LOL!!yes yes the kind folk in the big city have decided to build me some lovely windmills to look at. They are especially nice at night seeing 500 red lights blinking at me. It’s almost like fireflies. At least 3 of the windmills work, too.(sarcasm).
I like the bird suet/feed idea, I'm gonna start doing that, the farm cats don't eat that.
Interesting.
That has to be the prettiest functional beehive I’ve ever seen.
Yup, my mistake!
Yeah, the colored zip ties are good, until they fall off. Ain't NO WAY to hook 'em up backward if the fittings are pointed in the direction to close the grapple (female on the head end lines of the cylinders, male on the rod end line). I don't even have to look for a color, it simply won't fit wrong. I like things as stoopid proof as I can make them, because sometimes, I get that stoopid infection and break things.
Holy Moly, the leaves on those strawberries are HUGE. Waddayado to keep the berries from rotting? Our plants are on their second year now, and seem to be a little more likely to give us some berries. Up to now, every one we plant seems to bloom well, make berries, but just about the time they 'pink' up and start to ripen, they rot and mold. We 've tried mulch under 'em, landscape cloth, you name it. Nothing seems to work. But somewhere, one of us read that the berries rotting on the first year's crop is not uncommon. You have any issue first year? Our soil leaves some to be desired (hard clay) but we put in some raised beds with pine compost in it, and while the plants tried to take over the entire back yard, I don't think we got 5 edible berries last year. We've fertilized them with Miracle Grow this year, so now you can't even see the planter under the foliage. We left the landscape cloth in just to limit the growth a little, because they seem determined to take over the planet, let alone the planter. Good work teaching the kids young about a little hard manual labor, and the rewards of doing some things by hand.
I remember my first year keeping bees, all pretty newly paint hives. Even got 70 lbs. honey from 2 hives. You should see them now, some repaired, some structurally sound but all need repainting. Just remember to strap them tight if you ever have to move them with the tractor. Pair of forks come in handy for putting hives into the truck bed.
We got the same soil over here (and I’m still trying to figure it out
). These are first year berries and the first year I have tried them in the ground, have tried in containers before and have never had any luck. Right or wrong, this is what I did before planting…soil ph was really high (cheapo tester from Home Depot or lowes) , after I tilled it I sprayed it with some soil acidifier and let it sit a couple weeks, then just put some 13-13-13 down, tilled it again and used the bedder to make the rows. For mulch we are just using pine needles and leaves, that’s what kids are laying down. We just go to the timber and rake it up. Haven’t had any rotting yet, kids have already gotten a dozen or so berries off them so far.
That's good news. Hopefully they'll kick in something for your troubles.
I know it is futile figuring out how it could have happened but it would be interesting to see if that bracket could be put in upside down in the weld fixture. It is almost like it was done on purpose , for what ever reason, upset employee, April fools joke, to see if the quality control people were doing their job etc. How it got past the inspectors, cleaners, paint shop is crazy.
