Oh my, a skunk! We had plenty of those around this spring... my dogs chased one once, but only once!! It took weeks, maybe months for the smell to go away. Lots of baths with baking soda and peroxide! I think that's why they don't chase the rabbits because it was in the same area as the skunk encounter? Don't like those things around at all, also because they often carry rabies.
Oh my Joseph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know it not funny, but can't help it. Just have this picture in my head of your veggie picking basket going one way. Tools going another and you high-tailing it still another.
Of all the critters I could think of off hand the idea of a skunk has never crossed my mind. No offense my fiend, but glad you having to deal with it and not me. If it was here I'd be doing one of two things, either trying to make sure it had enough food or spending all my time in tomato juice baths.
That is going to be one critter I think you may have trouble getting rid of. Is there even anything you can do? Sure hope no dogs try and chase it. Do you think you just have one or a whole family and relatives out there?
Skunks and porcupines, especially the second. Two real nasty critters.
I've had several more armadillos this year in the yard than I normally do. Have no idea where they coming in from.
We finally got some rain Saturday night. Was so glad. It least it cooled things for a few hours.
If any of you comes across an onion called Red Burgermeister, I'd like to try and get a hold of it. They say that it is no longer being produced. If there is any of it any where's would like to try and get some just to keep it out of extinction.
My puter won't open that nature link for me. Not enough power I guess, but I don't know about anybody else, but I do try and see if I can get things maybe that are older and starting to disappear. Yes, we have new varieties and such, but with weather conditions changing constantly you never know if maybe it will take an older or discontinued seed to maybe now grow in that area.
West Coast.... How ya holding with the heat and the fires? News tells us here that it getting worse and worse for you. Hope you and your families and friends all stay safe.
Starlight/Ella wrote: "If any of you comes across an onion called Red Burgermeister, I'd like to try and get a hold of it. They say that it is no longer being produced. If there is any of it any where's would like to try and get some just to keep it out of extinction. "
I contacted an 'onion expert' who grows these and he said that the Red Burgermeister will be available in the spring, not as seeds or sets, but as seedlings ready to pop into the ground.
Hope this helps a bit.
Edit: I forgot to say that it is a hybrid so it won't be good for seed saving.
Name: Joseph Cache Valley Great Basin Landrace: locally-adapted diversity
I had meant to wear my pistol that day, but alas (or fortunately) I forgot to strap it on that morning. Skunks are like cockroaches. You only see the scouts, not the main horde that is hiding close by.
I've decided to sacrifice the corn this summer in hopes of developing a skunk-resistant variety... I had so much hope for the pretty colors and fascinating crosses that I was expecting this year... My popcorn has never had a problem with animals. I wonder if it's because many of the cobs are 5 to 6 feet off the ground.
They didn't do anything at all. I am sure it was me, I prob didn't keep them watered well enough. If they show up in the swap again I will have to give them another go
I think some are, I went looking for them to see what they were doing and only found a couple that had dried up and flaked apart. you would think I didn't water them at all but I did thinking it may have been too well draining of soil perhaps. The others I didn't see but left the pot and keep watering.
Name: Joseph Cache Valley Great Basin Landrace: locally-adapted diversity
A few years ago I grew "Red Burgermaster" onion from this source: http://www.andersonseedandgarden.com/viewer/item?m=823&s=l It produced seeds normally even though it is claimed to be a hybrid. That makes me question whether or not it is actually a hybrid.
It is my understanding that a hybrid can produce seeds, but the seeds will result in a plant that may be different...a plant which can show characteristics of either of the two parent plants. So, seed saved from a Red Burgermeister/Burgermaster will grow an onion plant, but you won't know exactly which onion or it it will have good traits. The Red Burgermaster is a descendent of a cross between a Torpedo Red onion and a White Spanish onion somewhere on its family tree.
Name: Joseph Cache Valley Great Basin Landrace: locally-adapted diversity
Onion hybrids are typically made using male-sterile plants and the male sterility is carried through the maternal line into the seed. So hybrid onions do not typically produce seeds unless there is some non-hybrid pollen nearby. I didn't intend to let the Red Burgermaster go to seed, but it got left in the field, and overwintered without freezing, and then flowered normally, so I allowed it, and it didn't act at all like a hybrid. I haven't planted the offspring to see if they segregate into different types.
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Don't like those things around at all, also because they often carry rabies. 
thinking it may have been too well draining of soil perhaps. The others I didn't see but left the pot and keep watering. 
