Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

Had some damping off this year - first time ever for me. It turns out that it's probably because a mouse got into my bag of potting mix, as evidenced by a pink fiberglass nest!!!! (Thankfully empty). Silly me thought that any mouse poop/pee in the mix would be beneficial to my seedlings. Apparently,...

Those puny cages (sold for tomatoes) are great for pepper support. Something I learned recently is to plant two peppers close together as they apparently like company, then leave the usual spacing and plant two more together, and so on down the row. My peppers had a very concentrated taste last year...

Would LOVE to see a picture!

Ideally, we need to start peppers before tomatoes. This has taken a few years to dawn on me when I go to plant out my big tomato plants and puny pepper seedlings. This year, I started bell peppers (and eggplants) a couple of weeks before the tomatoes and now they have their cotyledons and are shiver...

I too have started my tomatoes, peppers and eggplants already, and they are under grow lights in the basement, but I fear that it's a bit chilly down there for them. I wait until much later to plant melons, cukes and zukes since they grow so fast and don't appreciate being transplanted.

Please send the not-a-bobcat out this way. The chippies are driving us NUTS!!!!!!

We had one around here a few years ago. It was spotted on a neighbour's deck so they got a good look at it. They live down the road, close to the water. They thought it was a Cougar. Of course MNR denied that it could have been one. Another neighbor heard a cat-like growl one morning, and my lab bec...

If you have a dog, you could save the y eggs for doggie meals :)

Thanks Killerbunny. My Red Sex Links are coming from Freys - phew! Will check out the link that you shared :)

Too funny about the Mini-Great-Danes Ontario Chick! I hadn't heard of them before.

I know more about dogs than I do about chickens and am mortified about the stoopid Doodles (and the wild prices that some of these "breeders" charge for them). Why take two excellent breeds and muck them up? Is it the same with chickens? I've just ordered some Sex Link chickens and now I have learne...