Let me know what it is and if it works, I’m thinking Dave has the right idea, sone would call that over reacting, I call it a logical well thought out plan to destroy a varmit
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Let me know what it is and if it works, I’m thinking Dave has the right idea, sone would call that over reacting, I call it a logical well thought out plan to destroy a varmit
So is it a 'Trap, a Poison, a Bait Station? A combination of all? Just wondering. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun
I have no issue with killing varmints and traps are relatively selective.
I have an issue with poison as it is not selective in what it kills.
We bought some flowers and a tomato plant. Since my lemon tree is either dead or recovering, I am looking forward to some tomatos at least. Got the 2nd of 4 beds sodded and mulched. Found a guy who makes swings, so that is installed.
Cup holders for it arrived to-day!
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Tom, I'm sure you've researched about whether your lemon tree is dead, heavily damaged or slightly damaged.
Since up north here there's no citrus trees at all so I know nothing. Should it be blooming now? When do you normally prune?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
I got no problem with poison , traps, god damned Gatling gun, if it is f*$$(ng with my yard it’s dead! Selective or not, mole vole cat or stray dog, it’s my yard, hell I keep guns for the 2 legged type if it’s in my yard without permission. “GET OFF MY LAWN!”
After my surgery next week I may have a guard tower built so I can mount my MA Duece
Roy, I put off pruning it at Valentines because I knew the freeze was coming. It must have had 300 blooms on it.
I have since pruned it and have the AC drain running to it via a garden hose. Wood is green and stiff.
I will give it a year or so. It may come back from the roots, I suppose.
If it works on moles, voles and chipmunk, I'm in for the brand nameQuote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun
Nice looking corner. Well done!Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
Mole/vole if it is dead from the poison and your favorite dog eats it your dog is dead also.:shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by tcrideshd
Almost all Rodenticide used now days is a Vitamin K based blockerQuote:
Originally Posted by 32t
It is nearly harmless for secondary poisonings, even if the dog or cat gets hold of one a simple 21 day regime of Vitamin K negates the effect Go ahead ask me how I know this :)
Thanks, Dave. A bit at a time we are recovering. It was almost like we were in denial..Quote:
Originally Posted by rolodave
It deep-froze regularly decades ago. I should have filled the kitchen dining area with plants for some days and still had most of it.
Was a nice, blooming Plumeria in that pot. Will it come back? It has before! Fingers-crossed.
4-O'cloks and Elephant ears are popping up. Cannons too.
Happened to see this today---
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Was watching two sand hill cranes. Never saw them here before.
Of course, both batteries for the camera were dead.
Will try for pics if they hang around
And here I thought I was the last person on earth to use a digital camera to take pictures instead of a smart phone:shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by rolodave
Go around Grand Island Nebraska if you want to watch them. They migrate in an hour glass pattern and concentrate around there. They rent bird blinds for watching not hunting.Quote:
Originally Posted by rolodave
It was 1991 or so when I was down there to watch them. What a scene!
I guess my neighbor (life long resident) and i were the only people not knowing about the sandhill cranes on this area.
From all accounts, they are rather common around the marshes. This pair I spotted are definitely tending a nest so we should see them most of the summer.
Big Walla Walla next to a quarter
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Hey Roy
When do pull the seed pods
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This guy does a better job of explaining than I can plus you have pictures!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp7f9O5mLQE
This is a common sight around these parts.
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The growers pull the onions, let them dry and then replant them to raise seed. Here's a picture of them doing so. Notice that they don't leave any space, all of the energy will be used to push up the stalk and for seed heads.
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I hope this helps.
Sandhill cranes in the yard
The babies are almost fully grown
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There's a young guy up the block who I talk with when walking Travis and come to find out he took over the hydraulic shop that was in Dayton where I grew up. He makes the 70 mile round trip every day but he says he doesn't mind.
Anyway, he does a lot of container gardening and I noticed some big blue ones and I asked him where he got them. Seems that he gets them from his father in-law and they contain some kind of horse feed or something. I offered to buy one as I had a project that would require a pretty deep pot and with me a bit on the cheap side I figured they would be much less than store bought containers.
He said I could have one! The only ones he had that wasn't in use he'd turned upside down and use to stain the boards of his fence. I told him no worries and brought it home.
One of the local ranch and home stores was closing out their gardening things like big bags of steer manure, potting soil and such so I bought two big bags of potting soil and two big bags of steer manure. I dumped some of each in and mixed it well then repeated. Once full I planted my project.
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I was really late with this as I'm sure it should have been planted in the spring. But I'm hoping that I'll be able to use part of it Christmas or New Years with a rib roast----that's a hint to what it is.
I should be able to break off a chunk and it should send out new growth.
I planted a Walla Walla Sweet for seed in the same planter. It should be coming up also. One of the oldest families to grow WW Sweets came up with a RED WW Sweet. I may pick on of those up and see if I can get it to produce seed. I'll let you know.
Even though I was late planting looks like with a little luck the horseradish just might make it.
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Squash, cuke's and zuchinni starting to overwhelm us
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Us to. I’m giving away more than half f ours to neighbors and friends, been eating all the blueberries though, I want them all!
I eat blueberries every day. Cost is irrelevant.
This s true, even when my bushes aren’t producing we buy them, it’s so cool to walk out on my patio and pluck em off and eat
I have to find a spot to plant a bushQuote:
Originally Posted by tcrideshd
Do you keep yours well cropped? they get big
We have 2 Rabbiteyes and 2 high bush, both of out variety gets to about 6’. After they are mature, in the fall I get rid of the oldest branches that are getting brown and hard, leave all new growth. New branches seem to be good for about 2-3 years before you prune. Then I just go around the bush and take out branches that didn’t have berries..
I think mine don’t get too tall cause we wrap them in Tulle to keep birds off. Tends to bend the branches downward, but works really good, till the berries are blue I just spray them with grape coolaid, that’s right coolaid grape. It works. Birds don’t like it. Look it up. First year we let the berries go, started harvesting the second full year, for 5 weeks she gets about 3 quarts every week
Oh and Dave find you a spot that gets decent sun, mine gets shade in the late afternoon maybe 6 hours direct sun, I use a mix of composite, vermiculite, and soil, then planted them and mulched, try to water once a week at least for sweet berries.
Another large Walla Walla with a baseball
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The pickles are ready for the coming year. Bread and Butter, Dill
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Yellow squash and coffee cup
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Walla Walla seeds drying and dried
I will plant 4 dozen in September
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Dave, you typically have harsher winters than Walla Walla, You might consider getting some seeds planted now and then some in September.
I believe that around here, they want to be done planting before the 15th of September.
Just a thought
Will do��
Got plenty!
