Posted on 02/04/2023 6:17:08 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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I use something like this, by cutting off the lid and flipping it upside down.
They're free when you buy produce. Ask your friends and neighbors to save them for you!
Looks good but we don’t grow strawberries. I just thought
those green supports looked good.
The only info I had was what he posted & I copied. Evidently, he has additional info coming out (video, blog) that will have more details & maybe answer your questions.
I get my eggs from my SIL next door & I know she gets her chicken feed at Tractor Supply - I haven’t paid attention to what exactly she’s feeding them. I’ll have to take a walk & check it out.
I should have thought of that. I worked with sheet metal my whole life, cutting, bending etc.
I never realized how low to the ground strawberries grew until I grew some. For home use, potted/hanging plants. For commercial or if you just have a lot plants, plastic mulch.
That will certainly make it easier for the Chipmunks to take ONE bite out of EACH berry, then leave the rest for me!
It’s like a little ‘Chippy Dining Table,’ LOL! :)
Not sure what the strength of that wire is. Welded wire is the way to go.
Great-horned Owls can tear open most mesh with ease.
There are lots of different designs for the Chicken Tractors; I though this one was cute, showing that even little girls can operate them.
Usually, they’re just out during the day, then back to the coop for protection at night.
It was nearly 50 degrees here, yesterday. Back to ‘Snowmageddon’ today!
Temperature is relative:
35° above zero: New York landlords finally turn up the heat. People in Wisconsin have the last cookout before it gets cold.
20° above zero: People in Arizona all die. Wisconsin closes the windows.
0°: Californians fly away to Mexico. People in Wisconsin get out their winter coats.
10° below zero: Hollywood disintegrates. The Girl Scouts in Wisconsin are selling cookies door to door.
Thank you for the update.
Clearly I need to get back to my nutrition research!
HaHa like I said I don’t gro strawberries. I did like the gutter pic you posted, although the birds might like those. Seems to me tubebender grew a lot of strawberries. Pinging him and hope to hear how he and Mrs. Bender are doing.
Bought this to put up as a ceiling in my shed. Works well for reflecting that heat from the metal roof.
Saw where some woman had done this in between the rows of her garden too.
I love that! I’ve also seen where you put chickens in your raised beds with a wire cover over them, and they do the ‘tilling’ for you in the spring.
Not as handy at tipping as pigs are, but any little hit helps! :)
* tilling *
It’s COWS that you tip! ;)
You can have at that whole pig tipping thing:)
I work the weekend plus Monday so peas get sewed indoors tomorrow.
One thing that works great for ceiling insulation in a shed is egg cartons, staple the lid where you want it then close up the carton. Before our barn was built our goats were in a shed and we had the whole ceiling covered.
We have a lot of coffee grounds in our compost. They basically help with drainage.
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