I want both pear and plum, but have no idea where I would put them ... hmmm& you've all made me want a plum tree! Or maybe pear.![]()
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I want both pear and plum, but have no idea where I would put them ... hmmm& you've all made me want a plum tree! Or maybe pear.![]()
My neighbor has a Catalpa tree that hangs over the fence- just waiting for catalpa worms to show up to go fishing- or feed the hens.
We had bee houses for years at the place in Portland, this is our first year at the new house. This is the bug house.@NewBoots if you get a chance will you take a pic of your bug & bee houses? I'm trying so hard to make a nice place for pollinators here & would love a hive but can't because of the bears - maybe a house would work!
I want both but I just have no more space. Our soil is so terrible here we have to box in any fruit trees we want to actually grow and bear fruit. We do have a bunch of crabapples, a regular apple, and a prune plum but I want MOR!!! Especially pears.& you've all made me want a plum tree! Or maybe pear.![]()
Awesome, I am really itching for a battery powered one to trim the area around DPs shrub and flower garden. Power mower is too big and the weed eater has an annoying trailing cord.it didn't kill my back @NewBoots.
My tomatoes are doing great but those danged peppers sprout so slowly and then grow even slower! I am really hoping for great things from my wintered over peppers.PEPPERS! UGH - they take forever.
I think it is, we never saw any in Portland unless they were the ones you can buy as egg cases. Once we moved here to the south coast we started seeing them and researched it, this is the very edge of their range.I wonder might be too cool and wet here for praying mantis
I always wondered about that, catalpa worms really do come from catalpa trees?My neighbor has a Catalpa tree that hangs over the fence- just waiting for catalpa worms to show up to go fishing- or feed the hens.
I am with you sister, when I win the lottery I'll have a small orchard.I want both pear and plum, but have no idea where I would put them ... hmmm
Not sure, but I'm going to plant winter punkin, sugar pumpkin, black diamond watermelon and butternut squash all together. I figure why the heck not.Can I plant pumpkins and cantaloupe together?
Uh oh. That sounds like my covid experience. Get some over the counter pain meds, a thermometer, and a pulse oximeter (drug stores have them). And your favorite muscle ointment - I like tiger balm red. The pain meds and ointment help with the aches so you can sleep at night, and the thermometer and pulse ox let you keep tabs on your health. I found my body had a hard time regulating my temp at all, so my temp would dip too low if I didn't keep enough blankets, then too high if I had too many, etc. So I checked it regularly when awake to keep it in a normal zone. But my oxygen levels and heart rate stayed okay, so that was the main thing.
Oh, and warm non-dairy milk with plain cocoa powder mixed in helped a LOT with the covid cough. Add honey if you can't handle plain cocoa, but less sugar is better. (Cocoa is shown to help with cough.) Go with non-dairy milk since dairy can increase congestion. I also found that putting one of those vibrating back massagers on my upper back seemed to help break things up so coughs were more productive.
Anyway, not trying to scare you - you may not get the full experience I did, or it might not be covid - but those are my tips in case you do.
I did also find it helpful to get some sunshine (alone, in my yard, not around people). Not sure if the help was all mental or if the vitamin d helped a little? Regardless, prayers sent your way!!! And keep us updated.
I feel the same way.... I have one dedicated bed for strawberries. They went in last spring. They grew very well, and I pinched all runners so they would focus on root growth. Not many strawberries last year bc it was first year. Also, I killed quite a few when I over-fertilized late summer. This spring the remaining ones look very good, lots of flowers. Hoping for a good haul. But, yeah...are they worth a whole bed??
irises are beautiful!
you should prune your plum tree. if you leave too many branches it will die. let it develop roots first. ask me how I learned it, lol.
I got my test results. Negative.
I'm happy the test says I don't have Covid, but I certainly have something. Sticking to taking vitamins and cold/flu meds and staying away from DW and the kids for now. Hoping I'm not in that false negative percentage. It's likely a strain of the flu though if I had to guess. Just riding it out unless things get worse, in which case I would see a doctor. I am getting some mucus out, so that's a good sign.
I still wet outside into the garden of course even though I'm sick and it's cool and wet out. I transplanted zucchini that I just up potted the other day. The roots already extended through the bottom of the pots and the real leaves were already open and growing. I didn't want to keep them inside longer than necessary. I also need to transplant the rest of the marigolds. I haven't gotten to them yet though. That will likely be tomorrow as long as the rain holds off.