Posted on 10/19/2012 10:42:12 AM PDT by greeneyes
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No frost here yet...
A few nights ago it got down to 19F. Have had several inches of snow so far. Frost? I would have to dig under the snow to see if there is frost.
For dangerous game like that I would recommend at least a 30-06, but I would probably go to my dangerous game rifle, a CZ 550 American Magnum in 375 H&H!
My varmint gun is my 76 year year old Remington single shot using 22 short hollow points
You are welcome. Happy to post it. Problem is I am not techno savy, so I can’t do all that fancy stuff like JDAB. But I guess something is better than nothing? LOL
I had to give up on limes. They kept reverting to the wild.
Welcome to the garden thread. It was a tough year for many of our gardens. Too hot and lots of drought.
I don’t really know much about figs, and Red Devil is the only one I can remember that has figs.
Red, do you remember who else raises figs? Would you be willing to give some advice? Thanks.
Yeh. This was our 3rd harvest for the strawberries, so we ripped them out, and burned everything on top of the bed. We will probably plant some winter wheat after first frost.
Sprinkle a little clover in February. Turn it under at the end of March. Plant some Buckwheat in May. Followed by bush beans later in the summer to pick in the fall.
Alternative is to let the wheat mature, and harvest in June.
We have one of those round pyramid gardens set up as a replacedment bed. Filled it with topsoil and compost that we had hauled in earlier to amend some of our other plots.
Great photos TB. Thanks so much for sharing. I always feel guilty for being such a lazy gardener. Your pictures always give me energy and inspiration to get going.LOL.
Don’t feel bad about your garden as I am retired and all I do is play in the garden. We are getting up in the years and we let more and more slide. We decided to give up making compost on a large scale and gave our big shredder to a friend last week. I really like your cover crop rotation as I only do one annually.
Late blooming Delphiniums
Love your pictures TB.
I spot-checked the apricot seeds I put in the fridge back on August 1st. The seeds came from the fruit we picked from a “city tree” in the greenway along the river.
They’re starting to sprout; some have about 1/2” of root. I’ll need to pot them soon, then figure out where I’ll keep them until they can be planted next spring.
(Clean; dry a few days; soak overnight; put in damp potting soil & seal into a Ziplock; put in a veggie drawer of the fridge for 2-3 months.)
Apricots are supposed to be the least variable of major fruits to grow from seed. The tree they came from is about 20-25’ high, and is never pruned, sprayed or fertilized, so the fruit isn’t the best I’ve ever picked, but it is a lot better than the greenish golf balls that show up in our markets for $3/pound. They also made very good jam and syrup.
We’ve gotten some snow flurries, and rain showers this month...so far a total of 0.03” of moisture! Yep; three hundredths of an inch.
Nice one! Truly trophy quality! Mounting it, or going to use it for a rug?
It will be interesting to see how your Apricot sprout works out.
Always the pessimist, I have 21 of them. Pessimistically, I’ll end up having to dig 21 holes. ;-’)
I grow mine in a big container sitting on a dolly so that I can roll it in and out of the house. In the house in front of a patio door that faces south west.
I put it out in the spring and leave it till fall. Then bring it in and out as needed. I have picked 2 ripe lemons so far, and have about five left that are still kinda green.
The plant is only about 2 feet tall. I just put slow realease fertilizer on the soil and work it in. Every so often I water with some liquid fertilizer.
LOL. You sound kinda like me. I tell jokes like this, but lots of people fail to see the humor and just think I am complaining.
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