I wonder if a creeping ice age is more dangerous than a heat wave since more heat is reflected back into space from all the white sticking around and could build on itself rather quickly.
I have to replace two almond trees- they're over 20 years and hardly producing any almonds. I'll look for something in bare-root and start again. I'd love to grow pecans as that is my favorite pie. I hear they grow like weeds in Texas.
Yep, lots of pecans here. Don’t get bumper crops every year, but more than I ever need. Have 3 huge trees in my yards and several more at the farm.
The almond trees, funny you should mention them. I just ordered 28 new trees for our orchard. (bare root) 2 were Texas Mission almonds. Almonds do not make that consistently in Texas, but that variety is the best for this state.
We had a great persimmon crop again this year. We have a 50 year old Hayachi Persimmon tree that delivers almost every year. I ate my fill, froze quite a bit of ripe pulp and dried them for the 1st time this year. Made a great Korean spice tea from some this week. (dried persimmon, fresh ginger, cinnamon sticks, sugar)
The plum crop was the best we ever had this year. But it was a very wet cold year until the early fall. It has turned dry now.