Green thumb is itching, anyone else?

[Kassaundra]

Everything that I kept "alive" throught the drought has taken off wildly since the cooler temps and rain. I am trying to get a fall garden in hopefully this week it will be done.

 

[queenchick16]

Part of the 15 pounds of peppers I picked the other day,organic purple pole beans and the plant they came from I had to get a pic of it because it is literally growing over the AC. I dont think I was disappointed with any of the seeds I got from Burpee this year.

 

[albert w]

Same. My bell pepper plants never once gave me a pepper this spring. Now they've exploded with.. NOT bell peppers. Dad-gummed mislabeled plants!

Hahaha! Dontcha hate that! Well, sometimes it's a nice surprise. I had a surprise tomato bush last year. A Beefsteak was in a six pack of Romas. For a while I thought I had the world champion Roma.

 

[Kassaundra]

Some pics of my morning glories this morning

 

[rancher hicks]

Some pics of my morning glories this morning

I love morning glories and they are easy to grow. While they are annuals here mine came back year after year since the soil was so soft. This was at the old house and I'm afraid to plant them here since they reseed and I'm afraid the seeds are poisonous to my chickens.

Do you know if this is the case?

 

[Kassaundra]

Morning glory seeds for humans are a pretty significant halucinagen, but I do not know the phsyology on poultry. But this I do know my chickens have access to this area all the time and love to sit in it's shade and are still alive and healthy. I would say from my experience if it is poisonous they are smart enough not to eat it.

 

[rancher hicks]

Morning glory seeds for humans are a pretty significant halucinagen, but I do not know the phsyology on poultry. But this I do know my chickens have access to this area all the time and love to sit in it's shade and are still alive and healthy. I would say from my experience if it is poisonous they are smart enough not to eat it.

or maybe their stoned out of their minds. Do you notice a reduction in eggs when they sit there? or find eggs in strange places?

 

[albert w]

I got a call from a friend last night. He said,"Get over here, quick!"
I drove the five miles out to his farm and saw him standing in the pasture surrounded be dead and dying cattle! At least ten of them. While we were standing there the bull collapsed!
The vet arrived, inspected and looked around. He determined the cattle had eaten "Japanese yew" (I think that's what he called it. He said there are a dozen common names).
Couldn't believe what we were seeing! Anyone ever hear of this??

 

[queenchick16]

I got a call from a friend last night. He said,"Get over here, quick!"
I drove the five miles out to his farm and saw him standing in the pasture surrounded be dead and dying cattle! At least ten of them. While we were standing there the bull collapsed!
The vet arrived, inspected and looked around. He determined the cattle had eaten "Japanese yew" (I think that's what he called it. He said there are a dozen common names).
Couldn't believe what we were seeing! Anyone ever hear of this??

Al sorry to hear about your friends herd.while I worked at the Vet School at Cornell I was allowed to go to infectious rounds where a case was presented where several cows died from ingesting yew plants. I think they can even be poisoned from a plant that is dead. Sorry again carol

 

[rancher hicks]

AL, sorry to hear of your friends situation. I didn't know these types of things happened.