Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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June 11, 2011 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Sharon, MA Zone 6
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Wild Turkey in the Tomato Bed
Parked between the chives and my Bycze Jaja is evidently the perfect spot for this wild turkey to take a dust bath. Thank goodness for Google which assured me that this turkey was just taking a bath and not, as I originally thought, trying to make a nest!
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June 11, 2011 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Alaska Zone 3/4
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Great picture. At least it looks like he/she didn't do any damage. Interesting to see the various critters we all get in our gardens (moose and squirrels for me ... plus the neighbor's dog and occasionally my own).
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June 11, 2011 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: 6a - NE Tennessee
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The "Wild Turkey" in MY garden is generally sipped slowly at the end of a hard workday.
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June 11, 2011 | #4 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: zone 5b northwest connecticut
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nesting would occur in late march early april for our area. i never have had turkeys do any damage and they eat lots of insects, hopefully the ticks they no doubts spread i know guinea hens really clean up ticks, so i'm ok with them.
tom
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June 11, 2011 | #5 |
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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I'd love to find "Wild Turkey" in my gardens. Or even Jim Bean. I'd probably spend more time out there then.
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June 11, 2011 | #6 |
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: New York State
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Turkey and Tomatoes?
Cream of tomato soup is a good appetizer just before the turkey on Thanksgiving!! LOL ~Diggin'! |
June 11, 2011 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cincinnati
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That is a nice looking bird. I agree with the above post. I would think the turkey would eat insects out of your garden. I do wonder if it will peck at the tomatoes as they begin to ripen. I'm fairly certain a chicken would.
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June 11, 2011 | #8 |
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
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That's a great picture! I've seen everything from pidgeons to ducks, hawks and even a neighbor's escaped chicken in my back yard, but never a wild turkey.
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June 11, 2011 | #9 |
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tucson, Arizona (catalina)
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Wonderful picture! At least its a good critter....They love squash bugs and tomato worms.... LOL.
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June 12, 2011 | #10 |
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Turkeys will eat ripe tomatoes. Though yea they will also eat lots of bugs
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June 15, 2011 | #11 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Dacula,GA
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I was expecting to see a drunk guy on wild turkey running around his tomatoes. Oh well. A real turkey will do. Hope he de-bugs your garden!
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June 15, 2011 | #12 |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Houston, TX
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Any game animal in season that finds itself in one of my beds is in mortal danger of returning all that purloined food energy involuntarily.
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June 16, 2011 | #13 |
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The natural sounds around my house just as the sun is going down includes coyotes howling and Turkeys gobbling at each other from tree to tree. When you have a lot of them around, they can make a lot of noise, but I love it. Never had either in my garden. Wish the turkeys would visit my garden and eat a few grasshoppers.
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