calling any one from missouri

[jthornton]

Molly is molting, for the last few days there were feathers all over the place.


JT

 

[jthornton]

And we have radish sign...


Still trying to figure out why I have 8' tall tomato plants and read in a few places if you have indeterminate tomatoes they just keep growing and growing and growing and when they get as tall as you want start pruning. All is not lost as so it seems you can take the pruned bits and cut off a couple of branches and stick in a bucket of water and they will form roots.


One of them died pretty quick so when I take them out to plant this weekend I'll try and see what I might have did different to that one you can see hanging straight down. They have been in the bucket since Saturday and I think I can see some roots forming, I'll check them closer this weekend.

I've learned a lot about growing tomatoes in the last two years and now know enough to know that there is a lot more to learn...

JT

 

[SueT]

Another wooly bear (?) that's almost all tan ---means a very mild winter!

And the Spitzhauben youngsters at 4 months old....

 

[jthornton]

Is the wooly bear the one that stings?

Those Spitzhauben's just crack me up every time you post a photo of them.

JT

 

[jthornton]

This is Fred. He builds his webs outside the back door, and invariably we walk thru part of it each morning. But he doesn't give up. He stays out of the middle of the walk zone, and even if he loses a strand, the web is still usable. Here he is repairing the damage yet again.....

That must be cool to have a self repairing screen door...

JT

 

[SueT]

Is the wooly bear the one that stings?

oh gosh, I don't know. I held one the other day and it didn't hurt me....

 

[karenerwin]

That must be cool to have a self repairing screen door...

JT

I don't think so. I have held lots and lots of them (even as a child ) and have never been stung.
I think the stinging ones have things that stick up that look like feathers or fuzzy antenna and have white on their bodies. ( But I could be wrong about that).

 

[SueT]

Moonshine, the Sebright, mother of those 4 month old youngsters at top of page, is broody again! I have no fertile eggs to give her, nor do I want more chicks right now. So she's in the broody jail in the basement listening to the radio.

 

[jthornton]

I don't think so. I have held lots and lots of them (even as a child ) and have never been stung.
I think the stinging ones have things that stick up that look like feathers or fuzzy antenna and have white on their bodies. ( But I could be wrong about that).

Looks like the risk of finding a stinging caterpillar in Missouri is a bit rare. However in the southern states the risk is much higher and having lived on and near the gulf coast many times once stung I never forget!

JT

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Moonshine, the Sebright, mother of those 4 month old youngsters at top of page, is broody again! I have no fertile eggs to give her, nor do I want more chicks right now. So she's in the broody jail in the basement listening to the radio.
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I have a hen that is broody right now too...

She’s the one that hatched some ducks earlier in the year...

so far I’m just letting her set on some golf balls ... hoping she’ll hatch a new set of clubs ... which I guess I’d sell, since I don’t golf