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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...

I am completely confused at this point. Taking into consideration that the cattle panel greenhouse is not well sealed (to say the least) it seems to have gotten colder. The inside temperature at night is always 5 degrees below the outside. This morning it was 20 inside and 25 outside. I'll be...

You malign the fishies. I'm sure they were wild about being caught.

All the fruit trees have gone dormant. All 5 peaches survived the summer. All 5 2nd year apricots also survived. 2 almond seedlings and an apricot seedling survived in the dry garden; clay soil, no mulch, watered only once. We'll see if they survive the winter. I have plums, Nanking cherries...

I did a temporary fix on the west end, but completed the east end and the doors. Even facing the house, the wind is still fierce enough to throw the doors open. I have temporary latches on until I can figure out a reasonable solution. In hindsight I should have hung the doors so they opened out...

Dear opportunist, while you were watching them argue, I realized I could never have the glass so I peed in it. Enjoy! The Elitist

Use your old hoses as dripline. Drill a tiny hole where you want an "emitter," kink one end and plug it in to the new hose to water.

My single squash is embarrassed. She's starting to blush. I may get seeds after all. This weird period of higher temps after the first frost has tomatoes and watermelons regrowing from the root and blooming again. A seedling almond survived the summer with 0 water May to August, and a second...