Your hens won’t touch snowdrops, crocuses, primroses, violas, buttercups, daffodils or tulips. Other flowers they shouldn’t be interested in include lavender, roses, asters, camellias, dahlias,… Read More »Can Chickens Eat Dahlia Flowers?
Chickens also love to peck at leaves and eat many types of vegetables (especially leafy greens). They are clumsy and careless about where they walk… Read More »Do Chickens Eat Vegetable Plants?
An overripe healthy tomato may produce dark seeds most of the time. The dark color of the seeds indicates that they are ready for germination.… Read More »Why Are My Cherry Tomatoes Black Inside?
Blue tomatoes, sometimes referred to as purple tomato, are tomatoes that have been bred to produce high levels of anthocyanins, a class of pigments responsible… Read More »Are Purple Tomatoes Natural?
Some are pink when fully ripe, while others are yellow, burgundy-black, striped, and even still green when ripe. You can’t judge strictly based on time,… Read More »What Color Is A Ripe Tomato?
Unfortunately the chickens will be effected by Repels All. You may want to consider using a rodenticide in tamper resistant bait stations around the exterior… Read More »Does Repel All Work On Chickens?
Tomatoes ripen most quickly when the temperatures are between 68 and 77 degrees. High temperatures also cause fruit with yellow shoulders and white cores. Excessive… Read More »Why Are My Tomatoes Yellow Inside?
A: This can be caused by stressful weather and aggravated by excessive fertilizer. The cavity walls in many older varieties join to create a core… Read More »What Causes Large Cores In Tomatoes?
Tomatoes and bell peppers have been the source of recent outbreaks of foodborne illnesses due to contamination by human pathogens such as E. coli O157:H7… Read More »Can You Get E Coli From Tomatoes?
Tomatoes get too much fertilizer. Excessive fertilizer (especially accompanied by stressful weather) contributes to a tomato’s tough center core. What causes hard cores in tomatoes?… Read More »Why Do My Tomatoes Have A Hard Yellow Core?