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Maker's Monday

Trying out a new weekly thread idea.

This would be a thread for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers. We can coordinate weekly standup type meetings if their is interest.

@ArjinFerman, @Turniper, and myself all had some initial interest.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

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I just turned a can of bad spray polyacrylic into some fake spider webbing for D&D scatter terrain. https://anarchydice.wordpress.com/2024/08/11/spider-webs/

I am also unsuccessfully fighting against rabbit hordes. I've tried coffee grounds, dog hair, rabbit spray, lemons, and companion planting garlic. I already trapped 3 but my bell peppers have been devoured and I didn't get any lettuce to grow larger than 3". Any home-remedies or suggestions I can try?

Any home-remedies or suggestions I can try?

IIRC the warner brothers documentaries from the middle of last century - they are unstoppable and any clever contraption will backfire. (sorry the setup for the joke was just too good)

What we did when we had birds eating our grapes - we just shot a couple and left them in the sun to desiccate and tied them at random intervals in the fields. It worked. Not sure if applicable for hares.

Worst case - get a cookbook and eat the trapped ones.

We had to put an 8' tall fence around our garden, mostly for deer. One day we did notice a bunny snuck under the door, so I had to close that gap. That seems to have worked.

The insects, drought, and hail storms on the other hand... My poor wife is totally demotivated after the carnage this summer wrought on all her hard work.

We put up a deer fence, which purported to also keep out smaller critters by having narrower mesh at the bottom, but after it was up we learned that it wasn't actually narrow enough to keep out young rabbits, so we attached a layer of chicken wire around the perimeter. Squirrels and birds still get in, though; there's no keeping them out.

On the gardening subreddits people also recommend wire wastebaskets from the dollar store, turned upside down, to protect smaller plants. It's a decent solution for those who don't want to deal with actual fencing.

I might do that for my blueberry plants that keep getting chomped down during the winter...

Yeah all the rain this summer has been hitting me in the only plant doing well, my tomatoes. I can usually keep the recurrent septoria down with regular spraying but the wetness this year is keeping the tomatoes really weak.

Should still get a bumper jalapeno crop at least, maybe make some jalapeno pineapple tequila again. Also got a great basil harvest to make and freeze pesto.

The insects, drought, and hail storms on the other hand... My poor wife is totally demotivated after the carnage this summer wrought on all her hard work.

Yeah, my wife's garden has likewise been decimated this year. The only thing that emerged unscathed somewhat surprisingly was her tomatoes, and the herbs in her garden window. But even that I had to rig up a cover for because it got so hot it was baking her seedlings.

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