I got the trick from an old timer and it seemed to help me out. Maybe we have dumber birds….We've done the ball ornaments. The birds catch on quickly. Most of our tomatoes are small varieties because that's what we lmost. I don't remember what kind of cukes we tried but will try again.
Birds tend to go after tomatoes because they're thirsty. Try putting an accessible source of water in sight of them.We do container gardening in grow boxes. Almost everything works well. Unfortunately mockingbirds get at least half of our tomatoes and every year, little white bugs ruin our cucumbers overnight. I've given up on cukes.
Well the idea is to keep it cool so it doesn't go bitter and bolt. Target temperatures are 60-65 F, so I think I have a chance.grow lettuce in the summer using "waste cooling". Good luck with that, I tried years ago in DFW. Nice thick bitter leaves. Needs cool weather to grow anything but kale. Helped make gopher baskets couple weeks ago for the kids place, they planted a bunch of fruit trees, didn't get the pecans in the ground yet.
I just got some of mine tilled yesterday. Then started barfing. Stomach bug going around my family. I have an old tiller that my neighbor gave me that I got running again, but it seems a little dangerous. No dead mans switch, and if you let go while it's running and engaged, it will just keep going. Also I still have some buried roots in the bed, so that makes it a lot harder.
I can remember my grandparents would hang those shiny tin pie pans in the fruit trees to scare the birds away.I got the trick from an old timer and it seemed to help me out. Maybe we have dumber birds….
good luck
Good times. This one might be about old enough to be that one. It's a troy-bilt horse junior with with a Tecumseh HH-40 engine. Neighbor gave it to me I guess because it didn't run and he didn't want to deal with it. New fuel lines and replacement carb and she runs solid and starts on the first pull.I learned on a tiller like this when I was around 12 or 13. I had to lean back the entire time or it would drag me around the garden, lol.
But it was old and heavy. Did a much better job than most similarly sized consumer tillers for sale today. Probably better than the nice big self propelled tillers, but at 10 times the work. You could bury that old one up to the engine if you wanted. Had to rebuild the engine after using it a couple times. OLD Briggs and Stratton on it. Good memories.
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Good times. This one might be about old enough to be that one. It's a troy-bilt horse junior with with a Tecumseh HH-40 engine. Neighbor gave it to me I guess because it didn't run and he didn't want to deal with it. New fuel lines and replacement carb and she runs solid and starts on the first pull.
It just likes pulling off in any random direction if the tines don't bite.
That's a nice size garden!Planted green beans, potato’s, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers for slicing and pickling, lettuce, and corn today. Waiting for things to warm up a little more for the okra and black eye peas. Got 2 rows left in the garden to fill with something.
Second pic is the corn patch.
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