What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

I went to the next town over to pick up some composite fence posts and I saw this mouse/rat trap on display. Owner says he uses them in his barn and in the hardware store and they work a treat.
I told him they don't manufacture enough CO2 cartridges to keep them running on my place. LOL.
Interesting concept though.
https://goodnature.co/pages/videos

 

[MotherofOrpies]

After weeks of no rain we had lots of rain, tomorrow we will go below zero and next Saturday temperatures are expected around 72

 

[MinnPeeps]

Still too frozen to plant or anything garden related. Receiving about 10 to 12 inches between the next few days. All depressing. But I'm starting some seedlings, and I ordered some seed potatoes and seeds yesterday. I can't contain myself; I have to grow something soon. LOL.

 

[Sally PB]

Yesterday. It'll all melt in the next day or so.

I need some dirt therapy! I'll get it in the green house today.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

I went to the next town over to pick up some composite fence posts and I saw this mouse/rat trap on display. Owner says he uses them in his barn and in the hardware store and they work a treat.
I told him they don't manufacture enough CO2 cartridges to keep them running on my place. LOL.
Interesting concept though.
https://goodnature.co/pages/videos

I have heard good and bad about it, in some cases it helps, in other cases it is a very expensive electric device which doesn’t help

 

[Smokerbill]

Once they're established they spred easily from any branch that touches the ground. At least this is true of my red ones. I'll probably let them take over the raised bed they're in. The red ones make lovely jelly, I should try the black ones too.

A nice thing about black currants is that the deer seem to leave them alone. I'm tired of having to put fences around every plant in order to protect them from the blacktail deer that often come to visit.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am curious does it shoot them in the brain ?
I took out many like 32 of them with the co2 pistol.
Morning Gardeners.

 

[Molpet]

I am curious does it shoot them in the brain ?
I took out many like 32 of them with the co2 pistol.
Morning Gardeners.

Hammer or bolt

 

[NewBoots]

I haven't been on BYC much, if at all for a while now because I just didn't really have anything to contribute.

This news should fit here quite well, though:
WE ARE FINALLY GETTING CHICKENS THIS YEAR!!!! We are working on the chicken coop, and I placed my chicks order last night!!!!!!!! I got Cream Legbars, Black Copper Marans (one will be a rooster), and Lavender Orpingtons! I'm just so excited that I woke up about an hour and ten minutes before my alarm and couldn't fall back to sleep because I was thinking about the coop and run and chicks! We have 3 weeks before the chicks will arrive, and are planning on making a really good chunk of progress on the coop today! It has been about 4 years since I decided I wanted chickens, but they kept getting pushed aside for more important expenses, so, if you can't tell, I AM SUPER EXCITED!!!

In gardening, I have leeks, cabbages, all of my peppers, rosemary, and artichokes started inside. Almost all of the peppers have come up, and half of the leeks are up while half were started from seed yesterday. I've been using SeedTime to help with the scheduling of everything, and that was SUPER helpful. I visited my aunt and uncle in FL the other month, and tried to raise some cuttings from their rosemary plant, but those died. So I had to buy seeds, and I'm super excited for those! Tons of fungus gnats in the grow room, but I'm not terribly certain what to do about it. I saw a small spider come out of one of the pots and cheered it on, but that's about all I can do while starting seeds that need moist soil... unless anyone has any suggestions?

Anywho, this post is really long now, so I'll sign off. I hope everyone is doing well and excited/prepared for this gardening season!

I am so excited for you! It was so exciting when I was finally getting chickens, the coop and run planning was the perfect appetizer. The maran eggs are so pretty! And you reminded me, I need to grow leeks this year.

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEEEEEN??? I'm so happy to see you, I've missed you!

HUGS! I missed you too! It's so nice to see so many familiar posters still here. And I'm happy to be back, I was doing so little gardening for a while that I felt like a poser, I spent a ton of time fishing believe it or not. And the weather was terrible for my beloved tomatoes, I canned nearly everything including some pretty old frozen ones just to restock my sauce and salsa stores. I took a bunch of food preservation classes and learned to make kombucha. We love the stuff so I keep a 2 gallon container working all the time now.

 

[Sueby]

I would love to take classes like that, sound neat. I need to retire first I think.