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To: Augie

“Peach and apple trees are loaded.”

Jealous! I had to leave my mature orchard behind when I sold my other farm. :( But it was a terrific selling point for the young couple that bought it. They are doing SUCH a lovely job of improving my old place. They’re doing all of the improvements I had in the chute before Beau swept me off my feet and further out into the Hinterlands, LOL!

That said, I’m three years in at the ‘new’ old farm (1900) and I’ve added apples, plums, cherries, peaches and pears out here, but we’re a few years off from harvest, though the cherry trees (Northstar) are loaded!

Now, to beat the birds to them, LOL!

I did have SEVEN lovely homegrown strawberries with my breakfast this morning...and I did NOT share. :)


74 posted on 06/10/2019 8:28:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; All

Great to see all the Monday morning garden updates!!! We woke up to another morning of rare noorthcoast Calif sunshine as usually it’s low clouds (fog) that burns off by 11 am and rolls back in around 4 pm. (That’s what makes the Redwoods grow here.) Our average summer temps are 54 lows and 62 highs. The Pacific Ocean is about 2 miles west of us. Just 15 miles east of us the day time temps will be 90 to 100...


75 posted on 06/10/2019 9:13:46 AM PDT by tubebender
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Just a few pics. Last evening I picked the first of the green onions and radishes. Radishes could have gone another day or 2 but I can't wait. Red ones are early scarlet globe and the yellow is the ukranian radish I have grown for years now, my absolute favorite. Don't have a name handy, got the seeds on ebay from the same seller. And m comfrey patch. I don't really use it anymore. Dried is good as a tea for indigestion which I never get. The pasture fence connected to the barn at one time and we planted the comfrey for the goats to eat through the fence. Still getting a few asparagus daily.

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76 posted on 06/10/2019 9:16:38 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I can’t get a cherry tree to grow here. I’ve set out half a dozen over the past 11 years and they have all croaked.


77 posted on 06/10/2019 9:47:26 AM PDT by Augie
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