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[Going Bhonkers]

How do your plants survive in that kind of cold?!

 

[Iain Utah]

Good morning. Nice to see chatting by wonderful people on this thread.

Hi Ruru, good to see you! When do your geese normally start laying? November seems crazy for them to be laying. Will you be setting eggs soon?

Marty, 76F sounds like bliss!! But, I'm with Christine. I like my 70s in May.... and never want to see temps over 100 any time of year. My animals and I suffer heat stress when it goes over 90F, which thankfully is not often where I live.

Triplell, you weather sounds awful. So sorry! What were you doing in Germany when you were 7? One of my favorite July 4th memories was in the late 1990s, when my buddy, my GSD, and I hiked a few miles up the glacier on Mt. Shasta (northern Cali) to snowboard. That was a blast!

 

[Iain Utah]

Bhonkers, we have a rule that you do not plant your garden before Memorial Day where I live. You won't find citrus trees, elephant ears or birds of paradise here, but many plants (like my bulb flowers) need the freeze, and one of my favorite flowers, the peony, only thrives in freezing climates.

 

[psue]

How do your plants survive in that kind of cold?!

we grow different things!

Bhonkers, we have a rule that you do not plant your garden before Memorial Day where I live. You won't find citrus trees, elephant ears or birds of paradise here, but many plants (like my bulb flowers) need the freeze, and one of my favorite flowers, the peony, only thrives in freezing climates.

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GB our rose bushes will never get as big or pretty as yours but we have a wonderful wild rose that has tons of small blooms and smells wonderful. Most things around here wont grow if we dont get the freeze.

 

[Marty1876]

And then there are the crazy folks like me growing figs on the south side of my house, all stuffed with straw and wrapped up in plastic for the winter. I also have mini lemon trees that go in my bay window in the winter. We get away with a fair amount of stuff, and I grow some nice roses on the east side, but sadly I cannot make a blueberry survive a year here.

Trust me, I've tried!

 

[Marty1876]

 

[RURU]

Hi J,
I throw that females eggs out when she lays that early, she does it every year. I keep tossing them until the weather is better. Why waste their time sitting on the eggs for them not to hatch because it is still too cold.... We had 70 degrees two days ago and now it is 20's and wind blowing like crazy. St. Louis weather if you stay around long enough it will change from one temp to another in a day.....

 

[Iain Utah]

Ruru, makes sense. That's the kind of weather we get in early spring. One day it is gorgeous and pushing 70, the next day it is snowing. Do you hatch anything in incubators or let your birds do all the work?

FYI, I got my 3rd egg today from Ember!!! It was 153 grams and a beauty!! She is officially laying them consistently every other day between noon and 1pm. We may have a line-up with a local chef to buy them.

ETA: Forgot to say....... Marty, that picture is precious!!!!!!!!!!

 

[psue]

Very cute!

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Hi J,
I throw that females eggs out when she lays that early, she does it every year. I keep tossing them until the weather is better. Why waste their time sitting on the eggs for them not to hatch because it is still too cold.... We had 70 degrees two days ago and now it is 20's and wind blowing like crazy. St. Louis weather if you stay around long enough it will change from one temp to another in a day.....

Why dont you use the eggs? Instead of tossing them?

 

[Triplell]

Hello I am baaack,
J to answer your question my dad was in the air force at the time and we were stationed in Athens Greece. So for our everyother year vacation mom and dad splerged on a once in a life time vacation and toured Europe for a month. And what an education that was. Started in Greece, Itialy, Vatitican, Austria, Germay, Monticarlo, Switzerland then back to Greece. I was 7 at the time and what an impresion it made. After all I have walked on some of the same stones as Jesus, ate under some of the most wonderful paintings in the world, exeteria. I never lived close to family until we moved back to MN. So my thoughts are everyone else got to party with their cousins and I got one hell of an education and a love of history. I actually proved to my 7th grade social studies teacher that the Olympics did NOT take place in Athens. It was only a destination. After all then wouldn't it be called Athenpics then. I was born on the island of Okinwia, it was US territory when I was born but like idiots we gave it to the Japaneese. The Okinwia'ns begged us not to do it, they wanted to be part of us even if just a territory. I could go on and on. I LOVE this country so much after some of the things that I have seen in foreign countries. We have it so good and yet it seems like all we want is more for nothing.

We too don't plant our gardens until June 1st. Then you better get it all planted by the 5th so everything has time to grow. Our summers are very short but they are never dull and boring with nothing to do. This summer DH and I will be making many fishing trips for relaxing at least twice a week. Last year his addiction got in the way too much. I am looking forward to using the 17,000.00 boat he just had to have. If not dad and I will be going and he can just stay home.