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I tried those- worked for a couple of seansons then the buggers started ignoring them. In fact one heaved the thing up out of the soil. :P It depends on the density of your soil too.

Those are mighty and good goals- I hope it works out for you. Plenty of people around here have done that. It would still be possible but the pot growers have made this area much less family friendly so most of the people who are doing what you want are middle aged or older. Good luck and...

My response to gopher central (otherwise known as my place) is to 1) plant fruit trees in cages and 2) make raised beds sitting over hardware cloth. I also do the gopher stomp- which means that every mound of gopher dirt I see is stomped down. I think it keeps them busy and slows their...

I don't think that reference said they were outlawed, just that the Berkey people couldn't determine what was needed to be certified. Under any circumstances, you can order them from a lot of different places who don't care where they send them. I do have one but can't give any info on it as it...

OK Beekissed- you win the gross out award- eeewwwwweeeee. :P

Find a cage rat- you know the snake food kind. Strap a critter cam on him and tell him to spy on his brother rats. Promise him freedom from becoming a meal and a cheesy pension. Then let him go.

No- Ben-like rustling. oo-eee-oooo :D

I hate to say it but my first thought is rat colony. Do you have a stethoscope? You could listen. But if rats, then entrance holes should be somewhere near.

I visited a man who lived in Portland Or and kept three hens- they basically had the run of his back yard which had lots of raised beds and tubs of plants all having chicken wire covers. I make chicken wire covers for my beds too due to foxes and other creatures coming through my place at night...

I would suspect that your BIL knows exactly what his situation allows but is making himself feel better by pretending it just ain't so. And your position puts a dent in that. There are obviously lots of feelings mixed in with the gifts. I used to love looking for the gifts that would mean...

Reading another post about differences in expectations of SS, I got to thinking about how I got here. When I was very young, my Mom had an expectation that "ladies" did not do manual labor. That changed a great deal then my father went away on a tour of duty for two years at a point where they...

Freemotion thank you. An eighth of an inch is really short. I might give it a try.

The bulb size on the white was similar- the purple much much larger.

Has anyone made their own sprouted wheat flour?

Both came from the same local grower. The change in cliamate was significant for both- came from a coastal flat land to my inland mountain. Maybe it's just that one selects only the biggest bulbs for replanting?

:) I had slug stomping rock around the garden or I carry a pair of clipper and snip them in half. :th It's amazing what lengths I will go if my precious crops are threatened.

I wonder what the mechanism is for that. I planted a german white type and got huge heads the first year. I planted a purple striped Italian and got much smaller heads that first year.

Hmmm... I poop therefore I am?

I do live in a more benign area to garden but I would not give up on raised beds- they allow much more control of the environment than a wide open garden. The first thing is to make sure that you have balanced soil in the bed- plants that are stressed give up more easily to everything. Then get...

Still a lot of garlic. :th I love the hard necks too although it is based soley on taste as the two varieties I grow are harder to peel ( my rolly peel thing doesn't work on them.) I do like the fact that, while there are fewer cloves, they are all good size- no fooling with little bitty cloves.