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Post by garf on Jul 24, 2012 23:13:10 GMT -5
I wonder if leftover dry cat food is any good as fertilizer?
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Post by garf on Jul 25, 2012 15:24:42 GMT -5
My feeding procedure for my cat takes a bag of dry food and divides it into 3 pint ziploc bags. I place food in the dish every 4 hours and take the food up that he doesn't finish. Near the bottom of the ziploc, most of whats left is fine particles. At a certain point, I break out a new bag and dump the old one. I'm thinking about mixing the remainder into a container. I guess it may draw stray cats. My main question is will it help the plants.
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Post by garf on Jul 25, 2012 19:40:41 GMT -5
I doubt it would hurt. I thought more about attracting racoons, possums, rats or mice. That is some transference on my part because I am having such a tough time at home with these critters in the drought. I haven't seen a coon for a long time. I have already killed 2 possum, one with a herd of little ones. I have seen squirrels and rats, but no mice. |
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Post by garf on Aug 2, 2012 20:03:15 GMT -5
2 days ago, I stirred about 2 oz of dry cat food into one of the smaller pots. So far, nothing has disturbed it. After 1 or 2 weeks, I will place a small plant into the pot and see what happens.
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Post by garf on Aug 22, 2012 17:03:52 GMT -5
So far, nothing has touched the cat food in the pots.
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Post by garf on Sept 8, 2012 16:14:50 GMT -5
To date nothing has bothered the containers that I have mixed the cat food into. I just mixed another batch of cat food into a large tub. We will see.
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Post by garf on Sept 9, 2012 19:16:52 GMT -5
I just went out to do some planting. The large tub that was intact yesterday has been totally dug up today. Time to do some night hunting. Luckily there was nothing planted there yet.
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Post by garf on Nov 12, 2012 22:34:21 GMT -5
Today a container with only Tomato Tone got dug up. I set up a trap with cat food bait and caught a small possum. Tomorrow I dispose of the carcass.
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Post by garf on Nov 13, 2012 22:31:43 GMT -5
Done.
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Post by garf on Nov 15, 2012 10:45:23 GMT -5
2 days after resetting the trap, I caught a large possum.
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Post by garf on Nov 15, 2012 17:08:11 GMT -5
This one got lucky. It got shipped out intact. It was released alive a few miles from my place.
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Post by garf on Nov 20, 2012 18:26:09 GMT -5
Possum #3 got a free trip to the park.  |
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Post by garf on Nov 24, 2012 19:16:23 GMT -5
The trap was tripped twice without catching anything. The first time, the bait was eaten. I've never known this trap to fail before.
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