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This is my latest nesting box. Slot opening and strings around. It's made of laminate flooring scraps. On this one the roof and the front are hinged for access to the nest. A heavy metal patch keeps both closed. It's mounted on 1/2 conduit so critters can't climb up. We don't have a snake...

This is a bb nesting box with tangle-foot on the roof and monofilament strings hanging down around the box. This is the box that the bb couple selected for their home. Poor little things. It's about 100 yds from the house at the edge of a pasture.

This is my early version of a "slot box" design. It's on a telephone pole out by the road. About 50 yards from the house. The House Finches love it.

Here are my three hi-tech bluebird (bb) boxes. I found it very interesting to read articles from birders, nature lover's, and college professors on the care of bbs. I have seven plans on building bb nesting boxes. Each with it's own adaptations specifically for bbs. The "slot box" seems to be...

I have tried for 6 years to coax bluebirds to stay on our property. Each spring I see bluebirds for only one or two weeks and then they are gone. I have studied and studied and studied on how to make them want to stay. I have built three blue bluebird houses according to all of the "expert's"...

Hi Valley Ranch. Your post has me a bit confused or "discombobulated". Would you please tell us the whats and the whys of it? Pretty please? Pretty please with sugar on top?

I know, I know, it's been a very long time since I've poked my head in here. I think of you guys often. I sincerely hope everyone is doing OK under the current world conditions.

I was thinking about calling y'all peepickers but I thought better if it.

You're exactly correct @ so lucky. I felt like I was whining too much shortly after the accident and then things got worse. I have a man-made hip now and it isn't right but the worst part is the spine and nerve damage. I'm ok as long as I don't forget to oil my wheelchair now and then. I'm...

Pee Pickers ???

OK, that's it!!! Now I feel more comfortable with this bunch of pea pickers.

Oh my gosh! What has happened to my thread?!?! :lol: I had an accident here on the farm a couple years ago and several times I had a catheter with a bag. Icouldn't walk and each morning my wife would take a full bag of urine to pour around the garden. I think it caused every critter in the...

I got so tickled about this @flowerbug , that's exactly how I feel too. :eek:

We have lots of deer around here and the damage looks like something deer could do. I put wire fence on both sides of each row yesterday (se photo) and there seems to be no damage this morning. Or maybe they took a night off. Hmmm. We have a two acre pond near the tomatoes so lack of water may...

Hi Carrol Dee, I used your suggestion and hammered four 4ft. long reinforcing rods into the ground to about 2ft. high. One at each corner of the flower bed. I used some camouflaged rope from hunting season to go all around. Now the 4ft. tall flowers are standing at attention and can't fall over...

Hi again everyone, it seems that the only time I talk to you guys is when I'm waiving the distress flag. Sorry. In all my years of gardening I have never had animals get into tomato plants. Oh yeah, when I free ranged our chickens they would jump up to peck now and then. But this attack is...

Thanks guys, I appreciate the replies. I'm not really a flowers kind of person and I never know what I'm planting. Here on the farm we're more into soy beans and field corn with an acre veggie garden. But I do like to plant flowers in the spring once in a while.

For the past three years I have been planting Zenias in a flower bed in front of our porch. I select seed packets that say the plants will be 10 to 12 inches tall. Every year they grow to 24 inches tall or more. They are beautiful but sometime in August they fall over because they are so...

Hi everyone. It's been a long while and I see a bunch of new names. I've been told to let newly planted asparagus grow for 3 years before a harvest should be made. Mine are just starting their 3rd season and the stalks are 1 to 2 ft. tall now. I'm wondering if I should cut them back to 2 or 3...

Oops, I meant to say I walk with a hitch in my giddyup