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They're considered disposable, like everything else. I grab them at the dollar store periodically to add to my stash. I am having a hard time sourcing reusable suture needles.

I am trying to figure out how to fix my clay soil so I can do root crops. Potatoes and onions are two things I still buy. I am thinking maybe buy one or two of those big round hay bales and put pigs on it. Greenhouse is looking good, only spinach and cilantro at the moment. Two arugula were...

I have to look at it with both eyes from about an inch away, then slowly back out. Basically force my eyes to cross. When the center of the crossed focus matches, the image pops out. Still makes my brain hurt.

At one point someone have me a book of those images that look random but pop into 3d when you look at them right. THOSE make my brain hurt.

The funny thing is, whoever drew it had to put 5 legs on the bottom in order to make the top 4 work.

I Have seen no significant difference in spring vs fall pruning. I just prune whenever I have time after the plants are fully dormant. The advantage to spring pruning is that you can tell where the buds are. Fall pruning you may get stems dying during the winter that you had intended to use, but...

Legs on the elephant.

I got all of those except the tiny guy in the center.

Today I harvested from the greenhouse and had salad for lunch.

I use bucket traps in the barn, snap traps in the house, and baking soda everywhere. I'll have to try your box idea. It's a good one.

Yes, but my budget is very limited.

Right. Problem is that I can't put traditional mousetraps where chickens can reach them. Ditto with most poisons, with the addition that if mice eat poisoned bait it can take some time to die, resulting in them possibly getting into areas the chickens have access to and a chicken eating a...

I have containers of baking soda mixed with sugar all over the place. That cleaned out the barn in short order. The problem is with the humidity. Within a few days it absorbs moisture and hardens, and they stop eating it. I also think it's different mice. One stumbles away to die, another...

I I'm allergic to wasted planting space. Even the winter killed garden drives me nuts. Deliberately not growing in a greenhouse? I'd likely need an emergency room visit.

I'm not necessarily concerned about production at this point. The stupid mice even ate potatoes to the ground, but they haven't touched the rosemary. I know mice will eat onions, and they ate my seedling apples. I have seeds for oregano and thyme, various types of mint. It may be a matter of...

Any suggestions for plants that will survive in a greenhouse that mice won't eat? My original greenhouse at this location is a smorgasbord for them. Rosemary has survived. Everything else has been eaten down to the ground. Zone 6b

This moring 17 and 28. Pretty good, far better than I expected.

I put up sheets last night to temporarily block the largest gaps. This morning the temperature inside is 10 degrees higher than outside so I guess I have my culprit. Possibly wih the constant wind the gaps take out all the warm air to the lowest ambient point, and once it's down the cold air stays?

In a sense. I put down many layers of an old tarp, and cardboard over the top. So the base is sealed, but not technically insulated. Bottom edges have been spray foamed. There's one major gap on the house end that I need help to fix, and then I can spray foam the rest of the edges.

I have 2 thermometers, one inside and one outside. They are identical, purchased at the same time, and when I switch them I get the same result. My old greenhouse at my former property had a distinct temperature difference after just a few panels were put on. There are some very obvious...