I checked with my friendly neighborly search engine AI and it's true: Azomite can have heavy metals. Damn. Although that's really unwelcome news as azomite has been my go-to for years, thanks for the info. The bag I just bought is gonna be the last.
After paying $4k to have a whole pecan removed from my dogs small intestine a month ago the furry little cocksuckers continue to bury pecans in the backyard and my idiot Scottish Terrier is still digging them up. Either I get my daughter to get the trap out of the attic next time she comes by or cull them myself. My neighbor used to shoot them all the time out of his pecan trees but he kept a pneumatic nail gun connected near him if any "officials" came due to a noise complaint. I would ask to borrow it but he's at least 90 and will talk to you until your ears bleed.
The thought of shooting these out back though make my handcuff senses tingle.
We get a shit load of squirrels around here and they're almost all fucking invasive. If we had the same gun laws as america I would do nothing but shoot every single one of the cunts. I can't even trap them because they aren't all invasives.
We get a shit load of squirrels around here and they're almost all fucking invasive. If we had the same gun laws as america I would do nothing but shoot every single one of the cunts. I can't even trap them because they aren't all invasives.
A few years ago a friend of mine and I went hunting for squirrels. We only had 22s so that's all we could shoot. The deer were eyeballing us like they knew we couldn't shoot them.
I'm not going to say those airguns work even the 177 I read about on line sure did work fine. Also it sure kept the deer from munching things.
Having a bunch of dead things even if you dispose isn't great I recommend a good wack in the butt or the hip.
If deer just don't be a jerk and go for the eye center mass they will scatter off. Deer are dumb as fuck and learn, squirrels are creative and will find something less armed.
In Minecraft.
Actually squirrels don't mess with my raised beds at all, it's lucky or something? We do have bird feeders they absolutely hang out all day under for the scraps tho. I actually like them as long as they don't fuck things up.
Has to be under a certain strength otherwise you need police clearance and a license for it. That is literally the same process as buying an actual gun so there's not really much point when you could just get like a 22lr rifle. And shit under the legal strength is so weak that you would have to be unreasonably close for it to actually kill the squirrel. Basically if it's strong enough to kill a squirrel it's strong enough to cause serious damage to a person, so it's treated the same way as a gun. Ironically you can buy a compound bow with 0 restrictions and that would cause way more damage to a person and would have even less genuine pest control use just from it being inherently more difficult to use.
Has to be under a certain strength otherwise you need police clearance and a license for it. That is literally the same process as buying an actual gun so there's not really much point when you could just get like a 22lr rifle. And shit under the legal strength is so weak that you would have to be unreasonably close for it to actually kill the squirrel. Basically if it's strong enough to kill a squirrel it's strong enough to cause serious damage to a person, so it's treated the same way as a gun. Ironically you can buy a compound bow with 0 restrictions and that would cause way more damage to a person and would have even less genuine pest control use just from it being inherently more difficult to use.
.22 CBee rounds, if you can find them, are quieter out of a bolt action .22lr than ANY air rifle. I haven't shot any of them in 20 years due to the housing that has sprung up around here but they are very, very quiet out a bolt action .22lr. They always refused to feed out of my Remington 552. You still better be mindful about where you are sending them. I've slaughtered bulls with .22 shorts in the past.
No the problem isn't noise. The problem is that the only thing I can easily buy is too weak to kill a squirrel at a reasonable distance. There's no rules about gun noise surprisingly. I could shoot whatever whenever as long as it was within reason. Basically if I saw a squirrel in the garden I could shoot it no matter what. There's no hoa or anything like that to complain about it, assuming you're not being a cunt about it, the only law that's relevant is the general noise nuisance laws. The restriction is getting a gun in the first fucking place.
Getting ready to plant out my yellow squash and zucchini starts. Growing pumpkins for the first time too. It’s an ambitious year for the garden and I am casting a wide net in hopes that once my kids are old enough to eat veggies out of the garden they like at least one thing that I’m growing. Trying to keep them interested in going outside and can only hope that insulates them from becoming or being influenced by tablet kids once they go to school.
Anyways I just shoot squirrels in the ass with my dinky red rider and hope no busybody dickhead sees it and complains. The squirrels really freak out after getting hit by something they can’t see and have mostly left my container plants alone this year. Deer are another story.
Deer won’t put their faces close to pointy things that threaten their eyes. Every year when I prune the fruit trees I stick the long water sprouts into the ground around the day lilies. They don’t get nibbled.
Anyways I just shoot squirrels in the ass with my dinky red rider and hope no busybody dickhead sees it and complains. The squirrels really freak out after getting hit by something they can’t see and have mostly left my container plants alone this year. Deer are another story.
I'm not really worried about the garden aspect. I'm more concerned with the fact they're invasive. Other than picking out the odd rouge oak tree they don't bother me. They just do not belong in my country and should be culled for ecological reasons.
>Willbender, I planted too many seedlings of tomatoes and squashes, can you take some home?
dude did you forget our climate zone? what kinds of varieties are these anyway? >idk just bought some seeds at the supermarket
I am debating whether to use my currently limited gardening time/space to cultivate these literal bastards.
The seedlings are all clumped together in the starter pots, is it a big gamble to rip them apart or is it better to just plant each pot as is?
They are well past developing mature leaves so I guess they need to hit their final spot now now now
Anyways I just shoot squirrels in the ass with my dinky red rider and hope no busybody dickhead sees it and complains. The squirrels really freak out after getting hit by something they can’t see and have mostly left my container plants alone this year. Deer are another story.
Oh I wish I could do that. I just have a rooftop garden so I don't really see the squirrels. I just come up and see the holes they dug.
Deer are a huge problem in my state and the social media posts about how to deal with them are always so dumb. "hey guys, killing the deer sounds mean, maybe we should give the deer birth control!"
The seedlings are all clumped together in the starter pots, is it a big gamble to rip them apart or is it better to just plant each pot as is?
They are well past developing mature leaves so I guess they need to hit their final spot now now now
Tobacco seeds are tiny little dots so to germinate them I just sprinkled them on some dirt under a light and a lot of the seedlings grew in clumps.
I tried to carefully shake some of them apart, but others I just got lazy and said fuck it and stuck the whole clump in the pot outside. I have several plants doing better now (despite the squirrels) and most of them look like singletons, but I have a few plants that might be two or three plants stuck together. No clue how that's going to work when they get bigger.
We got a bit of rain yesterday. In the last 2 weeks the cayenne has started to bush out, the regular jalapeno had a growth spurt and the Megatron Jalapeno is still small with the one early pepper on it. I am mighty tempted to pick that one pepper now and give them all a nice bottom feeding of Advanced Nutrients pH Perfect nutes. I have a shitload of it since I gave up on "indoor gardening."
Sometime, within the next 30 days the fucking tomato hornworms will make their annual appearance. I'm gonna have to keep the plants dusted with Sevin until July. I found one years ago as big as my index finger and gave it to my daughters chameleon. He snatched that hornworm up super quick when he saw it.
The seedlings are all clumped together in the starter pots, is it a big gamble to rip them apart or is it better to just plant each pot as is?
They are well past developing mature leaves so I guess they need to hit their final spot now now now
Huh. Shit. I was trying to grow catgrass for my cat and the squirrels fuck with that too. That's very interesting.
Also, in the past two days, I've been seeing Spotted Lanternfly nymphs on my deck. I think I killed like 6 or more in the course of like 30 minutes just having a smoke on my roof after work.
They're an invasive species from Asia and I was killing the hell out of them last year. Hopefully they leave my plants alone.
I'm not sure if I'll ever get around to making a veggie garden, but I've given it some thought. I'm gonna keep it simple with a 4x8 raised bed and possibly add more beds as time goes on and I get more experience.
The plants I was thinking of putting in are:
-Tomatoes
-Green peppers
-Onions
-Garlic
-Spinach
I don't know if these plants have any "synergies" with one another, but I use them the most in the kitchen so I figured having more of them that's fresh grown couldn't hurt. There'd also be some flowers to keep the pests at bay like basils near the tomatoes, nasturitums at the edges of the bed, maybe a line of marigold at the front or back. I'm just spitballing here, and I'd like to refine the layout a bit before actually committing.
