not sure what i'll do tomorrow but it will either
be the tomatoes or the peppers.
a nice gentle rain this morning which was needed and
appreciated. no frosts in the forecast but a few nights
will be down into the lower 40sF. i think the tomatoes
and peppers can survive that so i'm not going to worry
about it and a fair bit of rain too in the next week's
forecast. it makes it easier on me if there is rains
coming.
songbird
songbird wrote:
not sure what i'll do tomorrow but it will either
be the tomatoes or the peppers.
a nice gentle rain this morning which was needed and
appreciated. no frosts in the forecast but a few nights
will be down into the lower 40sF. i think the tomatoes
and peppers can survive that so i'm not going to worry
about it and a fair bit of rain too in the next week's
forecast. it makes it easier on me if there is rains
coming.
songbird
Mine's basically planted but I'm well south of you. Surpisingly
tomatoes still getting bigger green ones. I guess cropping next week.
I thought some this week.
Mine's basically planted but I'm well south of you. Surpisingly
tomatoes still getting bigger green ones. I guess cropping next week.
I thought some this week.
cshenk wrote:
...plans that didn't happen...
Mine's basically planted but I'm well south of you. Surpisingly
tomatoes still getting bigger green ones. I guess cropping next
week. I thought some this week.
i'm not quite understanding this post of yours. i may be
too tired... :)
today i ended up going outside to weed having decided to
hold off on planting until the next break in the weather.
the garden i weeded has needed it done for a month or more
and i just wasn't able to get out there so now it is done
and the rains have come along to give all the gardens some
water.
i only thought it was going to take me a few hours to
weed, but it was such a nice day that i took my time and
enjoyed myself completely and it took almost four hours
and then i did a few other things in other gardens like
picking some strawberries, weeding out some bedstraw and
burying some banana peels and other veggie scraps.
then after resting a bit i had to go bury another chipmunk
which was caught in a rat trap using a little peanut butter
and a raisin. i've gotten my money's worth out of that
raisin as it is the fifth chipmunk i caught with it. i
did reset the trap but now that it is raining it might
melt away or the trap might get ruined. my brother bought
us some bucket top flip traps to use for the chipmunks but
so far they have only caught one. when we get overrun with
chipmunks it can get pretty crazy around here. one year
i caught over 50 of them in a few weeks. so this year is
quite tame in comparison to that. the flip traps will also
work for mice so i'm hoping to get them reset and reloaded
with bait in some new locations where mice are known to
run. now that they're getting rained on and have aired
out for a few days i think they will only gain in effective-
ness...
songbird
On 5/26/24 08:58, cshenk wrote:
songbird wrote:
not sure what i'll do tomorrow but it will either
be the tomatoes or the peppers.
a nice gentle rain this morning which was needed and
appreciated. no frosts in the forecast but a few nights
will be down into the lower 40sF. i think the tomatoes
and peppers can survive that so i'm not going to worry
about it and a fair bit of rain too in the next week's
forecast. it makes it easier on me if there is rains
coming.
songbird
Mine's basically planted but I'm well south of you. Surpisingly
tomatoes still getting bigger green ones. I guess cropping next
week. I thought some this week.
Got my tomatoes in, eggplant in, peppers in. Yesterday
I got my seeds in too: cucumbers and zucchini.
T wrote:
On 5/26/24 08:58, cshenk wrote:
songbird wrote:
not sure what i'll do tomorrow but it will either
be the tomatoes or the peppers.
a nice gentle rain this morning which was needed and
appreciated. no frosts in the forecast but a few nights
will be down into the lower 40sF. i think the tomatoes
and peppers can survive that so i'm not going to worry
about it and a fair bit of rain too in the next week's
forecast. it makes it easier on me if there is rains
coming.
songbird
Mine's basically planted but I'm well south of you. Surpisingly
tomatoes still getting bigger green ones. I guess cropping next
week. I thought some this week.
Got my tomatoes in, eggplant in, peppers in. Yesterday
I got my seeds in too: cucumbers and zucchini.
I'm in Virginia beach. Tou must be south of me?
Carol
Good! We are getting really loud thunder storms, off and on all
weekend.
For me, it's Norwat rats. Occasional squirrels but they mostly ignore
the veggies.
On 5/27/24 09:50, cshenk wrote:
T wrote:
On 5/26/24 08:58, cshenk wrote:
songbird wrote:
not sure what i'll do tomorrow but it will either
be the tomatoes or the peppers.
a nice gentle rain this morning which was needed and
appreciated. no frosts in the forecast but a few nights
will be down into the lower 40sF. i think the tomatoes
and peppers can survive that so i'm not going to worry
about it and a fair bit of rain too in the next week's
forecast. it makes it easier on me if there is rains
coming.
songbird
Mine's basically planted but I'm well south of you. Surpisingly tomatoes still getting bigger green ones. I guess cropping next
week. I thought some this week.
Got my tomatoes in, eggplant in, peppers in. Yesterday
I got my seeds in too: cucumbers and zucchini.
I'm in Virginia beach. Tou must be south of me?
Carol
Northwest Nevada, zone 6B
cshenk wrote:
...
For me, it's Norwat rats. Occasional squirrels but they mostly
ignore the veggies.
there are not many squirrels here because we don't have
oak trees in the immediate area. a few hundred feet and
there are a few but the hawks tend to get any squirrels
if they are in the open for long.
i've gotten three more chipmunks and finally could not
find the raisin i was using to bait them - had to replace
it.
groundhogs do a lot more damage here to the gardens
inside the fences as they can get through or over that
fencing (Mom bought the wrong kind and i've not got the
funds right now to put up some different fencing that
would exclude them).
today we had a fairly young deer come through and i
was able to watch it for a while until it got to a spot
where i could scare it off. i don't want to scare them
when they might panic and run into a fence. at one
point it was looking into some pieces of mirrors we have
on one of our yard art works. it was looking and then
sniffing at it. i hope it doesn't come back. we've
not had much of any deer tracks around recently so i'm
glad they've kept away. i don't want any of them to
think that this is a spot to hang out. we had a family
of three hang out here two years ago and they ate about
everything i had planted in some gardens that were not
fenced.
songbird
On 5/28/2024 11:04 AM, cshenk wrote:
songbird wrote:
cshenk wrote:
...
For me, it's Norwat rats. Occasional squirrels but they mostly
ignore the veggies.
there are not many squirrels here because we don't have
oak trees in the immediate area. a few hundred feet and
there are a few but the hawks tend to get any squirrels
if they are in the open for long.
i've gotten three more chipmunks and finally could not
find the raisin i was using to bait them - had to replace
it.
groundhogs do a lot more damage here to the gardens
inside the fences as they can get through or over that
fencing (Mom bought the wrong kind and i've not got the
funds right now to put up some different fencing that
would exclude them).
today we had a fairly young deer come through and i
was able to watch it for a while until it got to a spot
where i could scare it off. i don't want to scare them
when they might panic and run into a fence. at one
point it was looking into some pieces of mirrors we have
on one of our yard art works. it was looking and then
sniffing at it. i hope it doesn't come back. we've
not had much of any deer tracks around recently so i'm
glad they've kept away. i don't want any of them to
think that this is a spot to hang out. we had a family
of three hang out here two years ago and they ate about
everything i had planted in some gardens that were not
fenced.
songbird
I've heard deer can be quite a pest for gardeners! They are in
parts of VB, but not where I am. Even if they were, the 6ft wood
fence would stop them. We also get bears from time to time, but
not near me.
My father described watching deer, just standing next to the fence,
suddenly hopping over the fence in one motion. He had to go up to
8-10 feet or so to keep them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCvl82Fk0o
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