Dealing With Rodents in the Garden + Lessons in Small Scale Popcorning

[@MargiPrideaux-md7zn]

Farmer Jesse ... you are fantastic. I love the growers' daily format, and I have adopted your example and now take you into the garden every afternoon. So glad you've started this. It's brilliant. 🧡

[@timhammond4522]

Voles are the bane of northern gardens. No root crop is safe. The best solution I've found is growing in raised beds with hardware cloth bottoms.

[@ursamajor1936]

Ah, yes. It's now the season of reflection here in zone 4. Making assessments and starting the plans for 2025. In gardening, there's never a dull moment and always the anticipation of bigger and better.

[@kushscentedbeard]

Zone 6b here. About 3 weeks ago I didn't even want to clean my beds out but now I can't stop thinking about next season lol

[@alexandralaske9415]

I am very happy that the book is now also available in German and I ordered it straight away

[@baracu]

Voles!! I would love an intellectual approach to voles!! Some region have programs to reintroduce them, we have them occasionally in very healthy soil ….like my gardens …and the challenge to grow anything with a tap root is like wow…voles and moles …not the same but both interesting

[@jamesstandley4584]

Voles have been my nemesis for 2 years now!

[@SereneWingedHorse-kq2pn]

@@jamesstandley4584same

[@classicrocklover5615]

I recently read this advice: older mice and rats are wise. They will let the young ones test and trigger a trap, then they will move in for the bait. SO - put a baited trap out, but do not set it. Allow the rodent to eat the bait out of an unset trap several times before finally setting it. The theory is to get the pest so used to just eating the bait without fear of it being set. Good luck!

[@kapstersmusic]

One trick I found for germinating trays of squash or cucumbers is to completely wrap the tray all the way around with a scrap of floating row cover so that the wrap overlaps underneath the tray. Then nothing gets at your germinating squash or cucumber seeds. No one has ever figured out how to chew through the netting, yet. I also don't use open food compost piles, which is a luxury because I am a home gardener with an above ground rotating compost bin. I also try to turn any yard waste piles frequently, and spread the mulch as soon as it is useful.

[@justinciallella4724]

I put my seedling tables up on 55 gallon plastic barrels. You can add water for thermal mass and rodents can't climb them.

[@stevefromthegarden1135]

The Japanese hullless was good and a heirloom. Pops very white and holds up really well to butter. The popped corn is smaller than the Robust 998. The cobs are smaller than Robust but it produces more of them. My plants were getting up 7+ ft tall.

[@jdsw970]

I love this show, you rock Jessie !

[@carlinagrey8592]

ok..... Jesse first off you nailed my name! yet it was so gracefully slaughtered for suspense first nicely done sir this is Car.....lena! Carlina and you better write that novel "Fuller Gardens" LOved loVed lovED the story or maybe I'm terrified nah I'm ready! dun dun dun!!Collaboration Activated!!! Ag Nerds to the Rescue! please keep up all your hard work you inspire more than you know

[@notillgrowers]

🙌

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

9:41 oh yes I had the mice battle last winter, thankfully we won thanks to our cat Felix. But yes I planted cover crop 10 times just feeding the mice 😂 We made a compromise with our cat and continue to try to eat plants so we started growing cat grass and catnip and putting trays on the floor and around the areas that he would consume plants and now he will pick the cat grass

[@WesternMONo-TillGardening]

Your nametag. 😆We got two barn cats and they rapidly took care of a large population of voles, but they also go after the birds I'm trying to attract to the garden to eat bugs. Luckily I've never had to deal with rodents in the greenhouse.

[@79PoisonBreaker]

As far as popcorn goes, I do really like Glass Gem. It may have to do with crazy colors or how tall it gets, or that it loves to tiller. My personal best is 7 ears from 1 transplant( my season is too short to start from seed), the main stalk had 3 and tillers made 4 more. doesn't pop the biggest but I enjoyed the flavor.

[@joestatuto5287]

Thanks for the great podcast

[@martinacusack9867]

Option to outsmart rat. Try a hanging seed table. Just make sure it is perfectly level or you'll have another mess to deal with.

[@emkn1479]

Appreciate your musings

[@dwightyoder4883]

Mini Blue popcorn is a beautiful crop here in Zone 9a/b. My goddaughter picked it out of a a catalogue. Now when she has a friend over they sit and shell it, then give it to me to pop for them. I am looking for it in larger volume than the small, expensive packet I got from an heirloom seed company.

[@KP-jv1hy]

I just got seeds for this next spring for my first popcorn corn. I got my seeds from baker creek heirlooms

[@MiriamPendleton]

If it's a really big mouse, it could be a vole. Do you find little tunnels? Carrots chewed off from the bottom al la Chip n Dale? That's a vole. Cats are your friend.

[@robertmcauslan6191]

My go to rat trap is the ratonator. It’s a repeater trap that has caught up to 20 at a time for me. You do have to figure out what to do with those rats once trapped but we’ve got hawks around us so we just leave the bodies out for them. It’s really helped us keep the population down to where we only need to set it if we notice them. Otherwise we don’t even see them for most of the year. It can catch squirrels but since it is a live trap they can be released.

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

[@ginkgodog2]

Rats ate my sweet potatoes. War has begun

[@dawn19maria]

Are you sure it was rats? We had voles that ate ours one year. The next year we had small garden snakes and almost no voles!

[@ginkgodog2]

@ Yes I actually saw one when harvesting and trapped one

[@alana8088]

@@ginkgodog2the only way I could

[@nicholasnarcowich9163]

I work 7 days a week, & keep growing what will grow... in the small space I have :-) Mobile home park...

[@richardroadcap7957]

Due to voles, we grow carrots, potatoes and leeks in containers

[@PedroOrtiz-b1h]

A dog came to ny farm on its own , we fed it and he stayed , he would hunt the mice from the field , probably hunted 20 , then one day a female dog shows up, and just like that next day he wa gone 😂 😂

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

I completely agree on corn of all types.. Also in an organic system it's an excellent C4 type plant that can really put a LOT of carbon in the soil! On the death subject, , See also "Graham Hancock". cheers! 🌱

[@gregholl5011]

That animal is a troll! Paint your barn door black. They will run into the door thinking it is open. Then the troll will move to Elbow Lake MN! 😅

[@s-c..]

Those elephants hearing ghosts 😬. What kind of effect would that have on them? Do they tell the others? Do they spend days searching for them? What a mind funk!

[@notillgrowers]

Right? Honestly, my first thought was, "Wow what a brutal study!"

[@reapersridge7992]

It is hunting season tho. 🦌🏹💯

[@nancyseery2213]

I just have a mid-sized home garden, but what would you say is the most important thing to do in the fall to have your garden ready for spring??????? Thanks for all of the info you provide! Never mind, I found your answer.....

[@ursamajor1936]

I put down rock fertilizers and mulch with ground up leaves, branches and brambles.

[@lambsquartersfarm]

Have you tried Tap Dancer from High Mowing? It's OP... I'll be trying that out this year.

[@dorcasrodriguez2901]

❤❤❤

[@shermdog6969]

Im trying to grow A popcorn. Literally ive tried for 2 years and have yet to have any get to maturity. My 20x10 area guess isn't big enough. Lots of sun, fertilizer and water and they tastle at 2ft tall both years.

[@ursamajor1936]

I'd advise rabbit manure, mulch and watering.

[@kathyrichmond5835]

Anyone use the bicarbonate mixed in flour method? Apparently rats can't let off

[@pjn7136]

You finally broke me, I became a Patreon supporter today. Hopefully I will get a shoutout tomorrow? 😂

[@notillgrowers]

Will you ever! Thank you 🙌

[@gregholl5011]

Oleic acid. Like margarine? 🤔

[@ajb.822]

Since you enjoy growing corn so much, and the whole ecosystem, you may get a kick outta my pic here ( the circle there that goes w my "name"). I think if u touch it, you can get the larger view - maybe it takes u to my "channel" and from there u can, so, whatever anyone wants to take the time to do.. . Anyway, it's a frog tucked up in a leaf on corn I grew a couple summers ago. Happened to look down as I was passing by, and rare time I also had my phone on me out there ( I have no signal there). So awesome :). Thanking God for it still... .

[@charliefoxtrot6017]

Trying five varieties of corn this season so was interested in your corn shucker. Found several DIT designs online but thought this one might also interest you and others as easier on the wrist and quick: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2HTq4h5iM95gKssi=-yKxpzbnNU7p0_qM. Also, I sow corn in tree tube pots for added depth, place the pots in a foam box (or a plastic window box or plastic crate) with 4-5cm sand in base and some drainage holes above sand level. I then fold a piece of metal aviary netting over the top and tie it down …. Had to sow corn three times one year until I discovered the native bush rats, antechinus, were stealing the seed.

[@Freeland-Farm]

Thanks. That's worth making. Gives me some ideas for processing sweet corn, too.

[@mhkoo1]

Shawn Woods invented the best trap for mice: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6C4f4yMhJuKf7s and yes, they are not killed in the trap.

[@healthyfitmom]

Oh this is awesome!!