Posted on 03/18/2016 7:45:27 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch
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Now that sounds like a good idea.
I’d thought about nets last year but got sick halfway through the summer so never got around to it.
IME the soil under nursery cloth became compacted and low in organic matter, even when it wasn’t walked on at all.
No. Sadly, one of the eggs was broken and it had been abandoned. Likely, the cats. She had picked at the twine to make it so smart mama. We have store bought bird houses but they don’t like those.
Aw. How sad.
I do it every year. It works. :)
2 or 3 years ago I had some pepper plants in containers on my driveway. One sweet, one ghost pepper and one scorpion pepper. The sweet pepper was closest to the treeline and started losing peppers first. Just past it toward the house was the scorpion pepper. I walked down the driveway to check my mail and found a scorpion pepper, just one, lying in the driveway with a rodent sized bite out of it. *chuckle*. They left all the peppers alone after that.
I understand your desire for simplicity and keeping with a "top and bottom that match" .
However , if you wanted to graft fruit trees , or 'air layer' for more new fruit trees , the spring growth and fresh buds present the best seasonal opportunity .
“Prayers up for greeneyes!”
Bump
God bless here and her family.
The short answer is, “maybe”. Seems like it depends upon cultivar; some are self pollinating, and others aren’t: same with apples.
This may help:
http://www.amherstnurseries.com/FruitTreePollinatorsChart-id-51.html
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/pear-tree-need-separate-pollinator-43703.html
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/pear-trees-not-need-crosspollinators-52497.html
interesting, I’m glad the little guy survived the deer!
Chuckle..I bought some Applegate lunch meat the other day. It was pretty good. (Made in Canada) Sorry about your nightly hard frosts. We’ve been getting RAIN and more RAIN.
Hopefully greeneyes will be feeling better soon. Thank you for getting us together.
I did the same thing with corn seed. Put them in warm water for planting on 5 March. You guessed it..it rained.
After a few days, I noticed the seeds had a pointy end, so I put them in soil. They’re about 2” high, now I need to transplant them, but here at home and not in the community garden as planned. The same with some of my lettuces. Let them sit in water and they think it’s time to show themselves. I had to spread the seeds on news paper and used tweezers to plant them, also here at home. I had planned to do some planting in the community garden tomorrow, but... YEP it’s raining. My cukes are in pots, I’m going to do a cantaloupe in a pot and train it on a trellis. I’m late ordering a couple of seeds...don’t know how that happened.
Your biggest threat from tree rats is them digging in your pots, I put pine cones in the pots of my tropical plants and that eliminates that problem. If it gets real dry and they have no source for water they will steal a ripe tomato just for its water content, I then use a pellet rifle and 22 caliber rifle to fix that problem.
thank you!
Never heard of that Canadian lunch meat; I may have to look for it.
So far, not even the apricots or cherry had budded, so they may be okay. I don’t understand why they haven’t, after 3-4 weeks of record & near record warmth, unless day length is part of their dormancy breaking equation.
The two elderberries I planted last Spring are putting out new near-ground level sprouts, so I buried them fairly deeply in straw, as well as the ‘lost’ garlic that came back from last year.
Looks really nice, as usual. Mine always looks like a cross between Ruth Stout’s & Li’l Abner’s. LOL
Mrs. Bender did a goodly piece of work there; guess her new bionics are broken in now.
The shingles on the barn look extremely long, but that does make sense. Do you know if they’re redwood, cedar, or something else?
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