texashuntingforum.com logo
Main Menu
Advertisement
Affiliates
Advertisement
Newest Members
Cantillon88, mlhjr1, Willhunt, SammyD308, wpolo02
72679 Registered Users
Top Posters(All Time)
dogcatcher 110,840
bill oxner 91,416
SnakeWrangler 66,332
stxranchman 60,296
Gravytrain 46,950
Stub 45,482
RKHarm24 44,585
rifleman 44,461
Forum Statistics
Forums46
Topics545,983
Posts9,829,507
Members87,679
Most Online25,604
Feb 12th, 2024
Print Thread
Page 321 of 328 1 2 319 320 321 322 323 327 328
Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Ol Thumper] #8871123 06/20/23 07:32 PM
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
KRoyal Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
Originally Posted by Sniper John
bird

Originally Posted by Ol Thumper
We had several like that and ours ended up being caused by Mockingbirds,


Thanks, makes sense, what about the black hole on the bottom? Same thing or something different?

Any pointers on getting the birds to leave them alone?


[Linked Image]



Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8871128 06/20/23 07:47 PM
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 6,276
Ol Thumper Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 6,276
I’m definitely not a vegetable guru and wouldn’t have had a clue if I didn’t witness the birds pecking at them so I’m not sure about the black hole.

We had a couple plastic owl decoys from a previous bird issue that failed miserably then but I put them on the top of t posts this time and it’s keeping the birds for now. I’m sure they’ll be back at them in a few days but for now it’s working.,

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Ol Thumper] #8871130 06/20/23 07:52 PM
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
KRoyal Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
Originally Posted by Ol Thumper
I’m definitely not a vegetable guru and wouldn’t have had a clue if I didn’t witness the birds pecking at them so I’m not sure about the black hole.

We had a couple plastic owl decoys from a previous bird issue that failed miserably then but I put them on the top of t posts this time and it’s keeping the birds for now. I’m sure they’ll be back at them in a few days but for now it’s working.,

up I put up 2 scarecrows last year and it didn't seem to phase any critters.


[Linked Image]



Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8871133 06/20/23 08:04 PM
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 6,276
Ol Thumper Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 6,276
That’s the results we had with the owls last year but for the moment their working, I think a pellet gun might be the best option for a long term solution.

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8871151 06/20/23 08:30 PM
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 1,500
Derek Offline
Fert Squirter
Offline
Fert Squirter
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 1,500
Mockingbirds are the worst. As soon as you see your tomatoes start to turn red(blush) pick them and let them ripe inside. They also love little pequin peppers. I've had them pick a plant clean in just a couple days.

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8871161 06/20/23 08:43 PM
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 6,276
Ol Thumper Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 6,276
Those pesky Mockingbirds have been eating the wife’s Donkey Tails like skittles, their the only birds we have issues with.

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: KRoyal] #8871699 06/21/23 08:15 PM
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 8,537
B
bobcat1 Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
B
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 8,537
Originally Posted by KRoyal
Originally Posted by Sniper John
bird

Originally Posted by Ol Thumper
We had several like that and ours ended up being caused by Mockingbirds,


Thanks, makes sense, what about the black hole on the bottom? Same thing or something different?

Any pointers on getting the birds to leave them alone?

Dogs and cats


Bobby Barnett

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8871723 06/21/23 09:09 PM
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 21,413
Sniper John Online Happy
gumshoe
Online Happy
gumshoe
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 21,413
I used a bigger bird

[Linked Image]

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8871837 06/22/23 01:27 AM
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,873
H
Hunter-Steve Offline
Pro Tracker
Offline
Pro Tracker
H
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,873
I may need to get one of those. grin

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8871917 06/22/23 10:29 AM
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 7,688
GasGuzzler Offline
THF Trophy Hunter
Offline
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 7,688
We have mocking birds. They keep me up all night but don't bother my garden.


Pass the gravy.


Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Hunter-Steve] #8871964 06/22/23 01:17 PM
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
KRoyal Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
Originally Posted by Hunter-Steve
I may need to get one of those. grin

Same! Might have to cut me one out with a jigsaw when I get back from vacation.


[Linked Image]



Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8872277 06/23/23 02:45 AM
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 6,276
Ol Thumper Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 6,276
A few XL Jalapeños, they’ll be in the smoker tomorrow wrapped in meats by noon. [Linked Image]

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8874944 06/28/23 04:42 PM
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,126
W
Western Offline
THF Celebrity
Offline
THF Celebrity
W
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,126
I have had my first run in with the invasive Brown Marmorated stink bugs, just about wiped me out this year, most the vegetables, plums and peaches,

Been in contact with my county extension agent and they made the confirmation and are researching into it, The USDA made just has a few Texas counties confirmed including Dallas and Tarrant, now Wise,

They invade like grasshoppers in high numbers.


If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving is not for you..

"Don't trust everything you read on the Internet"- Abraham Lincoln

Dennis

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8874949 06/28/23 04:47 PM
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,126
W
Western Offline
THF Celebrity
Offline
THF Celebrity
W
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,126
This was in March day after first treatmentm there was probably over 1000 earlier that am when I hit them with soapy malathion
[Linked Image]


If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving is not for you..

"Don't trust everything you read on the Internet"- Abraham Lincoln

Dennis

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8874951 06/28/23 04:49 PM
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,126
W
Western Offline
THF Celebrity
Offline
THF Celebrity
W
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,126
This was a few put in alcohol so I could get photos to the Agent for confirmation, If you haven't had them (you'd know), you wont like it

[Linked Image]


If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving is not for you..

"Don't trust everything you read on the Internet"- Abraham Lincoln

Dennis

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Western] #8875204 06/29/23 12:53 AM
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 1,772
F
fredeboy Offline
Pro Tracker
Offline
Pro Tracker
F
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 1,772
Originally Posted by Western
This was a few put in alcohol so I could get photos to the Agent for confirmation, If you haven't had them (you'd know), you wont like it

[Linked Image]




What is plan going forward for control?

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8875354 06/29/23 12:58 PM
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,126
W
Western Offline
THF Celebrity
Offline
THF Celebrity
W
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 29,126
From what I've gathered so far, USDA, Rutgers U and U of Georgia are doing test with their natural predators, small wasp, to see what other native bugs could be impacted.
In the mean time, pretty much the same pesticides work on them as for the native stink bugs, I think the main thing with these is the numbers and plants they will attack, found them in my Okra and snap beans yesterday,

Since I have bees, I'm extra careful with pesticides, so I've been spraying them individually with dawn ultra and half oz permethrin in a zap spray bottle. When they where on my fruit tree early in the year, I used Malathion in a hoes end sprayer just at dark

If you're bored
https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol/brown-marmorated-stink-bug

https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/invertebrates/brown-marmorated-stink-bug

https://njaes.rutgers.edu/stink-bug/


If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving is not for you..

"Don't trust everything you read on the Internet"- Abraham Lincoln

Dennis

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8882628 07/14/23 11:24 PM
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,986
T
talkturkey Offline
Pro Tracker
Offline
Pro Tracker
T
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,986
The old people raised bed garden experiment has been a success! Freezer full of vacuum sealed corn on the cob, peppers, squash and melon; shelves full of canned green beans, pickles, relish, whole maters, mater juice, okra gumbo, mator preserves, and green mater salsa. Gonna add a little soil, add an irrigation system and get ready for fall planting! When do yall start your fall garden? (AND retirement is AWESOME!)

[Linked Image]

[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]


Last edited by talkturkey; 07/15/23 12:47 AM.
Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: talkturkey] #8882707 07/15/23 01:57 AM
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 1,500
Derek Offline
Fert Squirter
Offline
Fert Squirter
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 1,500
Originally Posted by talkturkey
The old people raised bed garden experiment has been a success! Freezer full of vacuum sealed corn on the cob, peppers, squash and melon; shelves full of canned green beans, pickles, relish, whole maters, mater juice, okra gumbo, mator preserves, and green mater salsa. Gonna add a little soil, add an irrigation system and get ready for fall planting! When do yall start your fall garden? (AND retirement is AWESOME!)

[Linked Image]

[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]



This is awesome! You're killing it TT. Great work good sir. Keep it up. up

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8883889 07/17/23 04:22 PM
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
KRoyal Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
Am I watering too much? Went out this morning and these are growing all over my garden.

[Linked Image]


[Linked Image]



Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8883941 07/17/23 05:25 PM
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 1,500
Derek Offline
Fert Squirter
Offline
Fert Squirter
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 1,500
Nothing to worry about. That's a good sign. Your soil is active and have organic matter breaking down which intern are supplying extra nutrients to your roots. Seeing shrooms is kinda the fungi version of seeing earthworms, it's good to see. Now just don't get all liquored up and lick them like Bullfrog wants to do.

Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Derek] #8883955 07/17/23 05:56 PM
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
KRoyal Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
Originally Posted by Derek
Nothing to worry about. That's a good sign. Your soil is active and have organic matter breaking down which intern are supplying extra nutrients to your roots. Seeing shrooms is kinda the fungi version of seeing earthworms, it's good to see. Now just don't get all liquored up and lick them like Bullfrog wants to do.

Good deal! Figured the growth was a good thing but have never seen them before like this. I'm talking my entire garden row after row has them clustered like this.

cheers Thanks Derek!


[Linked Image]



Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Derek] #8883959 07/17/23 05:58 PM
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
KRoyal Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Online Sleepy
Texoma Legend
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 26,793
Originally Posted by Derek
Originally Posted by talkturkey
The old people raised bed garden experiment has been a success! Freezer full of vacuum sealed corn on the cob, peppers, squash and melon; shelves full of canned green beans, pickles, relish, whole maters, mater juice, okra gumbo, mator preserves, and green mater salsa. Gonna add a little soil, add an irrigation system and get ready for fall planting! When do yall start your fall garden? (AND retirement is AWESOME!)

[Linked Image]

[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]



This is awesome! You're killing it TT. Great work good sir. Keep it up. up

Yea he is! I'm about to jump into canning. Mostly salsa, but will be canning other things as I grow them. I'm also interested in the Fall Garden info as well.


[Linked Image]



Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8887475 07/23/23 04:40 PM
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 21,393
B
Bullfrog Offline
THF Celebrity
Offline
THF Celebrity
B
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 21,393
So TexasLefty brought me some pequins that he picked in the wild down in Realitos. I got a few started and chose the best one, re-potted in a Texas Lowe’s bucket with 29 Shiner bottle caps(his birthday’s June 29) and I used a mix of what I call my “magic dirt” that I’ve been using since all this pepper stuff started and a small amount of Mykos at the roots to make sure those keep doing well. Here in a few weeks he’ll take delivery of a cool little plant and have all the peppers he can pick and eat soon enough, whenever Texas decides to abort “Hell” status heat levels
[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]


[Linked Image]
Re: THF Gardening Thread [Re: Payne] #8887476 07/23/23 04:41 PM
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 21,393
B
Bullfrog Offline
THF Celebrity
Offline
THF Celebrity
B
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 21,393
Little sucker’s already makin’ little flowers like crazy


[Linked Image]
Page 321 of 328 1 2 319 320 321 322 323 327 328
Previous Thread
Index
Next Thread

© 2004-2024 OUTDOOR SITES NETWORK all rights reserved USA and Worldwide
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.3