Kye Goods

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Kye Goods wrote:Most of the tree bark I'm dealing with is coming from conifer. So I'm a little cautious about using it around deciduous trees or any of my garden.. but I do have a lot of pine trees in the desert that get a little too hot and need good mulch so I kind of just layer them around the base of the tree as a mulch that provides shade and collects condensation that keeps t the soil moist

Its an old lasting myth that conifer are poisonous to other plants.
It alters the PH level very little and the only thing is that it decomposes slower, hence it releases less fertilizer in the same time like other mulch would do.

The Blueberry farms in Germany prefer conifer/pine mulch so the soil stays within the PH ranges as it has been prepared for blueberries.

Pine needles and bark contain compounds that can act as inhibitors to the growth of some other plants and tress, a phenomenon known as
allelopathy. While there is a common myth that pine needles destroy plants by making the soil highly acidic, studies indicate that the primary cause of sparse vegetation under pine trees is actually these allelopathic chemicals

Be aware that a lot of barrels have some pretty funky paint embedded in their metal and it can take a real long time for them to burn off. I regret making a burn barrel out of a painted barrel.. if I could do it again, I would go find a stainless steel barrel or something that hasn't been painted. When it's really cooking even after months of burning, I still get toxic smoke coming off.

This is such a hard question. I love birds..

Hummingbirds are amazing and eat mosquitoes and come right up to me and look right in my face while hovering.

We have Canyon runs, and I love how they are upside down and sideways and running along the trees. They seem to be goofy.

I'm in love with the common robins. They're so brave around my dogs and they're just kind of a domesticated pet that I have around my property. They always appear when I have water running somewhere.

There's a kingfisher who thinks he owns the river and I can hear him from a quarter of a mile away, going up and down the river telling everyone that he owns it.

I've always really liked magpies, but I've come to kind of dislike having them around my property. They make a lot of noise.. and they're kind of bullies to the other birds and read their. They also have a terrible habit of spreading my dog poop all over the place.

I love ravens but they have such a long-term memory. Some kid 15 years before I lived here used to shoot at them with his airsoft gun and they never forgot. I have just started winning trust with them again.

I have some Blue Jays that are so incredibly brave around my cats. They have no fear.

Flickers are absolutely beautiful, but they're kind of dumb and they tend to always build Ness in my eaves of my shed and they always spook me when they fly out.

I have some turkeys in my area that get pushed down from the mountains when we get a lot of snow. They tend to stalk me so when I go on my nightly walks with my dogs the next day they'll be turkey tracks that have literally followed my old tracks in the snow. They're very curious. And I love watching them fly up to the top of the trees at night to sleep.., they're way more capable than I gave them credit for

It's my opinion that you should not ignore something like this and do everything you can from preventing it from getting out of hand. Once they get embedded, it can be a real problem and even if that specific group dies another group can come in and start adding onto an old nest.

I'm not sure what kind you're dealing with if their paper nest wasps you can crumble up white paper and hang them on little strings around your house and they will feel that they're infringing on another colony it might leave.

There's a guy on YouTube I really like, and he uses a shop vac with little soapy water in it. If you can reach it, I would suggest trying to capture them with the shop vac and even taping the shop vac in the location and banging on the wall and get them to all come out and get sucked up by the vacuum..

This is crazy that this is a 10 year old thread still going

Recently had a client we started smelling something that was dead and couldn't find it

After much searching, I found a dead deer underneath some shrubs., in it already been there for a while, and it just wasn't gonna be worth extracting the remains. So I built a big compost pile on top of it. A bunch of leaves and weeds and some stuff from the kitchen and some mulch.

By the end of the summer, it had been completely digested by the pile

And my client never had to find out about it

Calcium can be a hard thing to get into my dog's diet. So I clean and dry them out and put them in my little coffee grinder, and sprinkle a very small bit in their food.. I also mix it in with my finish compost. I've also given it to my roses.

Most of the tree bark I'm dealing with is coming from conifer. So I'm a little cautious about using it around deciduous trees or any of my garden.. but I do have a lot of pine trees in the desert that get a little too hot and need good mulch so I kind of just layer them around the base of the tree as a mulch that provides shade and collects condensation that keeps t the soil moist

I've always had a minimal income and never really needed to do my taxes. I survived on Barter and the things I grew..

But things have taken a turn, and I'm starting to make more money with my work

I'm really nervous approaching the IRS. Does anyone have any insight or advice?

I'm building in a small little village that has powerlines. Recently, I heard a rumor that the county will force me to plug into the power grid in order to pass my final inspection.

Does anyone have experience with this?

A friend of mine told me to play the game and wire the house to code and plug into the grid. Once I pass all my inspections and move in,  just stop paying my bill and get disconnected and switch over to my own power.

In my area, the power company keeps raising the prices so I really don't wanna be plugged into their game. I don't use that much power and I would be fine on solar, but I don't wanna get into a headbutting situation with the county over it.

I appreciate any advice or insight
Thank you