The garden!

[brewmaster15]

I use the yellow paddle ones too. they are supposed to not need baiting but I use Peanut butter and a few pieces of cereal. The peanut butter gets in the holes of the paddle. I do like Jacobs idea on the Yarn for the metal trap triggers..makes a lot of sense.

Years back when I worked for the state we used peanut butter and. Apple to collect wild mice for Lyme disease.

[jeep]

My garden season has come to a disappointing and early end. We had 25 straight days of temps ranging from 96 to 102 without a cloud in the sky, and the winds gusting to an occasional 1mph. The almost bearable thing is that humidity wasn't all that high like it was earlier this Summer so it didn't feel as bad as it could have. But, even watering every day wasn't enough to beat intense heat and sunlight and now almost everything is cooked and dead.

Tomatoes didn't fair so well. Many were mislabeled when I got them and I ended up with about 3 regular size plants and 15 cherry plants, some of which survived the heat and a re still producing. My salsa is made mainly from cherry tomatoes, lol...


From appearances, this was unexpectedly the best melon season I've ever had. I picked most of them one at a time, thinking there was no way they weren't ripe yet, but there was a way because they weren't. All but one that I left for an extra two weeks, only to discover that not only was it ripe, it was beyond ripe and rotted from the inside out. Unfortunately, the heat and sun cooked the vines before the rest of the melons ripened and they don't seem to be ripening any further. I'm saving many of the seeds for next year.

Peppers went crazy as well. I bet I got 40lbs of sweet banana peppers off of two plants, and about 100 cayenne's off of one plant. Two other sweet pepper plants gave me enough peppers to make about 4 gallons of salsa with way too many leftovers.


Potatoes.. What a joke! I planted about 4lbs of seed potatoes and harvested maybe 1 1/2lbs, many the size of a marble. So small that it's hard to tell which is a potato and which is a walnut since that area seems to be the squirrels favorite place to bury walnuts, lol...

Beans and peas were victims of the damn rabbits but I'm not giving up and I planted another crop a few days ago to hopefully give me something before the first freeze.

I'm also preparing a section so I can hopefully plant some garlic in a couple few weeks. I've never done anything more than just stick some store bought cloves in the ground, so this time I'm looking forward to trying it the right way...