Baroclinic Zone Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: Effing chipmunks are eating my tomatoes. Anybody have a good trick to repel them? https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/animals/chipmunk-control.htm#:~:text=Common chipmunk repellents are pureed,of oil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 6 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/animals/chipmunk-control.htm#:~:text=Common chipmunk repellents are pureed,of oil. I actually saw that website. I tried coffee grinds too, but to no avail. Never had them eat tomatoes before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 BB gun repels them nicely 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunafish Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 53 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: Effing chipmunks are eating my tomatoes. Anybody have a good trick to repel them? Used as a last resort as I hate killing things unnecessarily, especially in this semi-humane manner...5 gallon bucket 3/4 full of water, handfull of sunflower seeds on top. piece of scrap wood 2x4 as a ramp. Check for bodies 1-2x a day, refill with seeds as needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 A longer term solution would be hardware cloth around the garden area that's also buried 6-12" deep to prevent the tunneling underneath. Or attract hawks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 45 minutes ago, tunafish said: Used as a last resort as I hate killing things unnecessarily, especially in this semi-humane manner...5 gallon bucket 3/4 full of water, handfull of sunflower seeds on top. piece of scrap wood 2x4 as a ramp. Check for bodies 1-2x a day, refill with seeds as needed. For lethal weapons I'd choose rat traps. When my corn was being ravaged by non-raccoons, I set several thinking that red squirrels were the culprits - those traps were the right medicine for the reddies that invaded our back porch before I scribe-cut two pieces of plywood to block the holes I'd not noticed earlier. Caught none, then observed blue jays dive-bombing the ripening ears, and now I plant other things where the corn would've been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunafish Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 I've got hardware cloth for the primary veggie garden (for groundhogs) as well as for the coop (predators). I had considered rat traps, but with chickens and children and songbirds I decided against to avoid any accidents. They weren't a nuisance to my garden, but their tunneling was causing sinkholes to pop up dangerously close to the footing of my deck. I was content coexisting with them until then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 3 hours ago, SJonesWX said: BB gun repels them nicely My cat is less than a year old and has easily killed 100 this summer. Its been great..lol. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 I'll try the cloth next year. Won't bother now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 3 hours ago, tunafish said: Used as a last resort as I hate killing things unnecessarily, especially in this semi-humane manner...5 gallon bucket 3/4 full of water, handfull of sunflower seeds on top. piece of scrap wood 2x4 as a ramp. Check for bodies 1-2x a day, refill with seeds as needed. Bucket of death. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying MXZ Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 22 hours ago, CoastalWx said: Bucket of death. Works amazingly well. I've had as many as 5 in the same bucket. You'd think they'd see their friends and decide not to jump, but alas.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbeer Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 On 8/31/2022 at 12:14 PM, CoastalWx said: Effing chipmunks are eating my tomatoes. Anybody have a good trick to repel them? I'll echo backedge. When I had a cat, I had a garden and no chipmunks. Now I have no cat and no garden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 The cat is a good method too…handles the voles, mice, and moles as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 22 minutes ago, dendrite said: The cat is a good method too…handles the voles, mice, and moles as well. Less effective here, thanks to a healthy coyote population and a fair number of fishers. Inside cats live longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 3 hours ago, tamarack said: Less effective here, thanks to a healthy coyote population and a fair number of fishers. Inside cats live longer. Yea, we have that worry here too. Our cat was a barn cat and was an outside cat from the day we got him. Worst part is he loves to be out at night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 1 hour ago, backedgeapproaching said: Yea, we have that worry here too. Our cat was a barn cat and was an outside cat from the day we got him. Worst part is he loves to be out at night. We rescued our cat when he was like 9-10 weeks old. Tried hard to make him an indoor cat but he just never took to it. We finally made peace with the fact that at some point he probably just won’t come back. He’s gotten beaten pretty good by something twice. One time, he had a big puncture on one side of his spine and three more on the other. I think a hawk or owl grabbed him but he got loose. I don’t know how he made it back to the house. That adventure cost us almost $2000. He’s 10 or 11 now. Oh and we don’t have mice issues around the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 27 minutes ago, mreaves said: We rescued our cat when he was like 9-10 weeks old. Tried hard to make him an indoor cat but he just never took to it. We finally made peace with the fact that at some point he probably just won’t come back. He’s gotten beaten pretty good by something twice. One time, he had a big puncture on one side of his spine and three more on the other. I think a hawk or owl grabbed him but he got loose. I don’t know how he made it back to the house. That adventure cost us almost $2000. He’s 10 or 11 now. Oh and we don’t have mice issues around the house. We feel the same way, knowing really any day could be the last. Ours was 3 months old when we got him. Also tried the indoor route, but just no way. 10 or 11 years old in VT is pretty nice run as an outdoor cat. He kills so much stuff, its kind of shocking..ha. I find random corpses around the yard all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Most of my lawn has come through the worst of the drought fine. With the recent rains you'd never know it's been dry. There are a few patches that got really burned. Any thoughts on these areas? Would you rake them out and reseed as if it were a spring clean-up? Thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 15 wheelbarrows full of thatch from just the front and side yard. Ready to overseed soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 3 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said: 15 wheelbarrows full of thatch from just the front and side yard. Ready to overseed soon Glad we dont live there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunafish Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 On 9/3/2022 at 5:01 AM, moneypitmike said: Most of my lawn has come through the worst of the drought fine. With the recent rains you'd never know it's been dry. There are a few patches that got really burned. Any thoughts on these areas? Would you rake them out and reseed as if it were a spring clean-up? Thanks! Pull the dead grass.. do the roots come with, or does it snap off at the surface? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Took advantage of this cool/rainy Labor Day and threw down the nematodes last evening. I know it was their parent grubs that ate my lawn, but I'll take the children as revenge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 What is the cheapest way to overseed? Mow-->rake--> aerate-->seed? Stein killed half my yard and I don't feel like taking out a HELOC for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 29 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: What is the cheapest way to overseed? Mow-->rake--> aerate-->seed? Stein killed half my yard and I don't feel like taking out a HELOC for it. Do what I did and Brett is doing. You need to basically scalp the lawn. Make sure to kill off any weeds. Once that is done, you need to dethatch/aerate the **** out of it to give the seed good soil contact. Find a good seed and starter fertilizer and rake into loosened soil to cover seeds just enough. Keep the ground you overseed moist but not drenched. I was watering a couple times a day to keep mine moist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 1 minute ago, Baroclinic Zone said: Do what I did and Brett is doing. You need to basically scalp the lawn. Make sure to kill off any weeds. Once that is done, you need to dethatch/aerate the **** out of it to give the seed good soil contact. Find a good seed and starter fertilizer and rake into loosened soil to cover seeds just enough. Keep the ground you overseed moist but not drenched. I was watering a couple times a day to keep mine moist. Ugh, that sounds like a PITA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 Spread the seed before the first snow and just let it sit dormant all winter? It may not work down there as well as it does up here since you don't have the pack we get, but it makes for good soil contact when it all thaws out in the spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunafish Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 1 hour ago, CoastalWx said: What is the cheapest way to overseed? Mow-->rake--> aerate-->seed? Stein killed half my yard and I don't feel like taking out a HELOC for it. Cheapest way? Let mother nature do it for you. Don't do anything at all. After a few years it'll be a vibrant, natural, FREE, ecosystem of native and non-native "weeds" and grass. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 1 hour ago, dendrite said: Spread the seed before the first snow and just let it sit dormant all winter? It may not work down there as well as it does up here since you don't have the pack we get, but it makes for good soil contact when it all thaws out in the spring. I've had that happen. I guess we'll see how the next week goes and if it slowly fills in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 1 hour ago, CoastalWx said: Ugh, that sounds like a PITA. Took me 2 weekends to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 54 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: I've had that happen. I guess we'll see how the next week goes and if it slowly fills in. It is definitely going to green up, but there will probably be some dead spots too. Just too dry for there not to be some die off, but you will have no clue what is dead and not unless you wait a bit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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