jjannie's 2021 Garden

[jjannie]

Those panels look great, now that you have them cleaned up. Do you think those leaf cutters got into the panels before you bought them or after you got them?

 Definitely before. Even the box had a lot cut leaves loose inside it. We had to use a long wire to break the leaves apart, then we used a long piece of weed eater line with pipe cleaners attached to one end that we'd run down the channel and out other end to remove all dust. The channels that had larvae in them were very sticky and almost waxy which make them extra hard to clean out. Some we even had to drill first using a really long bit as they were stuffed too hard to get wire through.

I bet that was one of the reasons you got such a good deal on the GH.

Actually the people selling the house were renovating it. They had 2 GHs that were left by a previous resident that had been stored out side. Since the boxes were still sealed by factory they gave us the choice which one we wanted. We are sure they could have had no idea those sneaky bugs were getting through and doing all that damage - since we got them before the warm up began or they would have maybe seen the bees coming and going once again from those boxes. Still feel we got a good deal and we'll have some parts if we ever need them in future.