in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

[Pasha838]

Love the poppies! The wildflowers are just starting to kick off here. I'm enjoying seeing all the blooms

Bet your system makes some rich dirt in your greenhouse!

Yes, I do not buy nitrogen fertilizers.
And every spring I wash the windows of greenhouses with a hose and a rag.

 

[Pasha838]

It was 22° here last night. Hoping that's the last of that!

Today we have +3 C in the day. In the night we have a frost )

 

[Pasha838]

wait, or 22 was 22 F, -30 C??

 

[azurbanclucker]

Love the poppies! The wildflowers are just starting to kick off here. I'm enjoying seeing all the blooms

Bet your system makes some rich dirt in your greenhouse!

We've got probably 2 more weeks, though if it keeps raining like it has we may get a secondary bloom when all these flowers go to seed if it's not too hot. I haven't seen the desert bloom like this in my entire life.

 

[ChicksnMore]

We've got probably 2 more weeks, though if it keeps raining like it has we may get a secondary bloom when all these flowers go to seed if it's not too hot. I haven't seen the desert bloom like this in my entire life.

The blessing of good rain

 

[Isadora]

 

[Cynthia12]

Here it is the usual, habitual weather, it is always like this here. Snow actively begins to melt only in April. Although in March it also melts, but slowly. But in April there will be many streams and even rivers. In the place where I live, there is a forest river Klubish, in spring and early summer it is considered a river and even marked on the map, but at the end of summer it gradually dries up so much that only wet sand remains at the bottom. In autumn it starts to rain - and she gets water again.
There is also such a thing as return frosts. Usually they are in the middle or even the end of May. Once they were in June, ie. in the summer, and it killed my cherry tree that grew near the garage.
I am now writing through an online translator so as not to make unnecessary mistakes in English, but it does not write correctly too, lol, I do not know how to write. In general, there are two types - cherries and sour cherries. These are completely different berries, they are similar in appearance, but different in taste. Sweet cherries bear fruit in spring, cherries - closer to autumn. Here is the one that bears fruit in the spring, I died due to return frosts.
In general, in the place where I live, few people cultivate them, everyone says that in winter they freeze out, and only the part that is under the snow remains alive. And it turns out that the plants do not bear fruit, but only grow new young branches every year, which freeze out every winter.
I went for the trick - I have a relatively large garage for 2 cars, there is a very wide entrance, and there is still a road. I planted this cherry near the garage so that every winter, when cleaning the road, snow would fit on it. As a result, when it is cold outside, it is covered by at least a 4-meter snowdrift of snow taken from the road. This is a rarely visited road, there is no spilled gasoline and debris on it, so the snow is quite safe.
Well, this cherry has grown with me for many years, and I picked berries there. And then in June the frost hit -11 C and the tree died. It was necessary to cover it with a film, but I did not expect that at night in July there would be a sudden frost. I overslept and didn't notice.
Now a hawthorn grows in this place, with white flowers, large thorns and large red berries in autumn. This plant is quite suitable for the local climate.
In general, I live on fairly cold hills, they are located about 50 km from Moscow, but the temperature here is always 10 or even 15 degrees lower than in the city. I watch the weather forecast on TV - and I always turn down the announced temperature by 10 degrees, and I'm never wrong ))
Although pears, as a plant that is quite thermophilic, grow quite well and bear fruit here. True, these are most likely experiments of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy - they fought with these pears for many years, trying to cultivate them here. As a result, they bred varieties in which the pears themselves are small, but at the same time the trees grow quite well and endure severe frosts. I have 4 of these trees, last year I picked a lot of pears.
The fruits are small but quite tasty. Apparently, they were made small so that they had time to ripen in a short summer)
And I will plant tomato seedlings no earlier than April. At first, she will stand on the windows in the house, and then after mid-May she will go to the greenhouses, which will warm up and thaw by this time. And geese and ducks from greenhouses will go out for a walk outside. I have such a system - goose and duck sheds are attached to greenhouses, in winter the bird walks not on the street, but in greenhouses.

I had a cherry tree that was doing very well when we moved in this home in 2007. They were the big sweet cherries. At my last home I had the small cherries, not sweet. We call them pie cherries. I've had apple trees, I've had them and the cherry tree cut down. Old. Small fruit. I still have a pear tree but I will be having that cut down this spring. Maybe. . I may try and save it. Have it trimmed the way it should be. Will see.

 

[Pasha838]

I had a cherry tree that was doing very well when we moved in this home in 2007. They were the big sweet cherries. At my last home I had the small cherries, not sweet. We call them pie cherries. I've had apple trees, I've had them and the cherry tree cut down. Old. Small fruit. I still have a pear tree but I will be having that cut down this spring. Maybe. . I may try and save it. Have it trimmed the way it should be. Will see.

I usually leave fruit plants unless they are seriously ill. If fruit plants do not suit me or there are too many of them, I just plant them over the fence. In Russia, in this regard, if this does not happen in the city, there is quite free legislation - apparently, because no one will catch a hooligan planting plums or cherries. A very old blackcurrant bush, which I inherited from my late grandfather, moved over my fence. It has long ceased to bear fruit and, logically, it would be worth cutting it down, but I was sorry and I was not too lazy to dig it up and replant it. This bush was quite huge, and I needed a long iron crowbar just to even lift it. Despite the rather barbaric transplant, the plant has taken root behind the fence and now grows near a country road. There are almost no cars there, so I sometimes take a few leaves from this bush to brew them instead of tea.
I also have a whole set of plums there that propagate by root shoots. She had to be removed, I dug her up and dropped her over the fence. Neighbors across the road looked at me suspiciously - why do I plant so many plums, making a whole alley out of them. I think they thought I was going to make some kind of alcoholic drink out of these plums. And I just planted extra plants. Sometimes they bear fruit, I pick them up and, after washing the berries and removing the stone, I put the pulp in bags and freeze it. Then I make egg and flour pies with them.

I'm a little confused in English, so I'll probably post pictures from the Internet so as not to get confused.
Here is a plant I have borne fruit in the spring and could not stand the frost in the summer

Approximately such cherries grow in me, they bear fruit at the end of summer

This figure shows the difference - 1. the inscription on top is cherry, 2. on the bottom right is another... cherry??, 3. and on the bottom is plum.
Unfortunately, the online translator gives me the same word, translating into English, but I don't know how to write correctly. I suspect that these plants have different names, because they are really different - their berries are very similar, but they differ in taste and these plants bear fruit at different times.

4. Small bushes with smaller berries, but also extremely similar, also grow here, we call them felt cherries.

When I finally got confused, I decided to just take and use the Latin names.
1. Prúnus subg. Cérasus
2. Prúnus ávium
3. Prunus
4. Prunus tomentosa, syn. Cerasus tomentosa

 

[ChicksnMore]

I usually leave fruit plants unless they are seriously ill. If fruit plants do not suit me or there are too many of them, I just plant them over the fence. In Russia, in this regard, if this does not happen in the city, there is quite free legislation - apparently, because no one will catch a hooligan planting plums or cherries. A very old blackcurrant bush, which I inherited from my late grandfather, moved over my fence. It has long ceased to bear fruit and, logically, it would be worth cutting it down, but I was sorry and I was not too lazy to dig it up and replant it. This bush was quite huge, and I needed a long iron crowbar just to even lift it. Despite the rather barbaric transplant, the plant has taken root behind the fence and now grows near a country road. There are almost no cars there, so I sometimes take a few leaves from this bush to brew them instead of tea.
I also have a whole set of plums there that propagate by root shoots. She had to be removed, I dug her up and dropped her over the fence. Neighbors across the road looked at me suspiciously - why do I plant so many plums, making a whole alley out of them. I think they thought I was going to make some kind of alcoholic drink out of these plums. And I just planted extra plants. Sometimes they bear fruit, I pick them up and, after washing the berries and removing the stone, I put the pulp in bags and freeze it. Then I make egg and flour pies with them.

I'm a little confused in English, so I'll probably post pictures from the Internet so as not to get confused.
Here is a plant I have borne fruit in the spring and could not stand the frost in the summer

Approximately such cherries grow in me, they bear fruit at the end of summer

This figure shows the difference - 1. the inscription on top is cherry, 2. on the bottom right is another... cherry??, 3. and on the bottom is plum.
Unfortunately, the online translator gives me the same word, translating into English, but I don't know how to write correctly. I suspect that these plants have different names, because they are really different - their berries are very similar, but they differ in taste and these plants bear fruit at different times.

4. Small bushes with smaller berries, but also extremely similar, also grow here, we call them felt cherries.

When I finally got confused, I decided to just take and use the Latin names.
1. Prúnus subg. Cérasus
2. Prúnus ávium
3. Prunus
4. Prunus tomentosa, syn. Cerasus tomentosa

They all look tasty

 

[Cynthia12]

I usually leave fruit plants unless they are seriously ill. If fruit plants do not suit me or there are too many of them, I just plant them over the fence. In Russia, in this regard, if this does not happen in the city, there is quite free legislation - apparently, because no one will catch a hooligan planting plums or cherries. A very old blackcurrant bush, which I inherited from my late grandfather, moved over my fence. It has long ceased to bear fruit and, logically, it would be worth cutting it down, but I was sorry and I was not too lazy to dig it up and replant it. This bush was quite huge, and I needed a long iron crowbar just to even lift it. Despite the rather barbaric transplant, the plant has taken root behind the fence and now grows near a country road. There are almost no cars there, so I sometimes take a few leaves from this bush to brew them instead of tea.
I also have a whole set of plums there that propagate by root shoots. She had to be removed, I dug her up and dropped her over the fence. Neighbors across the road looked at me suspiciously - why do I plant so many plums, making a whole alley out of them. I think they thought I was going to make some kind of alcoholic drink out of these plums. And I just planted extra plants. Sometimes they bear fruit, I pick them up and, after washing the berries and removing the stone, I put the pulp in bags and freeze it. Then I make egg and flour pies with them.

I'm a little confused in English, so I'll probably post pictures from the Internet so as not to get confused.
Here is a plant I have borne fruit in the spring and could not stand the frost in the summer

Approximately such cherries grow in me, they bear fruit at the end of summer

This figure shows the difference - 1. the inscription on top is cherry, 2. on the bottom right is another... cherry??, 3. and on the bottom is plum.
Unfortunately, the online translator gives me the same word, translating into English, but I don't know how to write correctly. I suspect that these plants have different names, because they are really different - their berries are very similar, but they differ in taste and these plants bear fruit at different times.

4. Small bushes with smaller berries, but also extremely similar, also grow here, we call them felt cherries.

When I finally got confused, I decided to just take and use the Latin names.
1. Prúnus subg. Cérasus
2. Prúnus ávium
3. Prunus
4. Prunus tomentosa, syn. Cerasus tomentosa

Your first two photos we call..Bing Cherries. The last one we call pie cherries. . Morello cherries. We had the Big Bing cherries at this home. Loved them!!