What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

I used pool noodles, cut a slit all down it to slip it on & allow for growth. I did that because the deer were rubbing bark off my young apple trees. I never thought of using vet wrap, but then won't that have to be re-wrapped every so often, so it won't constrict growth?

It rots off before it constricts. I use it to make the rabbits move on, well move on = eaten by a hawk, usually. And you don't have to wrap it tightly anyway.

 

[WthrLady]

Vet wrap...so tell me what other uses you all find for this stuff.

I know duct tape has many unconventional uses, I use my old feed bags for trash & close them shut at the top with a bit of duct tape on a regular basis.

I love vet wrap for correcting a chick's splay leg, comfortably holding a bandage on a wound to keep it clean while healing like bumblefoot, covering a broken Rooster spur a few days so he doesn't bop it and get blood all over the place while it heals, even helped keep a young Rooster's leg splint on properly as he healed from a broken leg while suspended in a healing hammock.

Some people use it on bucket handles or old wooden handles of things, to prevent splinters or just get a better grip.

Ideas???

I use it wrapped around my palms for hay bale stacking when it's too hot for gloves.
Emergency gate closure or for those gates that hold in master's of escapes.
figure 8 between a tree and tree stake
hold shoe on with broken shoelace in a field
holding down the flapping, jingling end of a lynch pin on the roll bar of the mower/tractor
bundling iron cattle bar together in a bundle
quick cover for a rubbed spot on a hotwire fence
wrap on my favorite pitch fork

 

[jerryse]

DW had a 2:30 PT appointment. I went along and got some groceries while she had PT. Anymore I feel like I am shopping in Russia or some other foreign country. Shortages. 4 items on my list were not there. Got home and raised garage door and a big rat snake fell down. DW screamed. I had to dispatch it to satisfy her. I allow the rodent eater to live when DW does not know. How can a snake crawl to the top of a garage door trying to get in?

 

[Sally PB]

For the same price, I recently bought a stainless steel hose.

I recently got a metal hose, and love it. It never kinks!

I'd never heard of a SS hose until I saw it in a catalog. I'd be up for replacing one hose at a time, if they are as good as they sound.

I have a LOT of hose. Probably 300 feet to service the downhill garden, and 75-100 to take care of any hose needed in the front yard. We have a splitter at the spigot at the house.

Well, we will when hubby disconnects the hose he put there to fill containers to take to the tote up the hill. I tried to take it off, but couldn't budge it.

 

[chicken opey]

DW had a 2:30 PT appointment. I went along and got some groceries while she had PT. Anymore I feel like I am shopping in Russia or some other foreign country. Shortages. 4 items on my list were not there. Got home and raised garage door and a big rat snake fell down. DW screamed. I had to dispatch it to satisfy her. I allow the rodent eater to live when DW does not know. How can a snake crawl to the top of a garage door trying to get in?

You are a very good husband!
My DH keeps the kings and rat snakes. If it slithers in front of me, it’s dead!
I just know they can climb which is not right at all!

 

[Sueby]

I have always called this Irish moss. It is in bloom now. Liked it when I was a kid. People had it growing in flagstone rock retaining walls. View attachment 3848243

I have this on the border of my garden & driveway. I think it's so pretty & it chokes out all the weeds. It creeps a lot but if it goes too far we just drive over it or step on it & it's gone. It's some type of sedum.

My EWO... I planted them a couple years ago & thought they all died last year, but this showed up this spring! They are huge!

 

[Nym]

That's what I was thinking too

30meters seems to be the longest extension cord in Australia, but dad used to join several to do welding jobs in situ.

 

[BReeder!]

Weeds... DW pulled a bunch today. I watered the garden after work. First pickle cucumber is ready to pick.

 

[BReeder!]

I have this on the border of my garden & driveway. I think it's so pretty & it chokes out all the weeds. It creeps a lot but if it goes too far we just drive over it or step on it & it's gone. It's some type of sedum.
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My EWO... I planted them a couple years ago & thought they all died last year, but this showed up this spring! They are huge!
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I have SO MANY EWO. They've completely taken over a 4'x4' area of a bed and continue trying to spread to the other half of the bed. I started thinking them out this year by giving some to my mother for her new garden. I could easily take out 4 or 5 times as many.

 

[Nym]

These pokers are over 5ft high - I love them and plan to fill the front area with them and agapanthus so as to minimise work. I grow a lot of winter weeds for the chooks out front as well. The orange is really vibrant now that it has started drizzling. It's fun watching the birds swinging around on the flower head.