What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Dang hissing cobra chickens..... (yes, canada geese)

 

[jerryse]

Geese? At my lake cabin they sometimes get trapped on the lake during their molt. They are flightless for about a month. What a mess they make. Lake residents try to discourage them staying during the molt. A flock of 20+ is too many for a small lake. There are larger lakes nearby.

 

[akroberts1085]

That puddle wasn't there this morning at 10:30. I'm over the rain.

 

[member 655102]

Dang hissing cobra chickens..... (yes, canada geese)

And those ridiculous loud honking noises they make too -shudders- I swear it’s louder than my car sometimes…I watch them fly by overhead every year and I SMDH. Filthy things.

 

[WthrLady]

And those ridiculous loud honking noises they make too -shudders- I swear it’s louder than my car sometimes…I watch them fly by overhead every year and I SMDH.

We call it 'country rush-hour'.

 

[gtaus]

As a kid, Canadian geese would regularly chase us, honking and hissing...even if we didn't get close to their babies.

I have heard that Candian geese have a powerful bite. In fact, I heard that they can break your wrist if they got a good hold on you. I would certainly keep children away from them. But I guess my old wisdom is incorrect. I found this online...

Maybe I was told they have a bad bite when I was young to discourage me from getting too close to them. In any case, I have never been bitten by a Candian goose.

They also poop EVERYWHERE.

I'm convinced that applies to all geese. The only good thing is that goose poo is mainly green stuff that washes off pretty easy. On the other hand, it can make a sidewalk easy for a person to slip and fall.

Every summer we have several lakes that inevitably get shut down to the public due to e.coli problems related to goose feces.

That's no good. I guess the lakes where I live are bigger and/or we don't get as many geese all at the same time.

Geese? At my lake cabin they sometimes get trapped on the lake during their molt. They are flightless for about a month. What a mess they make. Lake residents try to discourage them staying during the molt. A flock of 20+ is too many for a small lake. There are larger lakes nearby.

I have never seen Candian geese on my lake during molt. Maybe we are just a stop on their migration at different times of the year.

And those ridiculous loud honking noises they make too -shudders- I swear it’s louder than my car sometimes…I watch them fly by overhead every year and I SMDH. Filthy things.

I'm not feeling the love for the Candian geese from you guys! I guess I'm in the minority opinion here. But I always look forward to hearing that familiar honking as the Candian geese fly overhead.

I had to look up the abbreviation of SMDH. I'm not too hip to texting and such. But geese flying overhead, honking and all, just brings a smile to my face.

 

[member 655102]

We call it 'country rush-hour'.

Indeed. We do…

I'm not feeling the love for the Candian geese from you guys! I guess I'm in the minority opinion here. But I always look forward to hearing that familiar honking as the Candian geese fly overhead.

I had to look up the abbreviation of SMDH. I'm not too hip to texting and such. But geese flying overhead, honking and all, just brings a smile to my face.

I dunno…I’ve just never really been fond of geese, I guess. I once had a Chinese and African goose…That didn’t last long.

I ended up processing, smoking and eating them.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I have heard that Candian geese have a powerful bite. In fact, I heard that they can break your wrist if they got a good hold on you. I would certainly keep children away from them. But I guess my old wisdom is incorrect. I found this online...

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Maybe I was told they have a bad bite when I was young to discourage me from getting too close to them. In any case, I have never been bitten by a Candian goose.



I'm convinced that applies to all geese. The only good thing is that goose poo is mainly green stuff that washes off pretty easy. On the other hand, it can make a sidewalk easy for a person to slip and fall.



That's no good. I guess the lakes where I live are bigger and/or we don't get as many geese all at the same time.



I have never seen Candian geese on my lake during molt. Maybe we are just a stop on their migration at different times of the year.



I'm not feeling the love for the Candian geese from you guys! I guess I'm in the minority opinion here. But I always look forward to hearing that familiar honking as the Candian geese fly overhead.

I had to look up the abbreviation of SMDH. I'm not too hip to texting and such. But geese flying overhead, honking and all, just brings a smile to my face.

You have 10,000 lakes.... We have a fraction of that. The geese around here usually don't stay. They stop in their migratory pattern, but that typically means we get tons of them. They congregate in large groups around our lakes which is what leads to the e coli issues in the water and surrounding land.

We don't typically get them in our pond though. This is the first time I can recall in the 4 yrs we've lived there... Blue herons, on the other hand, are almost a daily occurance.

We'll see how long the pair sticks around. I'm assuming it's a mating pair. If more start to congregate, I'll run them off.

 

[Nym]

I don't use any antivirus except windows security. I was advised to do so by someone who knows about computers. for the last 8 or so years I have been fine. with different antiviruses I had always had some junk downloaded and antivirus "had to clean it". I wonder if they downloaded then cleaned them so that it looks they do something.

Bingo! I lived with pc tech who confirmed as much.

 

[gtaus]

Have you seen these bucket gardens? Hmmmm I'm thinking deck lettuce.

I like watching those bucket stand videos. If I made such a stand, I would want to make the buckets self-wicking, or sub-irrigation buckets and not just have drain holes in the bottom where you would have to water them all the time.

I have tried to figure out how to make the watering of the buckets easier. That is, maybe one large water reservoir container with some kind of water lines to each bucket, filling each bucket to a predetermined level and stopping.

I have not yet figured out a system that I want in that respect.

I like the idea of being able to swap out buckets if you want. Maybe planting some early cool weather plants (like peas) outside while warm weather plants (like peppers) are still growing inside the house or greenhouse. Then, about the time the peas are done, just pull out that bucket and plop in a bucket of peppers.

Having said that, I am still very happy with my 4X4 foot 16-inch high pallet wood raised bed v2.0 which I can build for less than $2.00 each.

I fill the bottom half of the raised bed with hügelkultur wood and the top half is topsoil/compost mixed 1:1. I have lots of chicken run compost on hand, but my native soil is sandy lakeside crap, so I do buy a trailer full of Red River topsoil from a local nursery about every other year - depending on how many new raised beds I'm building.

Just thinking out loud, maybe one could fill a 5-gallon bucket with about 4-6 inches of wood chips on the bottom, and top it off with that topsoil/compost mix and have a Hugle pot type of setup? I would think the wood chips on the bottom would act like a water battery and retain lots of moisture even if you had drain holes on the bottom, or the side.

I just don't like the idea of paying all that money for buckets ($5 each) and then drilling drain holes in the bottom - which guarantees that you will be watering those buckets all the time.