Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Cindlady]

Hi All!

I read the posts and decided my head had turned to mush. Can't recall what I read

Night All!

 

[Terri O]

Hi all---just checking in so you know I am not dead! (and neither is that fox!) Oh well...I have a literal TON of baby muskovy ducks to sell. Also barnyard mix that I think I will grow to POL and then decide which I want to keep. My goal is to have a nice egg flock that ALL GO IN AT NIGHT. THen I can pick and choose which ones I want to procreate. Keep a few roos in the bachelor pad. Sell all the ducks but a few before winter. Not sure about the geese ATM....they do keep the grass down nicely!

What a plan hey? Heading out to weed...nice and hazy sunny today! TerriO

 

[jvls1942]

good morning,

this morning the lady from New Albany , Penna arrived and picked up her big girl puppy,,
then I went and picked up 200# of ground oats and corn at the feed mill..
went into their retail store and had breakfast ,
came home, emptied all the bags into the feed bins and was all finished before 9 AM.

one of the gooses is sitting on some really old outdated goose eggs.. while I was filling the feed bins, I heard a loud BANG !! one of those old eggs exploded right under her.. it stunk like heII ..
she just calmly ate it ..

.........jiminwisc..........

 

[irishrovr]

good morning,

this morning the lady from New Albany , Penna arrived and picked up her big girl puppy,,
then I went and picked up 200# of ground oats and corn at the feed mill..
went into their retail store and had breakfast ,
came home, emptied all the bags into the feed bins and was all finished before 9 AM.

one of the gooses is sitting on some really old outdated goose eggs.. while I was filling the feed bins, I heard a loud BANG !! one of those old eggs exploded right under her.. it stunk like heII ..
she just calmly ate it ..

.........jiminwisc..........

EEEEWWWW!

 

[jvls1942]

Quote: that's right,, I could smell it from 20 feet away,,

 

[wyoDreamer]

@jvls1942 My sister had volunteer tomatoes in her garden one year. The tomatoes were fairly good eating and when she went to pull the plants at the end of the season, it turned out the potatoes and tomatoes had cross-pollinated the year before and all the volunteer plants had smallish potatoes on the roots.

 

[jvls1942]

@jvls1942 My sister had volunteer tomatoes in her garden one year. The tomatoes were fairly good eating and when she went to pull the plants at the end of the season, it turned out the potatoes and tomatoes had cross-pollinated the year before and all the volunteer plants had smallish potatoes on the roots.

can they do that ? really ? what a space saver that could be ..

a friend asked me;
if something eats the potato blossoms, will she still get potatoes ?
it seems something nipped off her blossoms..
what would do such a thing ?

........jiminwisc......

 

[wyoDreamer]

Potatoes and tomatoes are both from the nightshade family, they are closely related - that's why you shouldn't plant them in succession in the same place. They have many of the same diseases and pests. According to an article from Purdue Extension, the potato plant will produce fruits in the right conditions, but those fruits are high in solanine which is toxic to humans and should not be eaten.

The plant that my sister had was a tomato with an average to slightly watery taste (She doesn't like tomatoes so the taste was good for her) and the potatoes were not very big and I don't know if they ate them or not.

There is a nursery in the UK that grafts a tomato plant onto potato root stock so they get the best of both plants. It is called a TomTato.

 

[Firstchic]

Gross, Gross, Gross. She ate it?

 

[jvls1942]

Gross, Gross, Gross. She ate it?

yes she did.. I was curious so I watched to see what she would do about it,,
.... ya gotta keep the nest clean, you know..