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Ours don't seem to care for it, so maybe it matters which kind? I mean, they'll peck at it, but sure not very enthusiastically. I never paid attention to kind; just bought whatever seeds looked like larger pumpkins for carving.

I bought a pack of seeds on Amazon and also bought a set of 3 baits. I'll plant the seeds in mid-March. I think they can work in tandem by setting a bait far away from our trees and garden, and put a pot of 4 o'clocks below it so any that falls from the bait can chew on some yummy flowers...

Do yours reseed themselves? I did some more reading about them who raise them up here in the frozen tundra and some said they die every winter and come back every spring from seed. If that's the case, I could buy some seeds once, then be done with it. Or, could buy some seeds, start them...

Most chickens would know to stay away from those and anything poisonous. I have silkies though. They aren't the brightest bulbs on the planet. ☺️

I wondered why I hadn't heard of them as I went searching -- it's rare to find any hardy for up north in Zone 4. There are some though, but then I read the foliage is poisonous to chickens. We have a fenced garden we could plant them in so I'll see about getting some seeds. Thank you!

Thank you so much! :highfive: I never knew I could have been doing this with peppers. Awesome!!

Wow, could you explain over-wintering pepper plants? I always have three beautiful ones but just let them freeze and die and in spring, get three more.

We have two huge south windows that last winter I grew nearly 100 marigolds in to try keep the Japanese beetles out of the raspberries and our trees. It sort of worked but neem oil works better so I'll not be doing that this year. My indoor plants are sort of taking over those windows now as...

I've frozen kale for the chickens. I just rinse and chop it into 5"x5" approx pieces, lay them out on large cookie sheets and freeze for about an hour. Then put into freezer bags and back into the freezer. They like it in the winter. Last winter I didn't and just bought a bunch in the store...

Not at all. These were given to us or we'd not be composting at all. We border a forest and already dealt with skunks who would be the first "customers."

We learned even if covered, as ours are two bins that lock and unlock so we can spin them, that we still shouldn't put meat or bones in it. To each their own though. Banana peels w/o the sticker, coffee grounds WITH the filter, and dryer vent fuzz were the weirdest things I learned we could...

I could ditto what you said as that town nearest us does that too. Every year hubby goes and gets a trailer full for our garden as the compost we make is for my barrels, pots, and seedlings. The only thing is one year, not sure what they threw in there but we had a lot of weeds from it.

We just got a list of what can and can't go in our bins to learn initially. We weren't sure at first if this was going to be too complicated too, but learned the basics and went from there. In spring we add the sawdust and dehydrated chick poop from the coop (we use horse bedding pellets) and...

We don't seem to draw the raccoons, but it sure does attract the deer! I put solar motion lights over by it which helps.

Those work kind of like what I did on accident by leaving an empty feed bin open for my hubby to fill. It's one of those plastic bins with a flip lid that snaps down and seals and holds about 25# of feed. I left it open the other day and when I went back out I found a mouse in there looking...

By that you mean, lay them on a cookie sheet uncovered and put in the freezer? We did that once with kale. Just froze the leaves for an hour then bagged them up. That worked pretty well. I just never did that with anything else.

I've decided to skip planting it and just do what @tripletfeb suggested. I'll buy a nice healthy bunch of celery and freeze a couple of quart freezer bags of it. I could do like I do for the peppers and just take a few out of the bag as I need. A trick I found is drying the pepper strips off...

I don't know as I eat the beet tops! That's the best part to me. They sure love the kale though. We grow that just for them.

We grew broccoli for the first time and the plants grew HUGE with little tiny broccoli heads on them. Must be something the horses eat as our neighbor hauls horse poop over here every spring for our garden.

Thank you! I did not know that nor never would have even thought you could. I freeze green and red pepper strips all the time but for some reason, celery never crossed my mind.