Odd plant find this afternoon. Wood Chuck maybe

old · Sep 3, 2012

Had a friend stop in and while talking to him I looked over and saw a Tomato plant growing at least 500 feet from the garden. Guess the wood chuck has gone into planting his own tomato plants or something like that.
By the way every body who has eaten the wood chuck I barbequed say it is very good

larry@stinescorners · Sep 3, 2012

did it taste like chicken? lol

old · Sep 3, 2012

Would you believe I do not know??? Yep I have not eaten any of it. I skinned it I did all the work to marinade it I made the barbeque sauce and I baked it but my stomach has been acting up on me for a while so I have not eaten any of it. My wife, son and the friend who stopped in today have but I have not

Greg1959 · Sep 3, 2012

We have eaten the bobcat, coyote and beaver that we trap. They all taste good if you know how to skin and clean them!

larry@stinescorners · Sep 3, 2012

I have eaten ground hog,and raccon,they were both tasty,this winter a neighbor gave me some bear meat,that was good too,I dont know if I would want to eat a possum

Greg1959 · Sep 3, 2012

Skinned many a 'possum and they seem too greasy and have a lot of gristle for me to even consider trying to eat!

Anonymous-0 · Sep 3, 2012

Sure you wern't just testing it out on other people fore you tried it? lol.

Chas.Ont. · Sep 3, 2012

Two years ago I spread manure on a hay field. Someone threw our cull tomatoes on the maunure pile.
Last year after the first growth of hay was cut off the tomato showed up. Because most of the originals were hybrids, the fruit we picked from the plants that run the lenghth of a ten acre field, were of many shapes, but we harvested ten bushels.
Chas.

PJH · Sep 3, 2012

When I was a kid in the first grade, our neighbor had a mean horse. I'd short cut across his pasture walking to and from school, and that darn thing would come running with it's teeth all bared and I'd barely make it under the fence every time. Last day of school I was sneaking thru the pasture and spied that old horse laying out in the sun - dead as a doorknob, with it's legs sticking up in the air. I was still scared of it, but I found a piece of a dead tree limb, 'bout the size of a ball bat, and I slipped up and whopped that old horse in the ribs, just for old times sake. Three possums ran outa his butt. I guess they'd ate their way up in there and were having a good old feast.

Anyhow - to sum it up - I ain't ever eating any possum.

Paul

Greg1959 · Sep 3, 2012

(quoted from post at 02:31:14 09/04/12) When I was a kid in the first grade, our neighbor had a mean horse. I'd short cut across his pasture walking to and from school, and that darn thing would come running with it's teeth all bared and I'd barely make it under the fence every time. Last day of school I was sneaking thru the pasture and spied that old horse laying out in the sun - dead as a doorknob, with it's legs sticking up in the air. I was still scared of it, but I found a piece of a dead tree limb, 'bout the size of a ball bat, and I slipped up and whopped that old horse in the ribs, just for old times sake. Three possums ran outa his butt. I guess they'd ate their way up in there and were having a good old feast.

Anyhow - to sum it up - I ain't ever eating any possum.

Paul

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toadady · Sep 3, 2012

feller i got this place from was a "horse man", and i've had volenteere corn, and wheet growning all through out this place for three years now., it gets about 4 feet tall then just dies off, never makes any corn,( i know not the eating kind )

Anonymous-0 · Sep 3, 2012

Ya I would stick with that story too, Old!

37chief · Sep 3, 2012

I have tomato plants growing up like weeds around my place. There are the small ones, some call them cherry tomatos. Stan

JMOR · Sep 3, 2012

(quoted from post at 22:58:14 09/03/12) I have tomato plants growing up like weeds around my place. There are the small ones, some call them cherry tomatos. Stan

nyone know what a short small plant that has leaves a bit like tomato leaves, rose bush like thorns but smaller, and has round 1/2 inch yellow fruit on it? Taking over parts of my hay field this year. Texas..NE.

JerryS · Sep 3, 2012

Amen, brother.

bradley martin · Sep 4, 2012

Sounds like "horse nettle". You will find it very difficult to eradicate.

dcarp · Sep 4, 2012

Stuff is called Soda Apple. Spreads really fast with the little "apple" full of seeds for next years crop. You can use Grazonnext or Milestone on it.

Nancy Howell · Sep 4, 2012

Sounds like Carolina Horsenettle. It has a pale purple flower and puts on marble sized yellow "fruit". Its a member of the nightshade family and the fruit is toxic to people and animals.

Its a perennial and has a deep root. GrazonNext will kill it and not harm your hay grasses.

Nancy Howell · Sep 4, 2012

We have found GrazonNext to be very effective in killing it. If Grazon gets on it, its dead.

5 yrs ago our hayfield was full of it. I think we had about an 85% to 90% kill rate the first spraying. We spray every spring with GrazonNext. Its about 99% eradicated now. Just see one every now and then and they are ones that came up after we sprayed or were down in the coastal and the spray didn't reach them.

Any survivors generally get a spot spray.

36 Coupe · Sep 6, 2012

That sounds like a John Gould story.

Odd plant find this afternoon. Wood Chuck maybe

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