Hudson Valley NY *chat thread*

[rbaker0345]

Hey Sallysec, hope you don't think I'm stalking you. I saw NY in your profile and I had to see where you were from. I moved to NC from Woodstock (actually West Shokan, but I spent most of my free time on the green and I used to work in Stoned Peaces). I have been perusing this thread and it makes me so homesick to see the pictures. I forgot how green everything is in the mountains. Its green all the time here, but its kind of a washed-out green without the darker green of the mountains behind it. Lets face it, I live in a swamp.

I have to say though, I do not miss those winters- feeding and watering horses and chickens in -10, it seems like craziness now. I can't imagine losing my tan, even if it is just a farmers tan from teaching lessons. I wish I had a summer house in Saugerties and a job that let me have a summer house and unlimited funds to enjoy that summer house....

Anyway Sally, I used to be a landscaper in NY too and if you ever need any advice I can help you. Its not enough for me to have my own garden and a gardening business, I need to garden vicariously through others as well.

 

[Sallysec]

LOL rbaker, that is so funny, I feel like everyone in NC is from the tri-state area. My sister lives down in Apex. Actually she is coming for a visit up here later in the week. My aunt is in Boone and has a place in Laurel Springs or Maggie Valley...cant remember anything anymore. My father just was looking down there to but ended up in VA. I am at the beginning stages of a remodel and I could totally use any and all advise. I am taking what we currently own and basically moving it all around and reshaping it to be more of what we want than just working with what is here and adding things we like. I plan to pop over to the gardening swap page you have in a minute...I just took photos of all over plants that I have.

 

[Sallysec]

Ethel is fine by the way and she is happy and all are in coop for the night. I also got an egg from the townhouse today and my hatching eggs came in from florida. They are resting now.

 

[charlie14]

The nuts just fall off all over the place and will stain anything they touch including your hands. They also need to be husked and processed before you can eat them. You will be much happier with peach and apple trees. They are harder to grow but worth it. We have 12 apple trees.

 

[Sallysec]

Oh thank goodness you told me charlie...I would be so ticked off with the stain. My son LOVEs to collect the acorns from our oak tree in buckets and he and I would both be mad if he got color all over him from picking them up in one of his buckets. One day he told me he saves the squirrels time by collecting them in buckets. He stopped when they ate the face off his pumpkin last year.

 

[rbaker0345]

Yeah, black walnuts are a mess. Plus, they're really difficult to husk, like to the point where I used to put them in the road and let the cars run over them for a couple of days just so I could get to the actual nut in order to crack it. Plus the staining, it left stains on my hands and in the road for months. Don't do black walnuts. Plums did very well for my mother except that they came out with these little tiny spots on them. We couldn't figure out what was happening to them, then my mom saw the hummingbirds poking holes in them and drinking the nectar. Didn't know they could do that.

 

[Sallysec]

LOL I love my dwarf plum tree. I have had it for a few years and I get a lot of fruit surprisingly from it.
This is a shot from last year I think

This year the chickens loved the flowers and the fruit...

 

[Sallysec]

My dog is refusing to come in the house....***...its 1AM and she has been out there all night...

 

[charlie14]

My kids collected a few 5 gallon buckets last year and put them out in January for the deer. The deer checked them out but liked to dig them up themselves. (Maybe dog smelled a bear, that will make them act funny.)

Oh thank goodness you told me charlie...I would be so ticked off with the stain. My son LOVEs to collect the acorns from our oak tree in buckets and he and I would both be mad if he got color all over him from picking them up in one of his buckets. One day he told me he saves the squirrels time by collecting them in buckets. He stopped when they ate the face off his pumpkin last year. 

The nuts just fall off all over the place and will stain anything they touch including your hands. They also need to be husked and processed before you can eat them. You will be much happier with peach and apple trees. They are harder to grow but worth it. We have 12 apple trees.

 

[LSzajko]

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Thank you! Everything was perfect! Whew~ Good luck with your new job!