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[Stumpfarmer]

The leaves smother everything they fall on except their seedlings which sprout by the tens of thousands every year. After a while, they drop branches and trunks for no apparent reason.

This would be an issue on this acerage ?

I want something deciduous, with color, and especially fall color, that will let sun in in winter, shade in summer....mowing underneath to keep seedlings at bay....I already planted a Crimson King (Queen ?) red/purple leaves...beautiful tree.

What I want more than anything and cannot grow here because of extremely sandy soil and wind exposure, is plain old Acer circinatum: Vine Maple. Best fall color ever, and the winter branches are a gorgeous twisty moss-garden. I can grow Big Leaf Maple (there are three up on the hill that are about 28"dbh) but on top of hallerlake's accurate complaints for plants near the house, I'm sensitive to their large fuzzy pollen grains.


Maples are hinky: you eithercan't grow the ones you want, or the ones you can grow take over like the hordes of Genghis Khan.


Did I mention that the squirrels bit through the probe wire for my last Indoor/outdoor recording thermometer? I broke down and ordered two new ones on Amazon (because after two weeks of local search all I've been able to find are the wireless kind that don't work with low-E windows of the generation I own) and also two hanging squirrel-baffles, as the one's I can find here are pole-mounted and need serious weather-proofing to work as hanging chicken feeder shields.



So now, lunch.

Japanese maples are a weed at Botann's. He brings me one whenever he visits. I've an extra in a pot if anyone wants to come get it.

I need to go see him or at least write and show him rhodie pics. His place was basically Eden with a view of the Cascades.

Although he does have a distubing number of 2-3 earthquakes in his quarter-section!

 

[Greg Richardson]

Hundreds of Nursery pots (Mill Creek/S.Everett)

Date: 2012-11-14, 2:17PM PST
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Several hundred 1, 2 & 3ga. black plastic planters. Truck is broke so come n get em.

Thanks Rich 206-276-6201

 

[hallerlake]

Hundreds of Nursery pots (Mill Creek/S.Everett)

Date: 2012-11-14, 2:17PM PST
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Several hundred 1, 2 & 3ga. black plastic planters. Truck is broke so come n get em.

Thanks Rich 206-276-6201

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I've got plenty of my own, thank you.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Hundreds of Nursery pots (Mill Creek/S.Everett)

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I've got plenty of my own, thank you.

My thought was "I've got too many 1, 2 and3 gallon pots. Now if he had a few squat 7s, I'd walk there for them!" Squat sevens being the rose pot of choice, of course.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

So: picnic umbrella better stored, sheep and chickens given attention, new hired hand called, dinner meat thawing, Oh, yeah, I need to get some stuff ready for mailing.

I need to get a package ready to be mailed, and then go shut things up for the night so as to be ready to trim and wash my hair so it will be mostly dry when my daughter comes over to juggle feed sacks. It's going to be a cute trick for me to take a shower and not end up taking a truly badly advised nap, though.

Forgot: I had a visitor while I was feeding, the pullet I've taken to calling Bluebell. She looks more and more Australorp, minus the blue and the rounded Ameraucana tail, and she's bigger than Malvina now, although I'm pretty sure she's younger than the Hamburg pullets: my cousin was given four huge SQ Australorps when his brother's father-in-law died, and I suspect she's the offspring of one of those hens and the Blue Ameraucana I traded CL for last year (who is now over at the Chicken Whisperer's house).Bluebell follows me around and takes care of any spills, which is nice. Wonder what I'd have to trade him for her?

 

[JennS]

Sounds like we have the framework of a plan here.....
-- CR has the trailer that will hold his 6 ft table. We can put the food in there. (It's a bit more discrete, too, being inside).
-- If he can park the trailer in or alongside a covered area, we can sit our chairs there (remember BYO Chairs).
-- If a covered area isn't available, how about setting the 10 x 10 pop-up at the tail end of the trailer and gathering there? With both CR & CL's pop up that would really work well! (Or whatever CR thinks best at the time.)
-- Electricity is an unknown, so don't count on it.

-- The weather is predicted to be low 50s & wet. A cozy leisurely sit-down-and-chew-the-fat gathering may turn into a shorter hunker-down-and-hand-me-a-warm-mug sort of gathering. But either way, would it work to set 12:30 as the time to gather?

-- BYO Beverages whether hot or cold. Is that okay?

-- Now... the really big question.... Meal or Snacks? My vote is to keep it simple - just snacks.

Unless something happens at the last minute (crossing fingers and toes), I'll be there with my son and a friend to help wrangle the toddler and the pullets I hope to buy. We'll probably get there around 12:30, so we'll look for the snack gathering. I'll put something together to bring and share.

I've got millions of columbine seeds (I have purple and white in my yard, nothing fancy) and some calendula "Buttermilk Baby" seeds. I'll dig up some big leaf maples and anything odd from behind the garage.

Jennifer

 

[Chickielady]

What I want more than anything and cannot grow here because of extremely sandy soil and wind exposure, is plain old Acer circinatum: Vine Maple. Best fall color ever, and the winter branches are a gorgeous twisty moss-garden. I can grow Big Leaf Maple (there are three up on the hill that are about 28"dbh) but on top of hallerlake's accurate complaints for plants near the house, I'm sensitive to their large fuzzy pollen grains.
Maples are hinky: you eithercan't grow the ones you want, or the ones you can grow take over like the hordes of Genghis Khan.
Did I mention that the squirrels bit through the probe wire for my last Indoor/outdoor recording thermometer? I broke down and ordered two new ones on Amazon (because after two weeks of local search all I've been able to find are the wireless kind that don't work with low-E windows of the generation I own) and also two hanging squirrel-baffles, as the one's I can find here are pole-mounted and need serious weather-proofing to work as hanging chicken feeder shields.
So now, lunch.

We have ALOT of vine maple here...I will scout out some for you as soon as I can, this time of year most leaves are off & difficult to find amongst leaf litter.
But I will try.
What they hate is dryness and sunlight.
They do much better in shady forests with a broken canopy.
Now that we have taken so many tall firs out, the remaining exposed vine maples (around the house) may just pitch a fit, get sunburnt & die.
Some are 20-30 feet tall~~~~~~~~~
There must be hordes off in these woods small enough I can find & dig for you though~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Chickielady]

I like the lactose free chocolate milk just fine and it is ready made nothing to mix or mess with

I was thinking of DW and her diabetes.....that way she could have some

Einstein LOVES the Darigold chocolate milk....but he also LOVES whole milk mixed with the Hershey's syrup.

 

[Chickielady]

It's a rare year when the fall color of big leaf maples is impressive.

So think I should toss them ?????????????????????????

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

JB or CL, I don't remember which one of you asked for it, but here is my son finishing 8th out of 50 for District XC Chamionship qualifying him for State. It is one of the funniest running pics I have caught. Alex is #75 looks like he is gonna punch the kid he is passing, which he did pass just before the finish line.

And he was sporting his pink laces for Breast Cancer Awareness