Yesterday's pickings
And big boy finally ripened. Weighed in at almost 1-1/2 pounds. Will take center stage at tomorrow night's dinner
Posted on 09/13/2013 1:04:36 PM PDT by greeneyes
I heard that!LOL
We’ll be married 35 years next month and when he has to go out of town for work I miss him like crazy. Do lots to pass the time. The ONLY 2 good things about him going is no ironing and I get the car while he is gone. Actually 3 - I also lose a few pounds.
LOL. I know what you mean. Been married 48 years. House just isn’t right with out the man.LOL
For the critters in my yard I spread peanut butter on a piece of lettuce and slip it in the trap. Peanut Butter is a great bait because of it’s aroma. You could also spread it on peanuts in the shell...
“Peanut Butter is a great bait because of it’s aroma.”
I used peanut butter but probably didn’t use enough. I’m redoing that and will put trap back out.
Had baby Sylvia Monday evening so the gardening is going to have to wait. The hot peppers are growing like crazy too!
LOL...
WOW! First year, you learned a primary lesson that some never understand in a lifetime of killing plants, while involuntarily feeding the pests & vermin.
Speaking of pests and vermin, I shotgunned a squirrel off the roof today. It was trying to get at the drying sunflower heads under the porch roof, and ran up the wall when I stepped out the door. It made the mistake of sitting upright on the peak to chitter at me. Low power shells with small shot, and aiming a little high = no roof damage.
These buggers have chewed their way into the attic several times over the years, and are nearly inedible .
The red squirrel is a small arboreal squirrel, smaller than the gray squirrel or the fox squirrel, and weighing an average of only 11 ounces... they also taste terrible; nothing like a grey squirrel.
The article fails to mention they love the taste of electrical cable insulation; and that they love to chew holes in walls to enter barns and houses, then make nests by tearing up attic insulation.
It occurs to me that, depending on the traps design, if the squirrel manages to tip it over on its top, the door may automatically open, as that is how they can be designed to release the critter.
I discovered that the hard way with one of mine; it must be secured to prevent a frantic critter from escaping. Once that happens it is much harder to entice them back into it.
Yesterday's pickings
And big boy finally ripened. Weighed in at almost 1-1/2 pounds. Will take center stage at tomorrow night's dinner
I thought these wouldn’t do anything until next spring but I was out there watering a bit ago and saw something green under that row cover, lifted it up and there is an onion about two inches tall. I need to get that row cover off and let that area get more sun but that is close to the back wall where the squirrels are on the other side of that wall. Maybe I’ll put double netting over that planter and a tall stake which I have to hold the net off the soil so they can’t reach through the net.
The squirrel cage is now loaded with peanut butter.
Are you talking about the occasional plants that actually grow a round seed pod on the plant above the ground?
If that is what you are talking about, I wouldn't use them as they, in that state, are totally poisonous. I did research on this phenomenon and the experts say don't use them, get rid of them. And, if you saw these things on your potato plant and you have pets or children, put on throw away gloves, get them off and dispose of them where pets/children couldn't get to them.
I know there is some older guy on the net who plants them and I listened to his whole UTube presentation. I still would listen to the pros who say don't use them.
This trap design can be a two door trap or a one door trap. One has to move a strap from a top hook to disengage that second door which is the one used to let the animal out. I have disengaged that door so it will not open unless I engage that strap again to open it.
The trap is fairly heavy but I suppose it could be turned over. I’ll see what happens.
“Gardening is a mental and physical understanding of one’s surroundings and how they work.”
I’m kind of an analytical thinker - how does it work? If I know “how” something works, I can make it work better for me and not screw up as much.
I love to see that produce. I have bush bean plants growing, maybe a foot tall and I would consider it a victory if I get one bean pod as I’ve never grown one before.
I’d like to grind this stuff to a finer mesh.
The little coffee grinder works, up to a point.
THis is really the first time I’ve had luck. I did a lot of feeding this year. And the weather’s been with me. :-)
getting cold here in Jenison. Heading to Mackinac next week for the convention. Antrim County Republican chairman says it is REALLY cold up there right now. May have frost.
Just WoW!!!
What a beauty! I’m jealous. LOL
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