robl I have never heard of he purple Cherokee ones, please me know how they taste. I'm assuming they are the full size ones?
As for what to do with them a friend grew tomatoes on a large scale, over a hundred plants, and took them to the local store and sold them to the store and then they sold them at a profit. Some days he would take 2 flats of tomatoes, some days he would take only 1 flat, but the local store bought them all at something like 50 cents apiece. Not much but he enjoyed growing them, he also grew other stuff and sold it too.
robl I have never heard of he purple Cherokee ones, please me know how they taste. I'm assuming they are the full size ones?
Here is a link to a Cherokee purple page that is a short informative read with some pics.
MAGIC,
The more I saw of you and your hummers the more I wanted to contribute so last night off I went to Lowes and bought a feeder. It came with a built in moat but by the time the "enemy" is crawling the castle walls its too late so I am buying another type of ant moat today that attaches to the hanger and is filled with water. Just finished a 4 to 1 mix of water and sugar, brought it to a boil, and now its cooling. Should be ready "to bottle" when I return from Church. The yard is loaded with grackles, jays, and an occasional cardinal, and doves. The first two are eying the Lychee trees which are hanging heavy and should be ready in 2 weeks.
The more I saw of you and your hummers the more I wanted to contribute so last night off I went to Lowes and bought a feeder. It came with a built in moat but by the time the "enemy" is crawling the castle walls its too late so I am buying another type of ant moat today that attaches to the hanger and is filled with water. Just finished a 4 to 1 mix of water and sugar, brought it to a boil, and now its cooling. Should be ready "to bottle" when I return from Church. The yard is loaded with grackles, jays, and an occasional cardinal, and doves. The first two are eying the Lychee trees which are hanging heavy and should be ready in 2 weeks.
Yeah they are fun when you can put the feeder close to the window you see the most.
That is why I have 5 feeders in the one window to the right of the tv that looks out toward the pond.
I have another feeder in the window behind me too.
All my feeders are within 3 inches from the windows.
I don't really have the ant problem since the only place I get them is on the ground straight under the feeders about 7ft away and I just let them meet my boots ......right now I have some honey bees being a pest and scaring the birds so once in a while I smack them away since I have plenty of flowers they can visit instead of feeders.
Now I have been doing this for decades so I found what always brings them back.
I take the usual 2 cup measuring cup and put 1 and 3/4 cup of sugar in it and then top it off with water as I stir it up and then 1 minute in the microwave and stir it again and pour that in the feeder bottle and just top it off with water out of the faucet and back outside and they land on it before I can hang it back up.
I have heard many "experts" say 4 to one but mine as you can see is more sugar and that is what they like and I have them all year bring the babies when they are old enough to fly around.
Of course as I mentioned if you do this long enough you too will have 100 hummingbirds on a good year and have to buy 200lbs of sugar.
I look for the best price of course and end up getting the 25lb bags.
This morning the first thing I had to do was refill all 7 feeders.
And the best ones are the ones you can see in my pics since they hold the most sugar water.
In the winter I don't have to clean the feeders as much but when it gets warm out I just start by not hanging them in direct sun so those 5 are on the NE side and the other on the west and the one behind me is the only one I just hang up under the eve close enough that the sun never hits it even being on the south side.
The good thing about the amount of sugar I use is in the winter it REALLY has to get cold to freeze the feeders but when it gets in the 20's I have these knitted covers the wife made that fits over the glass bottle (red) and a couple times if it gets low 20's or colder I just bring em in at night and make sure they are back out just before it starts getting light outside.
But in summer the one thing I do is clean the plastic bases with hot water for a minute since that will kill any germs......bottles of course are easier to see if they need cleaning.
I live in the NE corner of the Olympic Peninsula so you can tell they like coming this far north every year and the Anna type stay here all winter (not sure how those lil critters can handle the cold but they do)
The only birds I have that try sneaking into the sugar feeders are the male Grosbeaks I have ( I have hundreds of different birds that get sunflower seeds all year too along with the spoiled wild mallards that get cracked corn)
*Steller’s Jays* and *Pigeons* are the only ones on my banned list here since they break feeders and eat all the food.
Getting ready for bed... It's now well past midnight. I will be sleeping in tomorrow/this morning...
We have a family of California quail here. Two of them just hatched a bunch of little ones. They are following their parents everywhere. :-) I hope they all survive... We have cats that roam our front and back yards; so... :-O
Getting ready for bed... It's now well past midnight. I will be sleeping in tomorrow/this morning...
We have a family of California quail here. Two of them just hatched a bunch of little ones. They are following their parents everywhere. :-) I hope they all survive... We have cats that roam our front and back yards; so... :-O
I am still shooting the squirrels in my own back yard with my plastic pellets and electric airsoft pistol. The speed of the pellet is so slow that it can't penetrate their skin, but they don't like it when it hits them or even near them. Near them is a good thing as the plastic pistol is FAR from accurate, in fact the tree 30 feet off my deck often gets missed due to the pellet going this way or that instead of straight. No rifling and sloppy quality control making the pellets makes for highly inaccurate shooting, but it's still fun watching the squirrels run!
Getting ready for bed... It's now well past midnight. I will be sleeping in tomorrow/this morning...
We have a family of California quail here. Two of them just hatched a bunch of little ones. They are following their parents everywhere. :-) I hope they all survive... We have cats that roam our front and back yards; so... :-O
I am still shooting the squirrels in my own back yard with my plastic pellets and electric airsoft pistol. The speed of the pellet is so slow that it can't penetrate their skin, but they don't like it when it hits them or even near them. Near them is a good thing as the plastic pistol is FAR from accurate, in fact the tree 30 feet off my deck often gets missed due to the pellet going this way or that instead of straight. No rifling and sloppy quality control making the pellets makes for highly inaccurate shooting, but it's still fun watching the squirrels run!
Pretty much the only critters that meet my Betsy the 12 gauge are the moles that think it is ok to make hills in my lawn or otters that think my trout are for them to steal.......I let the chips and squirrels hang out with the birds as long as they behave and they always do.
As far as pigeons and those Steller’s Jays aka *camp robbers* they get the sting from my bb gun so they let the finches and chickadees and other smaller birds eat the sunflower seeds.
My first instinct is to dump out the leftover dry cat food in the back yard for whatever critters come along, but there's a good chance some of those critters will be skunks, so I don't think I will.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
My first instinct is to dump out the leftover dry cat food in the back yard for whatever critters come along, but there's a good chance some of those critters will be skunks, so I don't think I will.
I might jinx myself but in my 40+ years here I have never seen a skunk on the property........even been years since I have seen a dead skunk in the middle of the road
My first instinct is to dump out the leftover dry cat food in the back yard for whatever critters come along, but there's a good chance some of those critters will be skunks, so I don't think I will.
I might jinx myself but in my 40+ years here I have never seen a skunk on the property........even been years since I have seen a dead skunk in the middle of the road
Do skunks swim ie. across oceans to another hemisphere ?
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Goodnight everyone. :-)
Goodnight everyone. :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
Good morning!! robl I have
Good morning!!
robl I have never heard of he purple Cherokee ones, please me know how they taste. I'm assuming they are the full size ones?
As for what to do with them a friend grew tomatoes on a large scale, over a hundred plants, and took them to the local store and sold them to the store and then they sold them at a profit. Some days he would take 2 flats of tomatoes, some days he would take only 1 flat, but the local store bought them all at something like 50 cents apiece. Not much but he enjoyed growing them, he also grew other stuff and sold it too.
RE: Good morning!! robl I
Here is a link to a Cherokee purple page that is a short informative read with some pics.
MAGIC,
The more I saw of you and your hummers the more I wanted to contribute so last night off I went to Lowes and bought a feeder. It came with a built in moat but by the time the "enemy" is crawling the castle walls its too late so I am buying another type of ant moat today that attaches to the hanger and is filled with water. Just finished a 4 to 1 mix of water and sugar, brought it to a boil, and now its cooling. Should be ready "to bottle" when I return from Church. The yard is loaded with grackles, jays, and an occasional cardinal, and doves. The first two are eying the Lychee trees which are hanging heavy and should be ready in 2 weeks.
RE: Good morning!!
Yeah they are fun when you can put the feeder close to the window you see the most.
That is why I have 5 feeders in the one window to the right of the tv that looks out toward the pond.
I have another feeder in the window behind me too.
All my feeders are within 3 inches from the windows.
I don't really have the ant problem since the only place I get them is on the ground straight under the feeders about 7ft away and I just let them meet my boots ......right now I have some honey bees being a pest and scaring the birds so once in a while I smack them away since I have plenty of flowers they can visit instead of feeders.
Now I have been doing this for decades so I found what always brings them back.
I take the usual 2 cup measuring cup and put 1 and 3/4 cup of sugar in it and then top it off with water as I stir it up and then 1 minute in the microwave and stir it again and pour that in the feeder bottle and just top it off with water out of the faucet and back outside and they land on it before I can hang it back up.
I have heard many "experts" say 4 to one but mine as you can see is more sugar and that is what they like and I have them all year bring the babies when they are old enough to fly around.
Of course as I mentioned if you do this long enough you too will have 100 hummingbirds on a good year and have to buy 200lbs of sugar.
I look for the best price of course and end up getting the 25lb bags.
This morning the first thing I had to do was refill all 7 feeders.
And the best ones are the ones you can see in my pics since they hold the most sugar water.
In the winter I don't have to clean the feeders as much but when it gets warm out I just start by not hanging them in direct sun so those 5 are on the NE side and the other on the west and the one behind me is the only one I just hang up under the eve close enough that the sun never hits it even being on the south side.
The good thing about the amount of sugar I use is in the winter it REALLY has to get cold to freeze the feeders but when it gets in the 20's I have these knitted covers the wife made that fits over the glass bottle (red) and a couple times if it gets low 20's or colder I just bring em in at night and make sure they are back out just before it starts getting light outside.
But in summer the one thing I do is clean the plastic bases with hot water for a minute since that will kill any germs......bottles of course are easier to see if they need cleaning.
I live in the NE corner of the Olympic Peninsula so you can tell they like coming this far north every year and the Anna type stay here all winter (not sure how those lil critters can handle the cold but they do)
The only birds I have that try sneaking into the sugar feeders are the male Grosbeaks I have ( I have hundreds of different birds that get sunflower seeds all year too along with the spoiled wild mallards that get cracked corn)
*Steller’s Jays* and *Pigeons* are the only ones on my banned list here since they break feeders and eat all the food.
Getting ready for bed...
Getting ready for bed... It's now well past midnight. I will be sleeping in tomorrow/this morning...
We have a family of California quail here. Two of them just hatched a bunch of little ones. They are following their parents everywhere. :-) I hope they all survive... We have cats that roam our front and back yards; so... :-O
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: Getting ready for
I am still shooting the squirrels in my own back yard with my plastic pellets and electric airsoft pistol. The speed of the pellet is so slow that it can't penetrate their skin, but they don't like it when it hits them or even near them. Near them is a good thing as the plastic pistol is FAR from accurate, in fact the tree 30 feet off my deck often gets missed due to the pellet going this way or that instead of straight. No rifling and sloppy quality control making the pellets makes for highly inaccurate shooting, but it's still fun watching the squirrels run!
RE: RE: Getting ready for
Pretty much the only critters that meet my Betsy the 12 gauge are the moles that think it is ok to make hills in my lawn or otters that think my trout are for them to steal.......I let the chips and squirrels hang out with the birds as long as they behave and they always do.
As far as pigeons and those Steller’s Jays aka *camp robbers* they get the sting from my bb gun so they let the finches and chickadees and other smaller birds eat the sunflower seeds.
Back porch watch dog.........aka Fir Squirrel
My first instinct is to dump
My first instinct is to dump out the leftover dry cat food in the back yard for whatever critters come along, but there's a good chance some of those critters will be skunks, so I don't think I will.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: My first instinct is to
I might jinx myself but in my 40+ years here I have never seen a skunk on the property........even been years since I have seen a dead skunk in the middle of the road
RE: RE: My first instinct
Do skunks swim ie. across oceans to another hemisphere ?
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal