What did you do in the garden today?

[lazy gardener]

Yes, you are right, Lazy Gardener - even if you can't be out digging in the ground, there's still things to do year round! It's almost an obsession with us gardeners, isn't it?

Perhaps an obsession. My DIL told me that she needed to stage a family intervention when she saw my stash of seeds, and then watched me rifling through them. Obsession, perhaps. Addiction. No. I can quit. Any. Time. I. Want. To. Seriously. People just don't understand, and it's them who have the problem. Besides, if seeds were addictive, we'd need a prescription to get them, right? Perish the thought. That sounds like Monsanto and patent rights thinking.

The seed company I order from allowed for free shipping a few months after you order. Just in case you forget something.
I've actually used that feature.

Company name please.

I caught the crappy raccoon that decimated my corn crop. Have a heart strikes again. 3 marshmallows and a container of water. Works every time.

I felt absolutely no remorse when I dispatched the dirty little thief. DH hauled the remains out to the lower forty for the varmints to enjoy. Later that day I saw the vultures circling the area and told them bon apatite.

Brilliant thinking on the water.

Somebody on the forum said that the trick is to put a container of water in with whatever bait you use. Raccoon want to wash their food before they eat it. I use either an old deli container, or an old can that canned meat comes in. I guess marshmallows are a treat they really like.

I've also read to take a can of cat food or tuna and punch holes in it with a triangular can opener. They have to pick it up to putter with it and wind up triggering the trap door.

I had the funniest thing happen tonight. I was locking up the birds and chasing one in the general direction of the coop, which took me near the fence parameter. I looked up and there was a young rabbit on the other side of the fence. Not 18 inches away from me. I walked towards it. It stood there staring at me. I told it to at least have the good graces to act afraid of me, even if it wasn't. It wasn't. It just sauntered away at a leisurely hop.

Anybody ever caught a rabbit in a Have a Heart trap?

Like the pierced can idea also.

My neighbors in TN caught a fox in their trap set for coons and let it go! It caused me lots of losses with the chickens.

Horrors. My neighbor came over to tell me that he finally bought a gun: .22. Then, he told me that the varmint ground hog was over at his house in his wood pile the other day. I asked him if he shot it... His response... "I took a picture of it!" Seriously? He has a garden also, and his garden is not fenced. This is the same neighbor who (several years ago) went out to take a pic of a coon that chased my CAR down the road. I hope he was wearing his Red Ball Jets that day, cause that coon chased him all the way home!

 

[chickmom3941]

Fence charger. No stupid questions, learning is good.

Oh, electric fence, then? Yeah, that should take care of the varmints!

Cap, aren't your chicks shipping today? Are you all set up for them?

Our baby chicks are a week old today, and doing very well with Bertha (our broody hen) taking care of them. They are just the cutest little things! Have only named one of them so far - "Little Peep", which is one of the silver laced wyandottes. She was the runt of the group, and didn't look so good when she first arrived, but she's doing really well now.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

I'm crawling around my soon to be former grow room inhaling too much dust. Getting my lights packed safely (yes I keep the original boxes & packing. Those things are $$$$!), dismantling the supports, organizing my organic supplements, cleaning and servicing everything to get it ready to move to the new location. Getting the new room emptied, cleaned, painted, and ready to set up. HE is helping shift things around. Going to take a while, but slack time in the garden now, so now's the time for it.

Outside humidity is so bad my pizza dough was like that homemade slime kids make! Had to keep adding flour and wound up with dough for 6 pizzas instead of 4!

Cap's coop is looking good! Mine is stalled till I can breathe without scuba gear outside.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oh, electric fence, then? Yeah, that should take care of the varmints!

Cap, aren't your chicks shipping today? Are you all set up for them?

Our baby chicks are a week old today, and doing very well with Bertha (our broody hen) taking care of them. They are just the cutest little things! Have only named one of them so far - "Little Peep", which is one of the silver laced wyandottes. She was the runt of the group, and didn't look so good when she first arrived, but she's doing really well now.

Yes, chicks shipping today!

 

[chickmom3941]

I'm crawling around my soon to be former grow room inhaling too much dust. Getting my lights packed safely (yes I keep the original boxes & packing. Those things are $$$$!), dismantling the supports, organizing my organic supplements, cleaning and servicing everything to get it ready to move to the new location. Getting the new room emptied, cleaned, painted, and ready to set up. HE is helping shift things around. Going to take a while, but slack time in the garden now, so now's the time for it.

Outside humidity is so bad my pizza dough was like that homemade slime kids make! Had to keep adding flour and wound up with dough for 6 pizzas instead of 4!

Cap's coop is looking good! Mine is stalled till I can breathe without scuba gear outside.

Lol - enjoy all those pizzas, girl! What kind of toppings are you putting on them?

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'm crawling around my soon to be former grow room inhaling too much dust. Getting my lights packed safely (yes I keep the original boxes & packing. Those things are $$$$!), dismantling the supports, organizing my organic supplements, cleaning and servicing everything to get it ready to move to the new location. Getting the new room emptied, cleaned, painted, and ready to set up. HE is helping shift things around. Going to take a while, but slack time in the garden now, so now's the time for it.

Outside humidity is so bad my pizza dough was like that homemade slime kids make! Had to keep adding flour and wound up with dough for 6 pizzas instead of 4!

Cap's coop is looking good! Mine is stalled till I can breathe without scuba gear outside.

Thanks, we have progress! DH put the windows in and we got 4 sheets of plywood up. I still don't understand how his brain works, LOL!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I guess need to get off my duff take a bowl out collect a few gourds for dinner baby back pork ribs smothered in sauce and seasoning oven baked probably potatoes baked with them as we have air conditioning fresh shortcake strawberries and raspberries for desert still need to pick blackberries for the year... back later

 

[NanaKat]

After a half inch of rain a day for the past 4 days and 3/4 inch last night we finally have some sunshine. The grass in the garden paths is growing rapidly, but the humidity is too high to get out there and weed wack around the beds. The grass is too wet to mow. So.....I'm catching up on a little reading and paperwork. Maybe this evening I can weed wack.
Am picking okra on a daily basis now...time to pickle some.

Susie has had two successful feedings today from an ice cream bucket instead of the bottle. Will try the yellow plastic flat side tonight. Eventually want her to come to the bucket when I call her. She has to make the transition so she can go to a pasture near the barn. There she can play with other calves and learn herd social skills....might even learn to steal milk from a distracted momma...and still get her bucket feedings.

Still have about 40 pounds of tomatoes to process...will make more soup starter and have a recipe for tomato jam to try.

 

[MommaHen2Many]

We have several times. The adults liked layer pellets laced with carrot strips. A few weeks ago we caught two young rabbits together using a pear an a squirrel sized trap. Guess they were running together.
Rabbits we transport to a new location, but coons, etc get dispatched.

Hi All, i've been lurking & reading your garden thread. We have rabbits...too many of them. We are on the "edge" of suburbia with about 6 acres. One day driving home this week, a lady & her teen age daughter were parked on the front of our property. They were wandering in & out of the trees, feeding the wild rabbits from a HUGE bag of carrots they bought at the store. I wanted to tell them that healthy rabbits will just breed better, and I'd be glad to trap all of them and take them to their back yard!!! My garden is fenced with metal fencing, and deer fencing 8' high...just trying to keep my food MINE!! Picked peas, tomatoes, sorrel, and fed the chickens the raspberry stragglers! Froze some blueberries.

 

[lazy gardener]

Did you speak to the tresspassers? I'd let them know that some of those rabbits are rabid. Might just make them think twice about taking liberties on your property.