I have a metal feeder base that screws on fine, but the metal waterer base doesn't want to screw on to the mason jar. I probably got a defective one. I also have a quail waterer base made of plastic, attaches easily.
The original model works great!
FYI: the broody here is Martha, and she's the chick in the center of my MHP photo, next to the fire brick. She has a tiny dot on her head.
I use my cordless reciprocating saw to cut stump roots as well. It's so handy...I cut down half a mulberry tree last weekend as it was leaning on my shed roof.
Some of you may recall the A-frame roost I built from pallets?
Last night it came in very handy.
Someone in the flock is attacking the chicks, and wounded the littlest. I decided to make a refuge for Martha and her chicks. I used some plastic chicken fencing I had on hand and zip-tied it...
I remember a machine like that, in upstate SC, around 1990. I think they called it a golden goat. You'd dump your aluminum cans in the hopper, it would weigh them, and them shoot them into a large metal cage. I can't recall if they were crushed, could be.
Most birds don't need a perch on the house.
Make sure to add a collar of metal or wood around the house opening, as bigger birds and other predators will enlarge it and kill the babies.
A ¾ inch to 1 inch thick piece of wood extended from and surrounding the entry hole will hinder and protect...
The cattle panel trellis is inserted less than six inches, and on the edge.
I used branches in the bottom for the raised bed you see here. A couple of the stakes I had to wiggle a little to insert them fully, probably they were pushing between the branches.
Love your tomatoes, and marigolds!
I got the upright squash idea here, I think. I managed to get a squash harvest without poisons, which was wonderful. I'd previously tried injecting BT with limited success.
I used to do that with my tomatoes, but they didn't need ties with the trellis method.
I cut up old t-shirts and socks to make wraps and ties for my squash plants last year.
I put cardboard down between my raised beds. It works well, and is FREE.
I overlap the cardboard, leaving about an extra inch or so where it meets the bed, so there's no gap between the cardboard and the raised bed. Then I anchor it down with clay pots, but anything with weight, like bricks...
Gardener Scott demonstrated how to tie a string around the base of the plant, tie the other end to the top of the trellis, leaving some slack. As the tomato plant grows you wrap the main stem around the string, helping it climb. However, once my plants started filling out they didn't seem to...
Not pallet wood, but the best tomato support I've ever used in almost 60 years of gardening was created from a cattle panel:
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