Posted on 11/03/2018 1:04:19 AM PDT by greeneyes
Cool and damp for the past week here in Central Missouri.
Mrs. Augie’s annual Halloween party was on Saturday, which kept me busy helping with preparations rather than doing something useful and productive outdoors.
Still need to plant garlic. I’ve also got a couple young trees that need to be transplanted. One is a walnut that came volunteer in my compost heap. The other is a burr oak that I started from an acorn picked up in the parking lot here at the salt mine. I’d been trying for years to get one started and finally did it. I won’t be alive to see it to maturity, but it will make a beautiful feature tree in our front yard.
We have mostly oak trees here. Walnut, butternut, and shag bark hickory nuts-hard to crack and tiny but taste good, a couple of maple trees, dogwood, and persimmon. All were here on the lots when we purchased them 40 years ago.
Worried about the butternut - it dropped all it’s leaves early this year, and had not one single nut. Not normal. It has cycles of huge harvest and then rests a year or two-but has always had a crop until this year.
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