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I grow tates two different ways. Here outside my house, I use large containers and found out last year I can get 2 crops a year from my pots. I also grow taters in the soil at my sons house to store for during the winter. I have very little tater bug problems in my pot plated spuds. I attribute...

Everybody has to make their own choices as whether or not to use Spinosad in their gardens. I spray my taters late evening so it has plenty of time to dry before the bees become active. in fact the neighbor raises bees right across the road from my tater patch and I havent killed off any of his...

You said without spraying, best bet I can think of would be to buy a few ducks and fence them in with your taters. They willl eat the heck out of the bugs and shouldnt eat the tater plants. My personal favorite is to use spinosad spray. I use a garden sprayer. It is organic certified by omri and...

My squirrel comitted suicide. Found him ran over at the end of the driveway. Drove around the curve and found a dead deer splattered in the road. Looks like the local drivers are taking care of my varmit problems

Well, I planted my cabbage plants an put a net around them. That should last until the plants get big enough the squirrels wont hurt them. I set 2 of the large victor rat traps, baited with peanutbutter, but no catches yet. Chicken got out today and made a bee line straight to the bed, netting...

I ended up buying a couple of big rat traps. I have them baited with peanut butter and setting right next to the cabbage plants. I also have a bloody finger from tripping the trap. I dont really have a lot of squirrels running around. I have a big hawk that seems to keep the numbers down. My...

Squirrel has already eaten 5 of my 6 broccli plants. and has started on my cabbage plants. I cant shoot him because of the location of my beds and the neighbors house. any direction I aim I am pointing directly at someones house, the neighbor or mine, or mu sheds or my shop. I caught a squirrel...

BIL is hatching me a few, due this weekend. I gave him 1 1/2 dozen black copper maran eggs and 1/2dozen of my free hen eggs. I only have one bc maran rooster so I am interested how the free hen chicks turn out. I lost my white leghorn hen to a injury. Went to gather eggs and she was huddled in...

My bet is rabbits. I can see some impression in the soil, but cant make out tracks. Not ruleing out cutworms, but more likely rabbits. I did get a picture of the neighbors cat and havent lost anymore plants since, SO! Update, camera just went off and I got a pic of a squirrel carrying off one...

I planted my "supposed" to be Cabbage plants a few days ago. I kept thinking these plants dont look like cabbage and I know I picked cabbage from the plant trays at the garden center. Turns out they where broccli. Dont look like it is going to matter as something is eating my plants one at a...

I have a buddy with a green house that built his own drip system. He took it a little further than just a drip. First he placed a tote in one corner of the greenhouse. In the tote he filled it with fish (bream). He added a small pump that pumps water to some float trays. The water flows from the...

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Just a suggestion based on some of my mistakes. When making a raised bed or using pots or planting bags, one needs to provide a way for the planters to retain moisture. With grow bags and pots, I have found that not placing any holes for water to drain less than about three inches up from the...

Quit crying about 7 pages, I just got caught up to here and am still over 100 pages behind.

The wheel chair motors are gear drive and you can adjust the travel speed with a vfd. They also run off 12 or 24V. You can also adjust the chain drive depending on what size sprocket you choose. you can mount the motors on the saw carriage and install limit switches to automaticly stop the...

My carriage drive will utilize wheel chair motors. I found 2 new old stock ones on ebay so I bought both of them. I am thinking about using one to lift the carriage and one to pull it. I stole the ideal off a youtuber, dont remember his name and couldnt find the video. The guy listed the...

I got my plowing done wednesday. I got my onions, sweet peas and some garlic planted.I bought my cabbage plants, but the rain beat me to the planting so they will get set out in the next day or two. Also plan on planting my tater pots as soon as they dry out a little bit. I dug into my jerusalem...

Been a couple years since this thread started. My bandsaw still hasnt been built. I had a bout of kidney cancer and treatments to deal with all last year and put the sawmill on the back burner. Good news is I am now cancer free and done with the infusions and treatments and I am actually fixing...

I had a few to many roos around. I had 5 roos and 5 hens, The roos where even double teaming the hens, so much so the hens kept flying out of the coop. My white leghorn still flew out today and she had a big dirty spot on her back. I can only assume my one remaining roo was rough on her. Only...