WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD FEBRUARY 24, 2017

freerepublic | 2/24/2017 | greeenyes

[pigsmith]

Mind me asking what did you use the horehound for? More importantly, how did you contain it?

[tubebender]

All my local family are on high ground. I have a couple of friends who have to drive a quarter of a mile in axle deep water which is find if they take it slow and not drown out the engine.It rained some more today

[greeneyes]

Sorry to hear that.

[greeneyes]

Keeping fingers crossed for you tree to do well.

[Redleg Duke]

This auto correct is a real pain. We have a Rouen, not a Roman duck.

[Augie]

The unusually warm weather we've had all through February has set my poor fruit trees up for major damage this spring. The plum trees are all starting to leaf out already. It got down to 26° last night, and that certainly won't be the last cold night we experience.

Nephew helped me with poo over the weekend. I brought three trailer loads home from the neighbor lady's horse stable. One load is ~12cu/yd, and it took a full load and part of the 2nd to mulch the 25 orchard trees.

Pops sold his big loader tractor in January, and bought a little Massey-Ferguson. This thing is super handy for tight-quarters work, and is small enough to fit on the trailer for unloading poo. What used to take an hour of hard work now takes 15 minutes of shovel-leaning while Nephew does the hard part.

The last load I brought home was hot, hot, hot!

[tubebender]

pfffttt... I'll see your Massy-Ferguson and raise you one Sweet Mama...

[Augie]

The Massey only has to be fed when it’s working, and it never talks back. LOL

[tubebender]

But Mama has become more valuable as she ages while junk yards are full of worn out Masseys...