What are you canning now?

[Mehjr10]

Artist paint brush on a long stick always works good for the plant AI

 

[Arielle]

Well I am going to try a second planting of the squash this year... that's what I get for only doing a few.

I managed to get my blackberry jam done for this week. I'm going back to pick again on Saturday.

I managed 7 pints and 19 1/2 pints (+ 1 3/4 of a pint I kept for myself and stuck it in the fridge)

Not a bad night, but I need sleep!!!

What a beautiful sight!

Artist paint brush on a long stick always works good for the plant AI

DH said he used this method when growing squash in a green house = no bees to do the pollinating.

 

[Chicky Babe]

You must be very careful using horse manure. "green" (fresh) manure can easily burn young roots. My reccomendation would be to use at least year old and spread over the ground at the end pf season and plow under in the spring. That is if you don't do a cover crop! The manure tea will help break down the manure allowing you to use much fresher poo! Lol had to throw poo in there somewhere! Childish I know!

 

[rancher hicks]

Well I am going to try a second planting of the squash this year... that's what I get for only doing a few.

I managed to get my blackberry jam done for this week. I'm going back to pick again on Saturday.

I managed 7 pints and 19 1/2 pints (+ 1 3/4 of a pint I kept for myself and stuck it in the fridge)

Not a bad night, but I need sleep!!!

I am so jealous.

 

[Cryptkeeper]

Went to the garden this morning to find the last mature green bean plant i had fell victim to the gophers.

That makes 40 bean plants 23 peanut plants 1 pumpkin 4 corn lost to those D@*n things.

so more green bean canning will have to wait

 

[Arielle]

Went to the garden this morning to find the last mature green bean plant i had fell victim to the gophers.

That makes 40 bean plants 23 peanut plants 1 pumpkin 4 corn lost to those D@*n things.

so more green bean canning will have to wait

I've heard gopher is delicious! Especially after filling up on corn, beans and pumpkin. Sorry green bean canning will have to wait.

 

[KDbeads]

We use castor oil granules for deterring moles, works very good....... wonder if it'd work for the gophers?

 

[Cryptkeeper]

I've heard gopher is delicious! Especially after filling up on corn, beans and pumpkin. Sorry green bean canning will have to wait.

Thanks Arielle for the sympathy.

We use castor oil granules for deterring moles, works very good....... wonder if it'd work for the gophers?

I have read that it works for gophers, but my girls free range everywhere but the garden, if my girls ingest them I am sure it can't be good for them?? And I am not sure the effect of the granules on my veggies if I put them just in the garden. Any advice?

 

[rancher hicks]

Like it or not.

I had a skunk I think that chewed into the plastic jug of chickens feed I left on the ground. I think it was a skunk cuz I smelled one two day in a row. Though I do have a rabbit that lives here.

anyhow I "marked" my territory around the coops which are inside the fenced in yard and no more skunk smell. I did see Mr. Rabbit tonight though. He doesn't seem afraid as he just wanders around like he owns the place.

My point, have a male family member "mark" the gopher holes and I bet the move on just like the Ground hog did that lived under the coop when I first converted it.

 

[Arielle]

Like it or not.

I had a skunk I think that chewed into the plastic jug of chickens feed I left on the ground. I think it was a skunk cuz I smelled one two day in a row. Though I do have a rabbit that lives here.

anyhow I "marked" my territory around the coops which are inside the fenced in yard and no more skunk smell. I did see Mr. Rabbit tonight though. He doesn't seem afraid as he just wanders around like he owns the place.

My point, have a male family member "mark" the gopher holes and I bet the move on just like the Ground hog did that lived under the coop when I first converted it.

Sometimes the most basic deterents work! LOL DH goes out with the dogs when the coyote night be a problem. All the males "mark" their territory. Will definitely try to make a path the woodchuck won't cross. He ate everything last year. The bum.