What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

@weefarmersarah here it is. I washed it to get the decades of dust off, and it has one coat of mineral oil on it just so I could check for cracks and see what I was dealing with. Now I'll scrub it down, scrub it again with peroxide, then lightly sand and then seal with butcherblock oil and wax, then I can use it again. You mix and rise directly in the trough. There are Youtube videos on how to use them. I like the hermitage ones.
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As for spacers. I use quart stir sticks from the paint department of home depot. 98 cents for like 20 of them, or some such craziness. I put them in a pocket and use my trimmers to notch a "v" in each end and use them near the trunk to get the right angle. I get a shot of that, when I go out later this afternoon.

The bread trough is beautiful. Thank you. How clever to use the stir sticks. Awesome.

 

[BReeder!]

Garden advice needed!
Zone 4a
I've got a large raised bed garden. My biggest pest problems are mice getting at the tomatoes and porcupine destroying everything else. My plan is to use electric poultry netting for the porkies. I've trapped & relocated (didn't know that was a violation) and shot too many to count. Those little buggers, in addition to costing me $$$ due to dogs getting into them, will take a single bite out of every squash, pumpkin, eggplant, and corn plant.
Question: I want to plant something in a recently cleared field. Can you think of any veggie that porcupine won't want to eat? I really don't want to buy any more fencing this year!

Any thoughts would be appreciated. I'm ordering seeds today- starting many plants indoors around March 15, and transplant outside around Memorial day.

I don't know about the porkies. However, the mice you simply need to trap, trap and keep trapping. You could consider baiting mice too. That's a personal choice, just be certain to consider the impact it may have to other animals (your own and wild) in the area. I avoid poison in the garden and coop, but will use it close to the house in bait boxes that only allow small animals (mice and the like) to get to the bait. This way I avoid getting poison in my garden soil or poultry runs. If mice come around the garden and coop (and they do), I use traps placed where our animals and children cannot get to them.

 

[WthrLady]

I use sticky traps in mini mink boxes around the property. No poisons here. This mice were out of control last year and earlier this winter. You should see our kill board.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Gardeners Mother nature is teasing us again
Sun is out and dry but she asked me to hold her beer

 

[NHMountainMan]

I don't know about the porkies. However, the mice you simply need to trap, trap and keep trapping. You could consider baiting mice too. That's a personal choice, just be certain to consider the impact it may have to other animals (your own and wild) in the area. I avoid poison in the garden and coop, but will use it close to the house in bait boxes that only allow small animals (mice and the like) to get to the bait. This way I avoid getting poison in my garden soil or poultry runs. If mice come around the garden and coop (and they do), I use traps placed where our animals and children cannot get to them.

I don't like poison - but every morning when I water, I have to empty every spring mousetrap I have. I don't even make a dent in the mouse population.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have 2 outside kitties.. 2 big dogs that will also kill a mouse

 

[Yowza Wowza]

Hi everyone, just popping in to ask a question! I’m not a gardener, or know my plants, so it would be of great help if anyone can help me figure out what these little orange berries are. I live in central California and I have never seen these little items before...

 

[NHMountainMan]

We have 2 outside kitties.. 2 big dogs that will also kill a mouse

What type of big dogs are mouse killers??

 

[pennyJo1960]

Possible Apricots

 

[pennyJo1960]

What type of big dogs are mouse killers??

One is our Labrador other is our Mareema Sheepdog first time they took it from one of the cats .. we also have moles... I will use my walking stick to find the whole in the mound .. they get them from the yard also