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homemade ant traps
The ants are starting to make their way into the house as they do every spring. I made an ant trap last year that was pretty successful and was pet proof (at least for my pets). All you need is a squat wide mouth canning jar, a sprouting lid, some powdered sugar and borax. The jars that I have are from Ball and they are…
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Garden Crabs Wage War On Squirrels!
Garden Crabs Wage War On Squirrels! Meet my Garden Crabs, Corona and Covid - they work 24/7 in the battle against squirrels and other critters... and they work for free! The next day, after planting the back garden bed, it was invaded by squirrels. Fortunately, a passing train awoke me around 5:30 AM and I got on up to get…
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How do you deal with invasive grass?
Due to work and illness my garden has not been fully planted in a couple years and has consequently been over taken by a grass that spreads by long roots/runners. The roots are as thick as heavyweight thread and I have pulled out some that are 10 feet or longer. I've tried black plastic and other mulch to smother them, but…
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Is This A Grub On Steroids?
I was planting flowers today around a small plum tree and I dug this up!! Yes, I screamed! My husband thought I was crazy until he saw the size of it! There is also a pine tree stump right next to it that was cut down probably 5 years ago.
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Killer Trees (black walnut) in my garden area
Just before winter we moved into our first (and hopefully forever) home. We have 1 acre on which to raise chickens, grow fruit trees, berry bushes, and put in some nice raised garden beds with no bottoms -- I want the worms to have access to my beds. However, after we moved I began paying attention to the trees (I know,…
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Creative squirrel deterent for garden...
I guess I'll find out today if this works. Squirrels are trying to dig up my seeds in the garden bed... and I don't want to harvest them just yet, in case of emergency... They haven't done any real damage yet, and usually stop once the seeds germinate, so I'll try to deter them for a few days. I just sprinkled crushed red…
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wire worms
I just saw something on MI Gardener about starting carrots. I figure if he's starting them already in Michigan, I should get moving here in South Jersey. My only problem is that our soil has wire worms. (That's what the farmers around here call them. I'm not sure of the exact species.) Because of the wire worms, I have a…
