calling any one from missouri

[jthornton]

Ok I chickened out and brought the Roma and Japanese Pepper plants inside for the night. The weather forecast is for 41F tonight.

JT

 

[SueT]

We got down to 30º on and our tomatoes and peppers are still fine. Ditto for the okra. We are so tired of okra! Zero fall color here, well, the walnut leaves are yellow, but we never have brilliant colors here.

 

[microchick]

I had a few late squash plants that are toast.It got down to 30 here two nights in a row. So are my zenia plants. I didn't find any ice on the stock tank though. We have a lot of white oak and red oak along with hickory. We mostly get yellows and reds. Not brilliant yellows and reds but 'rustic' type of color. When it happens I'll get a picture.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I saw some ‘burning bush’ (Euonymus) just starting to turn red ... but that’s about it for fall colors from the KC area down to south central MO this weekend ...

... someone told me that the prediction was for peak colors to be late this year ... around Nov 10 in the Show Me State... so ?

I’m hearing a lot of geese in the sky tonight, as they head south, so maybe they know something

 

[microchick]

Only thing I'm hearing are coyotes. I read this summer that when the yotes howl, they listen for responses and when the next breeding season comes around, their litter size will be in response to the 'population' they hear howling back at them. So when I hear them howl, I get our 5 cattle dogs out and get them to howling back at the coyotes.....don't need more yotes after the local chickens etc.

Nov 10 is a late peak. I told DH today the cold snap may bring on an early rut in the deer tho.

Haven't seen any geese or duck flying yet but we get that more in the spring where we live instead of the winter migration for some reason.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I saw some ‘burning bush’ (Euonymus) just starting to turn red ... but that’s about it for fall colors from the KC area down to south central MO this weekend ...

... someone told me that the prediction was for peak colors to be late this year ... around Nov 10 in the Show Me State... so ?

I’m hearing a lot of geese in the sky tonight, as they head south, so maybe they know something

How's the armored diller situation?

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Only thing I'm hearing are coyotes. I read this summer that when the yotes howl, they listen for responses and when the next breeding season comes around, their litter size will be in response to the 'population' they hear howling back at them. So when I hear them howl, I get our 5 cattle dogs out and get them to howling back at the coyotes.....don't need more yotes after the local chickens etc.

Nov 10 is a late peak. I told DH today the cold snap may bring on an early rut in the deer tho.

Haven't seen any geese or duck flying yet but we get that more in the spring where we live instead of the winter migration for some reason.

I won’t go into that coyote thing too much, but basically there is a very good book on the natural history of coyotes that covered the phenomenon that you mention, unfortunately the ‘internet’ distilled out all of the nuisance and detail of it and so it gets repeated that they will expand exponentially if they hear no howls back... in reality it’s far more complex...

... but I used to have a Australian cattle dog/beagle mix that would yodel back at them like that... it was really fun to listen to him do that!

 

[OhZark Biddies]

How's the armored diller situation?

I got back home too late to do much more than count heads in the chicken coop tonight, but I’m a’skeered to see what diller damage might have occurred in my absence with the cool weather here the last few days....

... ‘diller tillers’ seem to run best at around 40-60 degrees so the yard might be a disaster in the morning

These two worked over the sweet potato vines recently and have been coming back quite regularly

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I got back home too late to do much more than count heads in the chicken coop tonight, but I’m a’skeered to see what diller damage might have occurred in my absence with the cool weather here the last few days....

... ‘diller tillers’ seem to run best at around 40-60 degrees so the yard might be a disaster in the morning

These two worked over the sweet potato vines recently and have been coming back quite regularly

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Our current digger tearing up the place is moles.
I used to have a dog that would dig them up and kill them.
Now I have the ducks. . so I'm afraid to use the poison worms. I've got my grandpas mole traps. . I suppose I could set them and put buckets over them to keep the birds out. Suppose that would work?

 

[microchick]

Will ducks try to break into those tom cat bait traps for mice?

We have 5 cattle dogs a Jack Russell/border collie mix and a border collie/walker coon hound mix. The JR mix loves to dig up moles, voles and mice. We trade mole and vole runs for ankle busting pot holes in our fields but she sure is tough on those varmints.

I wish I could remember where I read that article. Wasn't a book. Seemed to be a magazine article close as I can remember.