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Ok Comboomer posted:To clarify—there are guidelines in many places on the hole/mesh size for bird netting to prevent wildlife kills. Oh that could be it, the mesh I've seen here is pretty fine, probably <=5mm holes
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Progressive JPEG posted:For me personally putting up netting is too much trouble beyond individual beds and I haven't worried about it too much. As an alternate strategy I've planted out some mulberries in the hopes that the birds will find them more attractive and gorge on them instead - or worst case I've heard mulberries are good for keeping chickens under. Pakistani Long mulberries are very tasty and huge, I have two sitting next to an Illinois Everbearing mulberry and they seem to cross pollinate fruit amazingly. Even if the birds don't like them, they are worth having around for yourself.
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Pretty sure I have a groundhog somewhere around my house that’s destroying my garden beds. My tulips and all of my irises are toast. How do you get rid of these things????
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Apr 17, 2022 23:07
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I'm pretty sure that plastic explosives in the shape of friendly woodland creatures have been successful in the past.
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Weather reports have our lows at 37 for the next three nights. NWS has a frost advisory out for areas a little too close to home. So I guess I'm covering the tomatoes and peppers tonight. It feels like overkill... plus I have understudies of all the planted varieties still chilling in my basement. But I also know I would be pissed if I got lazy and they died. Berry chat makes me feel very cavalier about my new bushes. I was studying all the best local varieties for my area and got starts in the ground March... where they got blasted by cold and I know not what else and look pretty stunted. So while at Home Depot I just picked up a couple random chonkers without doing any research. Sweethearts and another highbush variety.
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Bi-la kaifa posted:I'm pretty sure that plastic explosives in the shape of friendly woodland creatures have been successful in the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jvcNrjM_F4
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Bloody Cat Farm posted:Pretty sure I have a groundhog somewhere around my house that’s destroying my garden beds. My tulips and all of my irises are toast. How do you get rid of these things????
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Apr 17, 2022 23:25
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I am so very angry. I may blow this animal up Not really though
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Bloody Cat Farm posted:Pretty sure I have a groundhog somewhere around my house that’s destroying my garden beds. My tulips and all of my irises are toast. How do you get rid of these things???? My next-door neighbor has a fenced-in garden and gardens in raised beds. She also has gopher traps set underneath the raised beds, which she matter-of-factly checked when she was showing me around the garden. You can't repel groundhogs/gophers/rodents from delicious tasty food. You can just make it impossible for them to get it.
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Groggy nard posted:Pakistani Long mulberries are very tasty and huge, I have two sitting next to an Illinois Everbearing mulberry and they seem to cross pollinate fruit amazingly. Even if the birds don't like them, they are worth having around for yourself. Oh neat I'll see if I can find any here. Mainly been getting white mulberries but recently got a couple of a pendulata variety to try as well. Bloody Cat Farm posted:Pretty sure I have a groundhog somewhere around my house that’s destroying my garden beds. My tulips and all of my irises are toast. How do you get rid of these things???? If you needed any additional justification for getting rid of them, they can also be bad for your foundation and/or septic if they dig around there too much.
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Bloody Cat Farm posted:I am so very angry. I may blow this animal up Not really though Just make sure to not also go golfing in a thunder storm. I think if it’s a groundhog or moles you need traps and relocation. If that fails the woodland creature shaped explosives may be your only hope.
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Jhet posted:I think if it’s a groundhog or moles you need traps and relocation. If that fails the woodland creature shaped explosives may be your only hope.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:You plant your bulbs in cages. No, really. You can make your own or buy them commercially; google "bulb cage". https://www.instructables.com/Gardeners-underground-bulb-cage/ https://www.amazon.com/VOLE-KING-Plant-Baskets-Gallon/dp/B06XHP5T6W/ Thanks for this! I guess I could make makeshift cylindrical cages above ground to protect the leaves/flowers as well as doing this. Jhet posted:Just make sure to not also go golfing in a thunder storm. This is what I wanted to do, but I did some research and… Arsenic Lupin posted:Relocation is not a humane way to dispose of rodents. A rodent dropped in a new location where it doesn't know where the food sources are, and doesn't have a pre-established warren, is predator chow.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Relocation is not a humane way to dispose of rodents. A rodent dropped in a new location where it doesn't know where the food sources are, and doesn't have a pre-established warren, is predator chow. Fair. I misread the part where some kill traps are restricted here for moles to mean that you only use catch and release. It just means you use other traps and then kill them. I’m hoping that I’ve dissuaded them mostly myself, but I have a feeling they’re just hiding under the trees and waiting to dig up the 100sq ft of grass I have again.
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We set off a bunch of hilariously illegal explosives every new years and just like that, our mole problem relocated. I shot the last two squirrels we had tearing up the deck. No quarter.
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mischief posted:No quarter. That's me with the Eastern cottontail rabbits here. They're invasive and don't belong here. They should probably not have litters in my garden anymore.
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Some Achillea deciding to bloom in the afternoon sun a couple days after I brought it home also, re: berrychat, some native strawberries from today - v. good 
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Relocation is not a humane way to dispose of rodents. A rodent dropped in a new location where it doesn't know where the food sources are, and doesn't have a pre-established warren, is predator chow. That sounds like perfect rodent disposal.
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Fozzy The Bear posted:That sounds like perfect rodent disposal. Using kill traps means that you have to confront killing an animal, which is why I haven't done it so far in my life. There are no clean answers.
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Was it in this thread that someone shared their really nice seed starting trays? I remember them being made from a fairly rugged plastic and being a little on the pricey side. They had individual cells, but they were staggered in their arrangement.
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My tomatoes are fruiting like crazy. I expect that from the one that produces tiny little marble-sized tomatoes, because it only stopped for a few weeks in the dead of winter, but the "roma" that also survived the winter is going gangbusters too. I've got some mustard greens that I want to let flower and set seed, but then I'll pull those and plant some warm weather stuff. Other than the roma, most of what's in my garden is self-seeding. I have some beans coming up in various places (though I do plant some pole beans, too) and the same is true for the perilla, basil, pumpkin, culantro, curry tree, epazote and a half dozen edible "weeds" that I've managed to transplant from foraging trips - pellitory, Florida bettony, three or four little mustards, dandelions, nettles (mistakes were made) and before long the purslane will be coming in...
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Thanks to having 4 1000lb fertilizer makers out back, my herb/veggie plants are looking particularly happy this year. Cherry Tomatoes  Herbs   Spaghetti squash  I scooped about 20 seeds out of the last spaghetti squash I ate and every one of them sprouted. I excavated a little behind the planters and filled it with my compost. Once the seedlings came out, I transplanted them in with the intention of letting the vines run. We'll see how it goes. I don't want to till up the area yet.
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Jhet posted:That's me with the Eastern cottontail rabbits here. They're invasive and don't belong here. They should probably not have litters in my garden anymore. We had viral hemorrhagic disease go through the island's European rabbit population a couple of years ago. No one has any idea how the disease got here.  No Europeans anymore, but the cottontails are doing fine and ate my sprouting peas a couple of weeks ago so I have some fence work to do.European black squirrels made it up to here in 2014, since then they've been building up their population and the native red squirrels are getting scarcer. A black squirrel decided to strip one of my small apple trees last fall. nbd since we had lots from the other trees but somewhere on the hill there's a laundry basket's worth of rotting apples hidden in stumps or whatever they do with them. From the discussion in this thread I'm terrified now they're going to develop a taste for my garden. 10' deer fence won't keep them out.
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rojay posted:Other than the roma, most of what's in my garden is self-seeding. Most of our compost is horse manure based and we've run into problems with pyralid herbicide residue inhibiting germination and development of some species so I had to stop using our home-made compost in soil block and seeding tray mixtures. Last year I bought compost for that purpose, this year I kept a small composter separate with just househould and garden waste in it. Which means the waste from canning tomatoes and cleaning up the tomato beds. Which means I'm constantly weeding seedling tomatoes out of my soil blocks this spring. rojay posted:... dandelions, nettles (mistakes were made) and before long the purslane will be coming in... Yep. Do not leave a little Sheep's Sorrel for your salads in amongst the artichokes. I deeply regret that decision now. Supposedly the beach kale happily growing in the seaweed mulching the asparagus is edible. I'll have to give it a try sometime.
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Hexigrammus posted:We had viral hemorrhagic disease go through the island's European rabbit population a couple of years ago. No one has any idea how the disease got here. We just have mostly grey squirrels in the city that I see. Which I guess is okay because they’re dumb enough to get caught by the dogs in the neighborhood, but they don’t seem to eat too much except the cones in my spruce tree and the maple seeds. The rabbits mostly stay away except when they’re looking for a place to have their litter. Our dog is a good enough deterrent the rest of the year, but I can’t leave a litter of rabbits just there where my dog will definitely eat it. Killing rodents is in his genetics, but I’ll do it to keep him from extra visits to the vet. They left my chard and cabbage alone all winter, so it’s not really that bad. I don’t know if marigolds actually do anything, but I like them and tend to put them around in what I think are strategic spots. Could be all BS, but they’re pretty and that’s enough for me to keep doing it.
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I pruned my Meyer lemon. They say that Meyer’s lemon is nearly thornless, but that is deeply misleading. It is true that there are branches and shoots without thorns. However, that only lowers a person’s guard and opens them up to attack by the substantial thorns that do exist. The wounds received from such a tree are like those from a cursed weapon, painful and slow to heal, though not appearing infected.
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That's relatable as hell. The previous owner here planted a decorative pomegranate that gave the exact same wounds and I was thrilled when I finally ripped it completely out.
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Anyone have tips for moving starts out under a row cover instead of them living inside? Or will the row cover be enough to keep my tomatoes and warm weather plants happy enough? It's not freezing, but it's still 40s overnight.
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Platystemon posted:The wounds received from such a tree are like those from a cursed weapon, painful and slow to heal, though not appearing infected. I got within a few feet of one of the Opuntias in my garden last weekend and it was very quick to remind me to mind my own loving business. I didn't even touch it 
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Platystemon posted:I pruned my Meyer lemon. As someone who just bought a Meyer lemon based on this thread, appreciate the heads up. My Mexican lime tree may be dying but this lemon plant is thriving. Reminds me of my Dragon fruit cactus. One of its thorns scraped my skin, didn't even break it, and it produced a horrible itching allergic reaction that took a day to go away.
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I heartily recommend leather rose gauntlets that go to the elbow. I have also found -- your mileage may vary -- that wiping rose scratches with alcohol immediately after they happen helps avoid the immune reaction or whatever.
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Platystemon posted:I also have some “hoosier banana” activity (i.e. Asimina triloba, the common paw paw). wtf it appears to have set fruit  This isn’t supposed to happen. There are no other paw paw around for pollenizers, and it’s supposedly self-incompatible. It doesn’t even have large numbers on its side to excuse flukes. There were I think four flowers total on the tree.
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Found some lettuce on a walk yesterday
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Platystemon posted:wtf it appears to have set fruit life, uh, finds a way
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i am harry posted:Found some lettuce on a walk yesterday Guerrilla gardening for the win?
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I've fallen in a gardening hole, ELP. My lil Peach Sorbet blueberry bush (twigs) is in the pot, I've ordered a pH tester, I've been watering it with filtered water until my water testing kit arrives (but still really tempted to get distilled water anyway), now I'm trying to find pine needle mulch for the pots. Someone tell me I'm going overboard.
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Pine needles don’t do much for pH. Don’t bother.
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Can we talk tomato trellises/supports? What works the best? I tried the Florida weave last year.
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I am lazy and much prefer cages.
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Bloody Cat Farm posted:Can we talk tomato trellises/supports? What works the best? I tried the Florida weave last year. If you don't like the weave or cages, I've seen people have good results taking some cattle fencing and sticking it on a heavy duty and deeply driven stake (2x2). You can loosely tie it to the fence at the beginning of the season and weave it through to grow on both sides of it.
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