that is valuable to you.Ive even heard suggested hook-ing up a hose from th e exhau stof a car to th e holes messy tothe lawn and dan gerous toeverybody.

If you have man y moles, theyare doing something for you thatyou havent done for yourse lf

they are killing garden enemies.A sur feit of moles is always tiedto a bum per cr op of grubs, espe-cially Japanese beet les. Milkyspore disease m ay be an effect ivebiological contr ol [landscaper s inNew England say t hat is less tru ein cold areas ed.]; it is a fungaldisease th at infects the larvae ofJapanese beetles but bother snoth ing else. It will take a yea r ormore to effect th e cure an d untilthen the moles will dig tunnels

and hunt for food. When the foodruns out, they will too.

Other animals, includingvoles and mice, may use the tun-nels, so stomp th e ridges downto fill them in . Peter Loew er is abotanical illustra tor included in

the Carnegie-Mellon Institute of

Botanical Docum entation. He has

w ritten and illustrated over 30

books, including The Wild Gar-

dener; thew ildgardener.com.

Moles dug the most extraordi-

nary n etwork of tunnels in mygarden going after grubs and 25%of my garden each year for aboutfive years d ied from collapsinginto the t unn els. I tried every-thing, from battery-operated vi-brating devices to the u rine ofhalf the wild animal species in thenorthern hemisphere, until I

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attr acts dogs and r odents t hat will dig up th e bulbseven if th ey dont eat the m.

On birds. Birds are gener ally desirable in t he gar-den to eat insec t pests, but th e bird feeder itselfmay cause a problem. One gardener had a bear at-tracted to th e sugar water that she hun g for hum -mingbirds. Th e allelopath ic effect of sun flowerseeds will kill a wide swath of vegetation so plan forhar dscape below the feeder. ed.P

Sharing continued from p. 2

started using milky spore t wice a season, beginn ingand end. It's available mixed with a granular sub-stance so th at it spreads easily in a spreader at astandard #18 opening. The number of moles was sig-nificantly reduced by the end of the first season. Anylarge garden supply operat ion will have it. AndreaBarrist S tern, Woodstock , NY, is an ass ociate editor for

Woodstock Times, a freelance journ alist, and a p hotogra-

pher; abar riststern @aol.com.Milky spore disease ,Bacilis popilliae, takes a

while to spread through the Japanese beetle popu-lation but will last for year s. The downside is thatthis disease is h ighly specific to Japa nese beetlesand doesnt go after other grubs.

Faster and br oader spectrum are insect patho-genic (or entomophagus) nematodes. Heterorhab-ditis bacteriophora, H. indica and H. ma relatusare t hre e species th at work well on grubs lots ofkinds of grubs: whit e grubs, ch afer, black vine wee-vil, corn r oot worm, cucu mber beetle, as well asbillbugs, th rips (pu pating in soil), root ap hids, root

mealybugs, and to a lesser exten t oth er insect s inth e soil. So if you don t kn ow wha t kin d of gru bsare a ffecting the r oots of the grass, or att ract ingmoles, raccoons, or skun ks to dig up your sod, usenematodes. Ron Whitehurst of California is MarketingManager, Rincon-Vitova Insectaries. He can be reached at

bugnet@rinconv itova.com , rinconv itova.com .

If voles get out of han d th e best m eth od of contr olis an old-fashioned mouse t rap ba ited with small bitsof apple. And rew Messinger has taught horticulture atthe Brooklyn Botanic Garden an d w rites The Ham pton

Gard ener w eekly for the Southampton Press.

On deer. Bren t Heath of Bren t an d Becky's Bulbs sug-gests planting bulbs that a re poisonous and th uspest-free . These inc lude all those in th e Amar yllisfamily, such as daffodils (Narcissus ), snowdrops(Galanthus ), Triteleia (Brodeia), and summersnowflakes (Leucojum ) and th ose in th e Ranunculusfamily, such as an emones an d butt ercups. Bulbs thatanimals will eat but do n ot prefer are consideredpest-resistant; among them are allium, fritillaria(although th is is suscept ible to red lily-leaf beetle, asare a ll plant s inLiliaceae), muscari and ch ionodoxa.

Tulips are am ong the favorite eat s of deer and

are even edible to hum an beings. Brent and Beckyadd t ulip petals to salads; sweetly fragrant tulipsare best for th is use. During World War II, th eDutch supplemented their m eager diets by eatingthe ir tulips, which supplied th em with starch .

To keep the deer away, however, Brent suggestsapplying Ropel to bulbs before planting and to adda h andful of sharp gravel to the hole when p lanting.When the leaves em erge, he sprays with Deer-Off,which is concocted from smelly egg solids. Brentstrongly discourages the use of bone m eal, which

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person, so a week later I blitzed the garden withfive hundred more.

For a year, I continued to h andpick maturehelix snails, squashing them and leaving themess behin d for th e decollates the existenceof which, by the way, had bec ome a m atter offaith. Mary ma y be able to scoop the m by th ethousands in her tidy seven-acre orchard, but allI've found since 1994 is five empty shells. The

reason, Mary says, is th at decollates are noctu r-nal. During the da y, to stay moist an d cool, theyburr ow into the ground at t he base of bushe s.

I've n oticed m y garden 's decollate/helix ratiowaxes and wanes, probably because th e preda-tors decrea se when the y run out of prey. Sincehelix snails easily reintr oduce t hem selves allthe y have to do is sprint ac ross the stre et, everyother year or so, usually after spr ing rains, I buya couple hundr ed decollates an d drop them likelittle parat roopers into th e garden . Incidentally,decollates don't climb, like helix snails do, sodecollates ten d to stay put in a terr aced gardenlike min e.

Decollates, which are nat ive to t he Mediter-ranean (as are helix snails), have been approvedby the ecological powers-that-be for release in

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In my garden, I have tiny helpers who protec tflowers an d ten der leaves from h arm . I pay themnoth ing, never see t hem , and feel amazingly

blessed to have them.Fairies? No, decollate snails.If you've yet to get decollates, it's pr obably because

you've heard th ey eat seedlings. I've never seen anyevidence of that, but I have seen com mon gardensnails consume not on ly seedlings but ent ire ponypacks. Decollates (Rum ina decollata ) feed on decay-ing organic matter when they r un out of their pre-ferred food, the eggs and youn g of the brown gardensnail (Helix asp ersa), so they're a lso little composter s.

When I first cu ltivated in South ern Californiawhat seem ed to be a half-acre salad bar for helixsnails, I bought snail bait by th e 50-pound bag. For-tun ately, my dog never went n ear it. Now, sevenyears after int roducing decollates, I've saved th eircost man y times over in bait I haven't bought. And

I'm no longer dum ping poison onto t he soil.For years, on foggy evenings, my husband, son

and I h and-picked h elix snails by the bucke tful. Per-haps neighbors, seeing our flashlights, thou ght some-one h ad lost a contact lens. Day or night , when ever Ifound a sn ail, I squashed it or th rew it into thestreet . Once I propelled a large snail thr ough th eopen window of a pickup tru ck. Oops.

An editor from a big publication visited. She worea business suit an d he els and minc ed gingerlythr ough t he garden . I'll never forget th e look on herface when I crun ched a juicy snail the size of a ping-pong ball beneath my Reeboks. It's a wonder shestayed for lunch .

In 1994, Sunset magazine a ssigned m e a Garde nGuide item on decollate snails. It was only a couplehun dred words, but I researched th e topic thor-oughly. I learned th at San Diego's main sour ce ofdecollate s was Mary Borevitz of San Marcos, who h adbought a h andful of the inc h-long, con ical-shelledsnails back in 1984.

"They looked dead when the y came in th e mail,"Mary told me. "I tossed them u nder a tre e in my or-ange grove and forgot about th em."

Evidently the dec ollates were mer ely dormant ,

because it wasn't long before t hat part of the grovehad far fewer h elix snails. Soon, Mary' s well-feddecollates were so numer ous, she starte d collectingthe m an d selling them via mail order.

I went from be ing skeptical to wanting decollatesdesperat ely. But I h ad just spr ead sn ail bait! Marytold me t o wait six weeks for it t o dissipate. Th en Ibought a plastic cupful of snails, which look like peri-winkle seashells only not as prett y, and t ucked t hembeneath cannas, n asturtiums, aloes, and everythingelse. A hun dred sn ails went fast and I'm n ot a patien t

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W hy I Adore Decollate SnailsDebra Lee Baldwin


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Snails continued from p. 4

Debra Lee Baldw in w on the Best Consum erWriting Aw ard from the San Diego Press Clubfor this article. She has w ritten for San DiegoHome/Garden magazine, Sunset, an dBetterHomes & Garden s special issues. Contact herat Su nw [email protected] .

Decollate snails are available through Mary's Decollate Snails

(Mary Borevitz): 760-744-9233, www.goodsnails.com, [email protected].

Ideal coverage is one decollate per square foot .

$21.50/ 100 snails; $88/ 500 and $137.50/ 1,000.

Southern California, but are not necessarily "legal" else-where. So, Mary's careful where she sh ips them. She sayshelix snails may have been imported to California as a foodsource du ring the gold rush , by European immigran ts. I'vealso heard h elix snails were in troduc ed by some idiot whohoped to ma ke a killing in e scargot.

The Sn ail Lady, I'm h appy to say, has don e well. She cou ntsamong her clients the San Diego Zoo, the Wild Animal Park,

Legoland, Sea World and the Four Seasons Aviara Resort. Lastyear, she sold her millionth decollate snail.

If it has be en a long time sinc e I've seen a helix snail, myinitial reaction ten ds to be th e same I h ad as a ch ild: "What aninter esting little creat ure. Look at its pret ty sh ell..." Butquickly I come to my senses an d tra nsform it into ch ow forwhat m y husba nd c alls "stealth sn ails" and what I considermy garden's m ost valuable guardian s.

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Dr. Gwilyn Jones Talk onRodent Damage in the LandscapeReviewed by Jana Howe

D

r. Gwilyn Jones of North eastern Universityguessed th at th e topic Rodent Damage in th e

Landscape might n ot be th e best forright a fter br eakfast. Atten dance waslighte r at th is early Saturday morn ing pres-ent ation of the ELA Winter conferencethan on th e previous day.

Dr. Jones star ted with a slide show oftwenty local rodents, with a h are an d a cot-tontail thrown in, describing the mammals and thetypes of damage th ey can inflict on plant s.

I learned t hat voles, mice, and muskrats are in t hesame family,Muridae, and differ pr imarily in thetype of teeth ; voles have prismatic or t riangularteet h, while mice don't. Voles eat the roots of trees

and girdle trees at the soil surface.Woodchucks are in the squirrel family, Sciuridae.

Squirrels and chipmunks cause extensive damage bymar king tree ba rk with the ir teeth ; grey squirre ls inNew York Citys Cen tr al Park have str ipped hugelengths of bark off old sugar maples, which has led tothe deaths of the trees although this is rare.

The ELA 2004-05 W inter Conference:two reviews of lectures

Dr. Jones explained that land owners and land-scapers create rodent problems by altering the nat-ural habitat and that we must correctly identify thesource of damage before killing animals. We are re-sponsible for hu man ely ending an animal's life byshoot ing or poisoning; it is illegal to dr own th em orto transport them to new areas, both because theywill be set u p for tu rf wars an d becau se the prob-lem will shift t o anot her spot.

There aresome effectivedeterrents.Fox urineworks tofrighten r o-

dent s away from an area . A mesh screen buried a footdeep around tree trun ks deters them from eatingroots. One attendee wondered if chewing gum wouldkill rodents; Dr. Jones said it does but mouse or rattraps set directly on runs work better an d are u suallyfaster. Have-a-Heart traps, however, are unreliable.Dr. Jones thought cert ain breeds of dog could betra ined to hunt roden ts; however, cats kill all kinds ofthings and are n ot recommen ded. He loved the ideaof attr acting owls to a property bu t added t hat owlswould not be effective for a big roden t problem.

Dr. Jones acknowledged that rodent damage is an un-pleasant problem for which there is no one-time solution.


Global Warming. Scientists de tail the effects of awarming environm ent on wildlife in NationalWildlife magazine, April/May 2005. The issue isavailable at www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife: in theoran ge box, up per left, click on See past issues.

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Peter Picones Talk onCreating Wildlife Habitat in the LandscapeReviewed by Jana Howe

Peter Picone, wildlife biologist for the ConnecticutDepartment of Environmental Protection, spoke oncreatin g wildlife habita t. He pr ovided a list of flowersand shru bs preferred by hu mmingbirds and bees and

handed out Enhancing Your Backyard Habitat forWildlife to th e first few rows of the audien ce, as a r e-ward for sitting up close. This great booklet, which hecompiled for the CT DEP, provides basic informationon habitat enh ancemen t, instructions for creatingnest boxes an d brush piles, plant lists, and a u seful"Backyard Habitat Assessment Form." I wonderwhether similar publications ar e available in NewHampshire where I live or in other st ates.

The four basic requ iremen ts for wildlife a re food,water, shelter or cover, and space. Space requ ire-men ts vary dram atically amon g differen t species.

The Amer ican robin, for example, requires 3 to 5acres to r aise offspring, while her cousin, th e woodthrush, requires ten t imes as much space. While ourpropert ies may not su pport a breedin g pair of woodthr ushes, we may be able to provide food to helpthem as they migrate.

A man ager of habitat m ust predict what h appen sseasonally an d h ow wildlife int eract s with th e land-scape. To increase the wildlife-carrying capacity ofthe proper ties we own or man age, Picone suggeststha t we inventory food, cover, space, and water asthey ch ange through the seasons. Then we shouldidentify limiting factors. Finally, we should create a

plan for ha bitat impr ovement. Picone feels we needto be especially aware of fragmenta tion of the land-scape due to developmen t, th e swift an d steady lossof habitat on woodland edges (youn g forest/thicket) ,and the encroachment of invasive species.

He also stresses the need to be patient. It takes timeto create good habitat. Plant s need to establish them -selves, and animals need to find them . Picone planted astand of bayberry that migrating warblers t ook fouryears to find, but they've come back yearly since.

Finally, Picone advised us not to fall int o the trap of"para lysis by an alysis" or its opposite "execution by in-stinct." We can become good habitat managers over

time, learning from books and by trial and err or out inthe field. He ended with th ese words from Mark Twain:"Bad judgment comes from inexperience. Experiencecomes from bad judgment."P

Jana How e is a former English m ajor w ho laterstud ied arboriculture at the Stockbridge School atUMASS Amherst. She now w orks for herself ma in-taining landscapes, minim izing env ironm ental im -pacts, an d m ax im izing the ecological benefits of aw ell-plann ed garden.


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