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Here in NC the Dept. of Wildlife has declared the Eastern Diamondback Rattler to be on the endangered list and have asked people to report any sightings of them so they can track them down and move them. I did happen to spot one back in the fall of last year crossing a country road. I slowed...

Black rat snakes are beneficial to farmers and ranchers and should never be killed. When black snakes move into an area copperheads and other snakes move out. They do it two ways by going after the mice and other critters the venomous snakes live off of. And they will also kill and eat...

I have one on my property now in the very NW corner which is where the prevailing winds come from. The garden is in the SE corner and it's well over 100 yards away. Since I put it up a week ago I've noticed a marked decrease in JBs in the garden. They're still a few in the asparagus ferns but...

No, no... don't put out JB traps in your yard. Go buy six or eight of them and give one or two each to you neighbors and tell them you got them at a yard sale for like nothing. Offer to set them out for them making sure you put them as far away from your yard as you can. Just make sure the...

Gaz, How about keeping us up to date on the progress of your project. I know many of us on TEG would be very much interested in your results. We've been hearing about growing 'Red Neck' potatoes for years but I really don't remember seeing anyone post their results. I'd like to know if it...

That's just something I don't get. Why let a marvelous house like that waste away until it's ready to fall in? When I see this I wonder what happened to the people who own the house. Was it Granny's house and she passed away and didn't leave it to anyone or no one wanted it? What? It's such...

This is the best advice of all. I've tried growing cabbage for years and have had the same results of holy heads to show for all my work. Last fall I planted both Dutch and Chinese cabbage and made the first crop ever without it being eaten up by the bugs and worms. The great thing about fall...

Steve, I'll give it a try.

SoLucky, I didn't know you could do that. Pretty cool. Teresa has a sweet potato plant in the house she started during the winter. Maybe I'll take a cutting from it tomorrow and try just sticking it in the ground. I'd like to see that work.

I've got to get a couple of bags tomorrow so I'll check the label to see if it provides a protein percentage. But yes, last year they began to lose their feathers in the early spring but most put them back on during the winter time. Of course they were laying less during the winter so that...

I've already started giving them extra protein. I give them the leftover catfood, dogfood and any meat scraps (not chicken) we might have after a meal. I even snitch a scoop of Teresa's protein powder and mix it in with the leftovers, etc. and give it to them and they go hog wild over it. I...

I probably could have but according to something I read, probably in Dick Raymond's Joy of Gardening, they said to simply twist off the slips and plant them directly in the garden. I just figured to give them a little bit of something to hold on to would work and it looks like it did. Besides...

Anyone have a really good recipe for an insecticidal soap that really works? I've got these tiny little caterpillars about 1/2 inch long, pale yellow with black stripes and about 1/16 inch diameter. They're making a mess of the rutabaga leaves. I turned the leaves up and there'd be three or...

I think the key word was 'International'. I've tasted the real stuff and like you I don't think I'd try it again on a bet. But find a good, simple recipe online that does not use fish or fish parts and try making it for yourself. The way we made it it was like sauerkraut but with a kick from...

A week or so ago I reported that we'd found a crate of sweet potatoes we'd stored in the garage last fall so they'd keep through the winter. They did. We ate pretty much all we had in another crate we had in the pantry in the house but we'd forgotten about the ones out in the garage. When...

If you want to try something a little different then try making kimchi or Korean sauerkraut. We made a small batch of 24 half pint jars last year and it was 'da bomb'! I took in eight jars to my co-workers (also known as cubicle rats because they'll eat anything when you bring in free food)...

I've got the very same thing with my flock of 18 Black Sex Links. About twelve of them all look like the rear-end shots shown here. Two of them even have completely lost their tail feathers. Someone suggested they're pulling their own feathers out but I kind of doubt it. All seem healthy and...

Incidentally, awesome shots, especially the osprey. I used to have a houseboat down on Lake Marion in South Carolina and we had osprey down there. I once watched one hover about 20 feet above the water and then fold his wings and dove for a fish, going underwater to get it. Despite the fact...

We were almost as stunned as the geese were.

I included them because they made me think of starving little refugee children outside the gates of a palatial estate looking in and wanting what the Haves have... Does that make sense?