California - Northern

[Miss Molly]

Hey good morning everyone.
Please do me a favor and keep my family in your daily prayers. They are on the east coast braving the hurricane. I have family in New York City and Ohio.
My grandmother on my fathers side lives a tenement building in Harlem. They evacuated the buildings a few days ago but she stayed. My uncle's are there with her.
I just hope their electricity stays on.

Mike,
Praying for your family....

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Look at what I found under the hanging feeder today:



The very tiny egg in the center. I do have three Heritage RIRs that are in the 20 week range but they do not seem ready to lay eggs yet. I do have a bunch of Molting Hens so this could be an egg from starting a new laying cycle. I cant wait to see if it is all yolk or not.

Ron

nice !!!

 

[Miss Molly]

Boy I'm trying to get caught up on this thread, got behind a bit and wow lots of posts.

Molly- So,glad your daughter is OK.

BigDaddysMom- WHAT a cute face!!!! Such as sweet puppy.

Cali Chick- glad your broody took the chicks. Looks like you have a good momma hen there.

Debi- My mom didn't cook much...she had a few recipes but that's all. Might of been because all we had for most of my child hood years to cook with was a hot plate, microwave oven and crock pot. Microwave cupcakes anyone??? We didn't do a lot of baking LOL. But, I've been trying hard to learn how to bake breads and home cook everything. I used to can/dry fruit when our neighbor's had a fruit farm. They gave me all the fruit I could eat and then some. It has just been too expensive to buy fruit for canning so I haven't done it in years.

Happy Chooks- I can't wait to start canning again once my fruit trees start producing. I have nearly 40 trees (most in the ground,some potted and some ordered).

Trisha

Some of what I have...
8 Apples (planning on ordering scion wood to graft even more varieties on to the 8) Want a crab apple too.
5 peaches (+one more ordered)
3 nectarines
4 pluots
4 plums
1 persimmon
1 Asian pear (grafted with 4 varieties)
3 apricots (+2 more ordered)
1 cherryxplum hybrid (ordered)
1 cherry (+2 more ordered)
2 medlar trees (ordered)- makes wonderful preserves.
10+ black berry vines thorn-less
3 raspberry vines
2 grapes (plus 1 ordered)
5 pineapple guavas
3 pomegranates
12+ blueberry plants in pots (going to make a raised bed for them hopefully this year)
lemon, pink orange and mandarin (in pots...gets a bit cold here for them)
Plus some "exotic" berry bushes I ordered but can't remember their names of the top of my head LOL.

I have a lot of fruit trees also. We try to add a few more every year.. I didn't know about " thorn-less black berry's... Nice!

 

[Miss Molly]

Interesting Trisha - they are shaped like a blueberry.

Ron - we are too cold for citrus, so we planted some mandarin's and some orange's at the MIL's house in Newcastle.  Their area is prime mandarin area!  They are young trees though, so we haven't gotten much off of them yet.  As soon as I get a greenhouse, the first occupant of it is going to be a meyer lemon bush!  I'll have to wheel it out in the summer, but it will be worth it for the lemons.

I found a variety of avocado that is cold tolerant down to 20 degrees.  I'm so tempted to try it.

Yes, Mandarin's grow GREAT in Newcastle I have several... This year I added three more Meyers lemon trees and two avocado. I'll let you know how the avocado do..

 

[ronott1]

Quote:
Sure Jell has recipes and instructions that come along with their pectin boxes. You don't not always need pectin(

Right Happy Chooks) so you can also find instructions and videos online.

Black Berry is my favorite too. Ok so is Raspberry and Apricot. I usually make Jams. Raspberry is usually a semi Seedless. There are too many seeds in straight Raspberry jam for me.

Same as I told Amy, Just Do It! Especially if you have a lot of fruit trees.

Bye,

Ron

 

[Miss Molly]

Deb, Molly and any others that live around Auburn..............................


[COLOR=0000CD]Mary called me today and told me that Tractor Supply is now open![/COLOR]e [COLOR=0000CD] [/COLOR]


I'm going to go check it out tomorrow! (and it figures, I just bought feed today)

Awesome, I am off work Thursday .... I will have to check it out...

 

[Miss Molly]

The new owners are very lucky!

Ron

I agree really cute. They have sure grown fast..

 

[tls_ranch]

Quote: We don't have wild blackberrys here on our property because it's a bit too dry. I planted the "commercial" types that are thornless...no bleeding fingers They are still just small plants that I planted this spring, but I did get a few handfulls of blackberrys off of them. Huge, sweet and yummy. I've gone a bit overboard with fruiting plants, LOL.

Trisha

 

[debs_flock]

We are getting ready to do olives....Yummy!

I was going to attend the MFP class on olives at the UCCE office this year, but I got busy. My stepdaughter is an olive producer up near Chico. She gave me a 5 gallon bucket of olives last year. I was chicken to do them with lye and the UCCE article on disposing of home produced olives contaminated with botulism scared the cr*p out of me

. I do pressure canning though and I haven't killed us yet, LOL.

We don't have wild blackberrys here on our property because it's a bit too dry. I planted the "commercial" types that are thornless...no bleeding fingers They are still just small plants that I planted this spring, but I did get a few handfulls of blackberrys off of them. Huge, sweet and yummy. I've gone a bit overboard with fruiting plants, LOL.

Trisha

There's a bit patch of wild blackberries at the back of our property. Last year I picked, sorted and individually froze about ten gallons of them. This year I only made a few pies and cobblers, the rest went to the birds. I just didn't have time to mess with them. I still have so many left from the year before in the freezer!

I prep a lot of my fruit in the warm months, freeze it and actually make the jams, jellies, sauces and stuff in the cooler months.

Deb

 

[Papa Brooder]

Why is it that everytime I read this thread I get hungry?!?