moss control method that's kid and pet friendly?
njitgrad
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Comments (7)A version of Lasagna Gardening works great for both weed control and for containing plants you originally purchased that have become too successful in your garden and are crowding out their neighbors. It involves placing wet newspapers, at least 10 pages thick around the plants you wish to keep and on top of those you want to kill. The newspapers get overlapped (hence the name lasagna gardening). When you are finished, a top layer of mulch is added to hide the newspapers. This method is so much easier than pulling all the weeds and as the newspapers rot down, they improve the soil. I have a photo on my website that shows the method....See MoreTips on finding pet friendly apartment?
Comments (6)In general, I think it's hard to find apartments that will allow dogs. And many apartments will allow one or two pets, but not three. It's not impossible, but it is going to be harder (as you are discovering), and the choice of apartments is going to be limited. Your child may have to accept a poor location or poor floor plan or some other undesirable in order to keep all three pets. Is it a small dog or a large dog? Some places have weight limits for dogs, as well. Did anyone in your family go to college in the general area where you need the apartment to be? Most colleges and universities keep a list of off-campus housing that's available. I've been able to access such lists as an alum of the school. There might be apartments there that aren't advertised elsewhere. In my area, there are a lot of apartments and a high rental rate. As a result, there are a lot of property management companies, which manage hundreds and hundreds of apartments. If you can find one, a management company can easily tell you which of their properties allow pets. If there's a local newspaper, check the classifieds. If there a free local "shopper" type paper, check there as well. Check bulletin boards in supermarkets and the like. Ask at the public library if there are any renter resources. Get the word out to as many people as possible that you are looking for a pet friendly apartment--there are a lot of people who have one or two apartments for rent. They can sometimes be more flexible than a large, faceless, management company or the owner of a large, multi-unit building who has to keep the rules the same for everyone. My town has an email mailing list that residents can sign up for and send general emails on. If something like that is available in your area, it's worth a try sending out a message asking for leads....See MorePet Cats: A Question That's Been Puzzling Me
Comments (69)That's an adorable image, faron : ) Our cats don't go outside, but our neighbor's wonderful, dear, sweet cat does. He loves us and we have a place set up for him on our porch with a blanket-lined box if our ... neighbor decides to leave him out all night when it's cold. If we pull into our driveway, he runs out to say hi to us and get petted. If we're going to our car and he sees us, he hops in when we open the door and asks us where 'we're' going. He's a complete love. Re not getting killed? I'm really not sure how they survive except by luck. Coyotes are few and far between here, and not a lot of swooping room for raptors. I don't think he kills birds because he's just not the stalking type. The recent research showed that I think up to 80% of cats are stalkers -- this guy is one of the other 20%. Our other neighbors left their unneutered male cat when they moved to FL, just abandoned him about 7 years ago now. He's turned into a fright, a feral who sprays our patio door and literally throws himself against the glass to attack our cats whenever he sees them on the other side. Only trauma could have caused this kind of change in him. We had to get curtains because of him (I vastly prefer open glass, since we don't have a privacy issue there), but still our cats will just duck under them at times. He's survived a fairly long time for an outdoor cat, so you know he's learned to prey on birds (or mice or something) and fight to protect himself : ( I *dread* the idea that our dear neighbor cat might encounter him one day. That's my biggest fear, more likely than coyotes or raptors....See Morecontrol fire ants in backyard?
Comments (33)Morph said, " You got that from a middle school science fair project??? " Don't get me started. :-) Okay, you got me started. For about 15 years I judged botany in a regional science fair. The contestants were the winners in their schools and were being judged to go on to an international science fair. I insisted on judging high school, because I couldn't relate to the junior high kids. One year I must have arrived late and was assigned to junior high botany. In one project the girl concluded that plants like to watch TV, and therefore, she should be allowed to watch TV. How did she come to that conclusion? She put one plant on top of their TV set such that the plant could not see the screen and another plant in front of the screen so it could watch. The plant on top of the set burned to a crisp, which she failed to attribute to the hot air from the television slowly cooking the plant. But, QED. While my mind was exploding inside, I was careful not to discourage her in my comments. The scary thing is she had won the botany category at her school. Back to fire ants, though, the Super Clean spray I used is far more "active" than, say, 409. If the spray was less expensive, I would use that stuff all day long. As for Amdro and other baits, they do not seem to attract the ants in my experience. They ignore it. The best bait I have found for fire ants is chicken skin. Unfortunately my dog is highly attracted to chicken skin, so making a poisonous bait out of that won't work. The direct approach with the Super Clean and also with the Medina Orange Oil does work for me. Ants cannot ignore it when I pour it on them. I don't recall if I or anyone has mentioned that ants are farmers in this thread. They bring food stuffs to the mound and let bacteria and fungi grow on it. Then they eat the bacteria and fungi. Sugar ant farms are easily disrupted with yeast. If you can introduce excess yeast to the mound, that will ruin their food supply and they "go away." For sugar ants I have been successful with a sugar, molasses, and yeast mix. I suspect those components mixed as a drench would take care of fire ants, but I have not tried it....See Moreyardtractor1
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