The Home Improvement Thread

[Taco Loco]

Have any of yall tried this? Its supposed to only take a teaspoon per mound to kill.
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I buy bags of SEVIN, I add some corn meal to it, and shake it up in old large parmesan container, the corn meal entices the ants to take the poison down into the colonies.

 

[Anathollo]

Have any of yall tried this? Its supposed to only take a teaspoon per mound to kill.
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Yep I used to use that stuff all the time. Always worked for me.

 

[AlienXtx]

I buy bags of SEVIN, I add some corn meal to it, and shake it up in old large parmesan container, the corn meal entices the ants to take the poison down into the colonies.

hmm might give that a go if this other dont work

Yep I used to use that stuff all the time. Always worked for me.

I'll give it a try

 

[PSU Taco85]

Ill check them out tonight. If I do start, Ill need to take care of my squirrel issue on the DL otherwise Ill get wiped out. Pretty sure with 2 weeks at home I could come up with a way to relocate them w/o issue.

A havahart trap and a 30 gallon trash can, they love to go swimming. Sometimes I even tie a small cinderblock to their leg to remind me of how my elders used to do it

 

[Taco Loco]

A lot of seeds germinated yesterday where the burn pit was and with this light rain for the past few hours, this will definitely help.

 

[tx_shooter]

A lot of seeds germinated yesterday where the burn pit was and with this light rain for the past few hours, this will definitely help.

We probably have a few days of sunshine early next week too. Looks like my weekend is going to be spent hacking the grass and weeds in my yard.

 

[Taco Loco]

We probably have a few days of sunshine early next week too. Looks like my weekend is going to be spent hacking the grass and weeds in my yard.

yes sir, I’m will be doing the same, and hope to finish my Victory Garden, it’s been too dry to mow, and tons of pollen and weeds are 1ft+ tall.
This rain is going to knock a lot of this pollen out of the trees.

I also have a neighbors pasture to shred and disc up, she has zero vegetation worth a crap on there because her horses ate everything and she let it go to firebrush, bullnettle etc. I told would I would not do any work until we get enough rain, nothing worse than try to shred in a desert like pasture. The pasture is in really bad shape, I’ll try and remember to grab a picture, my boys spent all day over there yesterday picking up tree limbs/branches and weedeating around trees and along fence lines.

I just greased everything, and adjusted the mowing height. I bet a 1/4lb of dust/sand came out of the prefilter, it was crazy.

 

[TacoXpo]

Super happy how good my deck is cleaning up for such crappy wood thats very old. Much less damage than if I power washed it, but my arms are dead and I got my first little bit of sunburn of the season

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How's that Tacoma coming along?

 

[Oswego]

How's that Tacoma coming along?

Deck scrubbing was therapy - just took my mind off work.

Havne't been sitting home - been working. Today's my first day working from home and I still have guys on jobsites (last day). Started at 5:15am and taking my first break now. Think I got more work done today than the previous week

 

[Taco Loco]

I was able to get able 5acs mowed between rains.

nothing but invasive weeds, occasional blue bonnets.

 

[Taco Loco]

hmm might give that a go if this other dont work
I'll give it a try

I also have a 2 gallon pump sprayer of liquid sevin and I also add permethrin, this combo works really good.

Permethrin SFR 36.8%

 

[Oswego]

I also have a 2 gallon pump sprayer of liquid sevin and I also add permethrin, this combo works really good.

Permethrin SFR 36.8%

Thats what I use to keep ticks off my clothes so two birds w/one stone type chemical

 

[AlienXtx]

If this shit dont work I'll soak'em in diesel and toss a match

 

[Silverback]

I vote for this method.

 

[Taco Loco]

I vote for this method.

I have a friend that does that, hell I think he even sold some on eBay iirc for $50 to $70 too.

 

[Taco Loco]

I only got a little bit of work done on the Victory Garden, the weather has been quite nasty all day. A few of my pepper plants got damage from either high winds or the short periods of heavy rain. Sunk a 4x4 post in for the gate and wired up the electric fence unit in the shop.

 

[Taco Loco]

High humidity this morning and I noticed some light/mist rain headed our way, so I was able to burn off the burn pit this morning.

After this burns out, I’m closing the pit, if anything/one is missing, there is nothing there to find.\

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March 15th

Today

Sneak peak of Victory Garden, 2 days of rain put me behind schedule.

 

[Taco Loco]

I’m known as Carl Spackler in my yard.

It’s amazing how much destruction these pocket gophers are capable of doing to a yard, this is a nesting mound.

 

[Oswego]

Holly crap!.....and here I am pissed that I have chipmunks, small moles, and squirrels...

 

[Taco Loco]

Holly crap!.....and here I am pissed that I have chipmunks, small moles, and squirrels...

yeah these little phuckers are like underground miniature bull dozers!