Posted on 03/06/2015 12:47:33 PM PST by greeneyes
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LOL. I do some hand pollination of the lemon tree sometimes, when it blooms indoors.
“.. we didn’t contemplate pollination by hand”
Do you play Sinatra so the trees are in the mood. LOL! :)
Yes. Many, many homes here have had ice dam damage. We’ve also had an unusual number of fires and roofs that have collapsed, as well as people who have been hit and killed by snow plows. My husband and I can’t recall a worse winter, and that includes the blizzard of ‘78.
My husband and I were born and raised in Wadsworth. Where abouts are you, if you don’t mind my curiosity?
My leftover spuds from last summer have foot-long shoots on them. I’m going to resist the temptation because I know they’ll be freeze-killed if I set them out this early. I set them out mid-April last year and they got frozen pretty badly.
I’m in Northfield Center. Next to Sagamore Hills. I used to rent a 110 acre farm right on the edge of the Valley Park. The feds basically seized 100 of the acres, and I couldn’t hunt or cut wood for the 1836 Farmhouses wood burning furnace. So I moved into town. When I lived in the farmhouse, I used all period furniture that I picked. Now, in the ‘58 house, it’s all Mid-Century modern chrome and leather. I’m too old to be cutting the wood needed to keep the farmhouse warm, but I sure do miss it!
The ‘little ice age’ cometh...are there to be 25 or 30 more winters like this one on the way?
Wow, that stinks.
Water always wants to go somewhere. If it finds the smallest crack, it's going there. Another thing about water - a drop weighs nothing but a gallon weighs 8 pounds. You can't live more than 3 days without water before your body starts dying. You have to have it but it is a destructive force if left on its own.
Something else about water - in the Garden of Eden, there was no rain - the plants were nourished by a mist that came from the ground every morning to give them water.
Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Genesis 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
When Adam and Eve were put out of the garden, rain came down on the earth. They were told they had to toil the soil now in order to eat.
See, if Eve hadn't eaten that fruit, your gardens would be nourished by that mist out of the ground.
Just about to harvest another dill crop. The sun was a bit too hot when they bolted and set blossoms, so some of the umbrels weren't pollinated very well. Should get a couple thousand seeds for the next crop, though (always reduce my estimates by half...friendly tip!)
Finally have a decent sage plantlet, roots dry and growing. It's the windy season here, though, gusts of over 50mph some days, so I'm carefully keeping it on the porch.
Trimmed back the oregano. One of the plants was fully 12 feet high and getting spindly. Looks like the leaves on the remaining branches are coming in much thicker...but it's early days yet, so not counting any chickens. (Chickens?? I don't grow any dang chickens. The official count is ZERO!)
Going to buy a couple of mature thyme plants in our excellent outdoor mkt here. Every attempt to grow from seed starts off very well indeed, but, even though the seedlings are sheltered, the plants have never reached maturity/blossoming.
My classic (huge) mother rosemary plant had wet root problems last year, but WAS coming back. Then we had a dose of too hot/too windy and the leaves have started dropping again. Soooooo, I'm going to take as many cuttings as possible, then uproot the plant. Have 3 other cuttings doing very well from the mother plant, should wind up with 8 to 10. Note: if you use urea to thicken/strengthen the leaves, keep it away from the roots!
And that's all from herb heaven (tomatoes? what're those?)
Best to ya!
That must have been horrible! We may not be able to live without water, but it can be deadly, too.
“Wow, that stinks.”
Well,,, It stinks that the feds took the property by eminent domain, and didn’t pay what it was really worth. You cant see any of this property from the Valley Park. It would have been a great place for the owners to sell to builders. Would have been a wonderful place to have a house, and the owners would have received a far greater amount of money for it. And gas well guys were interested too, My friends and I took 16 deer one year, and didn’t even make a dent in the herd that lives in the protected Park. But most of the time that I spent “hunting” was just me relaxing in the peace of the big wood stand.
Plus, with no close neighbors, I could target shoot to my heart’s content, and get home from a gig at 3am, plug into an amp and wail away without disturbing a soul!
That is always a risk here in NYS for the apple and cherry crops.
There are LOTS of apple orchards across CNY, and once they bloom, if there’s a late frost, it can destroy their crop.
It did happen 2-3 years ago where they lost 80% of the apple crop, and is a threat pretty regularly.
What a shame.
Until I lived out in the country, I had no idea how dependent the farmers are on the weather for their livelihood.
A whole year’s worth of work or expected income can be down the drain due to a fluke in the weather, and not many of them have alternate means of obtaining an income.
LOL. Didn’t think of that.
I believe it was the winter of 1981 here. We got 21 inches of snow overnight, and even the banks had a snow day. That was followed by 8 inches a day or so later and so forth.
The schools here were closed for about 2 and half months straight, as snow storm after snow storm hit.
Really? I set mine out April 1, and covered them with about 6 inches of straw, and they did ok. Of course, my raised beds are close to the house, and so somewhat sheltered from the north east side.
Jeez, I hope not!
Thanks for all the info and tips. I’ll be checking the rosemary tomorrow. Ground is too sloppy today, and this is my computer day.
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