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[pennyJo1960]

Have to try the pepper thing here Pasha.
Would be great to have them regenerate.

 

[Pasha838]

Pasha,, I'm glad the falling tree did not do damage to your home, and other structures.

There are almost no such big trees here, only one birch, but it is surprisingly strong and does not break, and it is located far from my house. Once upon a time, a tall spruce forest grew on this plot, but we cut it all down and uprooted it, and the trees that are growing now are new, young, and not so huge. My mother wanted to plant pine trees, we planted about 20 or 30 of them, but they grow more in width than in height, with rare exceptions. I also once planted a larch sapling, because in the place where I once lived, larches grew and I liked them. There are several young oaks here that grew from acorns, young spruces that grew from seeds dropped by either squirrels or nuthatches (local birds the size of a sparrow, but very fond of spruce and pine cones), and I also have one blue spruce, the same species that grows in Moscow near the Kremlin on Red Square. Only it is not so big, I bought a seedling at the market.

The rest of the trees are generally short "non-forest" trees - apple trees, pear trees, cherries, etc. The apple tree that fell - it should have fallen a long time ago. Usually, the lifespan of such apple trees here is about 20 years, then they are cut down. We planted this particular one in 1998, that is, by the standards of this apple tree variety, it is already noticeably old. I don't know, I'll probably leave the surviving part for now, maybe I'll collect a few more apples from it. And the rest of the apple trees are much younger, well, they didn't break. One tree did break during a heavy rain, overloaded with apples, but I propped it up with thick oak forks, the break grew together and everything is fine.

The only damage that can be said is that a little further on the road huge fir trees fell, and they had to be sawed off so that it would be possible to drive on the road, and incidentally there was no Internet at all, although there was electricity. Apparently the fiber optic cable broke again. In villages, the Internet, frankly speaking, is often laid haphazardly - in cities it usually goes deep underground, in underground concrete passages, in which telephone wires once ran back in the days of the USSR. And in villages, these fiber optic cables are laid haphazardly. Sometimes it even happens that they just hang on trees or lie on the ground. They cannot shock a person or an animal with electricity, there is none there, so no one follows the standards for laying wires. A long time ago, the industry established the production of these wires, they are noticeably cheap, and they are laid wherever and however they can. Specifically, in our village, as many as five such providers appeared. The internet speed through these cables is good, you can watch movies, cartoons or play games online, but the cables themselves - they often break during every hurricane, freezing rain, heavy snowfall, etc. And then the internet does not work for three hours until the service arrives and connects the cable back or throws a new one.

 

[Pasha838]

Have to try the pepper thing here Pasha.
Would be great to have them regenerate.

Once upon a time I used to buy pepper seeds from specialty stores, but then I got tired of it and one year I just planted seeds taken from peppers bought either at the market or in the supermarket for food. Since I am not a farmer selling peppers, I do not necessarily need to use certified seeds. I don't even know the name of this variety, I only know that it is a regular sweet pepper and that when it ripens it is red.