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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • We sprinkle a line of food-grade diatomaceous earth outside right next to each of our doors, so the outside ants would have to cross it to get inside.

    We also got a plate that’s larger than our pet’s food bowl. We put diatomaceous earth on the plate and then put the pet bowl on top of that.

    Finally we put out a borax-sugar solution. I drilled some ant-sized holes in the side of several plastic containers that have tight lids (we have an indoor bunny and I didn’t want her getting into the borax even though it shouldn’t be enough to affect her). I soak cotton balls in the borax solution, put them in the plastic containers, and place the containers along any ant trails I notice.

    Borax solution: 1 cup warm water, 5 Tbsp + 1 tsp white/caster sugar, 1 Tbsp borax. Mix until dissolved.






  • Sounds like a great start! If that’s a current photo, I’d recommend removing the flowers from your tomatoes if you haven’t yet. Once they start flowering they tend to stop growing because they switch gears to making fruit instead. I usually just use my fingers and pinch each flower cluster off where it attaches to the tomato stem.








  • For our pet rabbit I bought a clay plant saucer (the part you would put under the pot to catch extra water). I flip it upside down and put an ice pack under it. Then a towel between the ice pack and floor to soak up condensation. The ice cools the clay without her being in direct contact with the ice.

    Also frozen water bottle in a sock she can lay next to on the extra hot days.