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Years ago a guy on a TV gardening show recommended using aged urine for repelling moles and gophers. And not just any urine. He said baby urine is the best, aged in a warm spot for a few months. Dilute by ??? in water and spray around trouble area. Maybe it would work for deer?

I think boxes of .22 caliber rounds state that the range is 1 mile. Large centerfire rounds can go 3 or 4 miles. Maximum travel of shotgun pellets is around a couple hundred yards depending on shot size. https://rangeservices.nra.org/media/4074/shotshell-ballistics.pdf

I'm happy not to have one!

How close do you think you'll be to the fox when you shoot at it? 30 yards or less? If so, maybe a shotgun would be a better choice than a rifle. With a rifle you'll need to be accurate with your shot. With a shotgun there's room for error because the shot pattern spreads out. Rifle bullets...

You could use that dill as a "trap" plant. Leave it for the aphids in hopes that it will keep them away from your other garden plants.

Me and roosters don't get along. Had a pair of them once and their crowing woke me up too early in the morning. ====== Pulled a bucket of weeds from around the house and gave them to the girls to pick on. Picked more red leaf lettuce today, got started running lines for my drip irrigation...

My parsley plant that went to seed last summer attracted lots of tiny wasps to the garden. I think they were some type of parasitic wasp.

Those look like little yellow bugs to me. I think I can see legs.

Garden tour... The second year curly parsley plant is starting to form blossoms. Last year's parsley plant had blossoms all summer long and attracted loads of beneficial insects. Tarragon, oregano, lemon balm, thyme, chives, lavender and marjoram. A stray potato plant growing from tubers...

6 eggs (so far) today. Might get a 7th. I picked up a box of produce scraps from the grocery store yesterday. There were several big handfuls of lettuce leaves and each chicken got 1/4 of a watermelon, probably around 2 pounds for each bird. All of it was eaten within a few hours. They got a...

I think they can tell because of the ceramic egg's temperature. All the freshly laid eggs are warm, and the fake one is cold.

I bought a pound of Sluggo Plus bait. Parts of my garden are being munched on by slugs and I think, earwigs too. Sluggo Plus kills both. Just watered the garden, so after it dries a little I'll spread some of the bait around. I think the BT I sprayed on the bok choi helped. The new leaves...

7 out of 7 again. One had a little divot broken into the shell, I guess from dropping directly on another egg when it was laid. The membrane didn't break so it's still edible. Weird thing, the chickens almost always push the fake egg out of the way so they're not sitting on it. They prefer the...

I gave the tomatoes, peppers and squash a good soaking with some of the fermented weed fertilizer I made a few weeks ago. I diluted it down, 2 cups per gallon of water. Afterwards I soaked everything with the garden hose to push the fertilizer down to the plants' roots. Picked a big mess of...

I watered the lettuce/marigold/zinnia/crocosmia starts on the back porch railing. Mowed the yard yesterday. I ripped out the last four daikon radishes from the bucket and gave them to the chickens since the plants were bolting and the roots were woody. I think I'll move a volunteer tomato plant...

Saw this metallic green fly on the lemon balm and crocosmia plants. @PopoMyers , I haven't seen stink bugs here.

7 today, but one was broken in the nest.

Microgreens???

Thinking more about your potatoes, when I was a kid my grandpa grew a lot of potatoes, several acres at a time. They were always planted close to St. Patrick's day. Sometimes a hard freeze would hit and kill all the above ground foliage. The potatoes always grew new vines after the freeze, so...