What did you do in the garden today?

[Beer can]

Living in a hardwood forest, we are overrun with squirrels. Our home is a log cabin and they are sytematically eating it. I hear them at the crack of dawn gnawing on the porch posts and railings trying to wear down their teeth. We have some nice iron skillets and I may have to look in my LL Bean cookbook for squirrel recipes.

When I was a kid mom would parboil them to get the meat off the bone, dredge the pieces in flour and fry in butter
I like them in pot-pies also.

 

[Beer can]

You could get a small fortune for those birds in FL.

I was just reading about the population of wild monkey's in FL, crazy.

 

[Beer can]

Picking dry beans, shelled about a half gallon of blacks last night while watching T.V.
Only picked about six foot of the rows, have tons more to do before wet weather rots them. Saving the yucky looking one's to cook up for the chickens.

 

[chickmom3941]

The pumpkins & winter squash are starting to get lots of fruits - the problem is, I doubt they can get full size before we start getting frost. We had a real cool August, so they didn't grow very well. Now the last few days have been around 90 degrees. Crazy weather!

In the spring we had several pots that had "mystery seedlings" in them. They usually came up in bunches, like 10-12 seedlings all bunched together. It looked so strange (like alien plants), and I have no idea why they grew in groups like that. We thought they looked like a certain flower, so hubs put them in the greenhouse. Well, our suspicions were confirmed, they have started blooming - they are beautiful sunflowers! Smaller ones. So now I have 7 big pots of sunflowers I can distribute around the yard!

 

[chickmom3941]

I was just reading about the population of wild monkey's in FL, crazy.

There are wild monkeys in FL? Well, why not - they have just about every species known to man there (exaggerating)! The pythons need something to eat!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Maybe it's just too early for my brain to comprehend things , but I am totally lost after reading your post! First, I had no idea what a pink & grey galah was (til I saw the photo of the cutie below), then I'm trying to understand why they were wrecking your bunny houses! Are the houses made out of something tasty, or were they after your bunnies? Probably a dumb question, but now I'm curious...

I am a bird fancier and just love cockatoos, plus i know the op is in Australia. Cockatoos love to chew things up. Sometimes they are trying to make a nesting site. They are infamous for destroying crops. Farmers shoot them.

 

[CapricornFarm]

There are wild monkeys in FL? Well, why not - they have just about every species known to man there (exaggerating)! The pythons need something to eat!

Yes, i think there is a population that started from some escaped monkies during a movie filming if i am not mistaken. There are also flocks of conures. I have seen love birds as well. I myself almost lost my parrotlet but i managed to talk him down out of the tree and onto my shoulder.

 

[CapricornFarm]

The pumpkins & winter squash are starting to get lots of fruits - the problem is, I doubt they can get full size before we start getting frost. We had a real cool August, so they didn't grow very well. Now the last few days have been around 90 degrees. Crazy weather!

In the spring we had several pots that had "mystery seedlings" in them. They usually came up in bunches, like 10-12 seedlings all bunched together. It looked so strange (like alien plants), and I have no idea why they grew in groups like that. We thought they looked like a certain flower, so hubs put them in the greenhouse. Well, our suspicions were confirmed, they have started blooming - they are beautiful sunflowers! Smaller ones. So now I have 7 big pots of sunflowers I can distribute around the yard!

I am sure to get nothing from my watermelons and pumpkins this year. I planted late. Basically i just wanted to see how they would grow. I think they need sun all day.

 

[lazy gardener]

My rabbits live in converted cubby houses. They are "cheap" (as in cheap imported materials, not cheap in price) prefab cubbies. One day a couple of pink and grey galahs decided to come and eat them. They came back several times and did a substantial amount of damage before moving on. I couldn't believe it. I have a pink and grey and she is nice, these 2 were diabolical. They had the nerve to look/"smile" at me with their cute little cocky faces while they were wrecking my bunny houses.

I had to do a google. Here's what I found: http://www.arkive.org/galah/cacatua-roseicapilla/

 

[GardenTillers44]

I was just reading about the population of wild monkey's in FL, crazy.

There will be a lot more than monkeys, pythons, iguanas, monitor lizards, Quaker parakeets, etc, etc. loose in Florida going forward. A new ark was just opened up with Irma. Hurricanes speed up the invasive species release process. Hurricane David was a major player, especially with the reptiles and birds from damaged homes and breeder facilities around Miami and Homestead. Seems about anything can survive in Florida.