calling any one from missouri

[shawluvsbirds]

 

[jthornton]

@shawluvsbirds remember those tiny strawberry plants? The ones that don't put out runners? Looks like this one didn't get the memo!


And one actually has a flower, so I just might get a strawberry this year like the label said... I found a tan cricket looking thing eating the leaves and sprayed with malathion and have not seen any more.


The biggest one of them all being guarded by my feral cat Woody!


Seems I didn't kill everything in the raised beds as we get a cucumber or two from time to time and replacement plants are doing well even if it late in the season.

JT

 

[shawluvsbirds]

@shawluvsbirds remember those tiny strawberry plants? The ones that don't put out runners? Looks like this one didn't get the memo!
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And one actually has a flower, so I just might get a strawberry this year like the label said... I found a tan cricket looking thing eating the leaves and sprayed with malathion and have not seen any more.
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The biggest one of them all being guarded by my feral cat Woody!
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Seems I didn't kill everything in the raised beds as we get a cucumber or two from time to time and replacement plants are doing well even if it late in the season.

JT

it's about time huh.
Are your tomato plants still alive?

 

[jthornton]

Are your tomato plants still alive?

The ones on the deck are starting to produce but the raised beds got killed for the most part, the rear of the center ones are still there and some new ones I got from my neighbor and some rejects from HD. Seems like the reed fence helps a lot with keeping them from getting too much sun in the afternoon. The cucumbers came back to life after putting it up.

All I can do is observe, improvise and adapt and try to not do the bad things again last year. I almost got it right this year... we'll see what happens next year.

JT

 

[SueT]

I don't know for sure, I'm thinking maybe it's time to find out.....

I let the orphans out, removed the dividers. It was uneventful, no one went after them, not even Moonshine. They all basically ignored each other, hens, chicks, etc. Really, they already knew each other having lived side by side for 3 weeks.
Everyone is busy exploring the 'Outback' of the run which has so many weeds it's easy for a little bird to get lost.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

BlackBerry cobbler.. Straight out of the oven. If y'all leave now you might get here while it's still warm. .
Sue, you might wait about 10 minutes or so I'd hate for you to burn your mouth.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

View attachment 1858589 View attachment 1858590 BlackBerry cobbler.. Straight out of the oven. If y'all leave now you might get here while it's still warm. .
Sue, you might wait about 10 minutes or so I'd hate for you to burn your mouth.

Wow, Martha Stewart!

That looks almost too purty to eat

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Wow, Martha Stewart!

That looks almost too purty to eat

My grandma was pretty well known in these here parts for her pie makin skills. I been rollin pie crust since before I could walk. Grandma has been gone for several years now. . guess who gets to make all the pies for family holidays now.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I can't believe no-one has shown up for pie. I even left the light on for ya and everything.


Random duck pic.

 

[SueT]

So we've had a raccoon saga this last week finally concluded with a dead raccoon this morning. 2 hens dead because I was really late closing up coop, ran out when there was squawking and chased off a big coon. I wasn't proud to admit it was my fault. Lost my favorite hen and my least favorite hen. Raccoon kept coming back, tearing up stuff, digging under things, trying to get into coop and tiny coop, which it eventually tore open killing those orphan cockerels. They had an uncertain fate anyway, but it was war.
This monster tripped the traps, turned them over, stole the bait night after night. It repeatedly tried to get in coop, and tore tomatoes off the vines. Finally, I had traps wired together, staked to ground, clad in old metal license plates to prevent reaching in. I wired a slightly open can of sardines just past the trigger. And I caught him last night! We don't have a gun, so I called our neighbor who brought a pellet gun. It's a 0.177 caliber and it quickly killed our varmint. I did not know you could kill raccoons w an air gun. So we plan to get one.

I wrote about this today on centrachid's new thread about using predator carcasses to grow maggots for his chickens. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/converting-predator-carcasses-into-chick-feed.1324727/ I had asked him how he kills the raccoons, and saw that a lot of people also wanted to know. Subsequently there are a lot of posts about pellet guns instead of maggots.
Anyway, that's whats happening in our neck of the woods............