Posted on 08/30/2013 1:16:25 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Nope. I have no idea or guesses either.LOL
An Almond has a outer husk that pops open later in the season and a inner shell that you have to crack. How big are the peach/almond thingies?
LIKE...
Fruit is a little smaller than a regular peach and kinda squatty. Like you took a peach and cut off the upper and lower part, so it’s no longer round. Kinda like those cinderella coach type pumpkins.
The pit looks like a peach pit. The nut inside the pit looks just like an almond.
Your crop looks wonderful. Unfortunately my tomato plants looked awful until now!. Somehow they came back to life and delivering beautifully.
Everyone please advise me on what to do with a vole. I put some coneflowers in the perennial garden a few weeks ago and they were gone in two days. I fear for the rest of the garden.
What to do about a vole?
Do it fast-I have heard that one pregnant female can have 100 over a years timee. Gestation only takes 3 weeks, and they are able to have others in a month.
I don’t know much about them we don’t have any. Here’s a link for starters:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2262285_rid-moles-voles-yard.html
It's okay to shoot a gun in my town as long as the bullet doesn't cross a propeety line..but you can't hunt in town unless you have ten acres or more.
If we'd get some rain, some of them would head back out to the hills, but deer are a prolem in town here.
I still have axis from last hunting season. I should eat some smoke rings or make some chicken fried venison with the cutlets.
MMM. Wonder how to live trap a deer? Then what? Haul it off during deer season to a place you can shoot it, then haul it back to town for processing?LOL
I am way to whacked to even think of anything but crazy stuff.LOL
I gotta get to bed. My eyelids are breaking the toothpicks propping them up. Talk to you tomorrow.
September7th-10th are supposed to be good for "above ground crops". Marcella, it might be fun for you to experiment if your carrots sprout faster when planted by the moon's phases, than just anytime..
Hope Mr. Stevia is recovering..he wasn't in full sun here, just about 4-5 hrs a day.
Open your garage door, put flowerpots of showy, beautiful impatiens leading into the garage?
Thank you, I went to your link right a way. Castor Oil.
I first noticed the little black guy 3 weeks ago and put cayenne pepper down everywhere, to no effect.
I heard chewing gum which I don’t have and peeing on the area which is not going to happen;)
Will try some of the advise on your links.
We are just a mile out side of town and close enough that we just don’t have problems with deer.
My granddaughter and family live well within the city of Helena Montana- and the first home they lived in had a 6 foot fence, but they always had deer in their yard. A favorite snoozing place during the day was the lawn under a huge cedar tree in the side yard. The front yard would have fresh droppings when we left in the mornings. One day a big deal for my grandson was watching two young bucks sparring, practicing for later months to come during rut season. Gardens were a real problem there. They had a neighbor across the alley who did have a garden. I really considered going over to ask him how he managed that.
PEACH PIT JELLY recipes & discussion
I made it all the time when we lived in southern Idaho and had access to plenty of reasonably priced peaches. Plus what we grew in our back yard. I also made beet jelly after cooking beets- - beautiful color, flavored with whatever kool aid flavor we wanted.
Could it be a Donut Peach that have become popular. Sometimes they taste great and some times they are flat and most of them are white fleshed?
Sounds like a Halls Hardy Almond, that some are saying is a cross between an almond and a peach, with peach-like fruits.
Also many claim that the almonds are good, if a bit small and nearly impossible to crack without destroying the kernel in the process.
It apparently was developed in Russia, and I would guess that it is descended (by this almond’s description) from the Russian Almond, Prunus tenella, sold as a “conservation tree” by the Farm Service Agency.
Clicked & enlarged; that IS a lot of bees. Sedum is really fairly simple to grow, IIRC.We had it in Oregon, but I haven’t seen it here.
I'm guessing that, if they want mature almonds, then the "peach" is way too far gone.
A normal almond stays on the tree until a leathery hull begins to split open, then it's harvested.
Back in the 50's, an older brother (16 or 17 at the time) tried to make some "fast money" by taking a trip from the Ba(tt)y Area to Lodi to 'knock almonds'. Tarps, long poles, and then stoop(id) labor to sack them up; now, a mechanical 'shaker' grabs the trunk, and violently vibrates the tree.
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