Beautiful orchard @scottfsmith
There is something weird about your land though…it goes up and down?
It’s hard to describe living almost all of your life on land that is absolutely flat. I’m envious of a sloped yard!
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First pass at thinning Flavor Grenade Pluot. Will do again in a few weeks.
I bought a zippered tree net I will put on. It’s a small enough mesh it should keep most flying insects out, but I am a bit worried it might hold moisture in after a rain…or catch wind in a storm.
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Oh that’s good to know, maybe there is hope after all! Just hoping that my very young crabapple has enough flowers for the bloom to last.
Goumi pictures 20250328. Today 20250330 a small amount of flower are open on the Tillamook.
Red Gem
Sweet Scarlot
Tillamook
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Some pics between rain showers today.
Wild plum blooms
Wild plum
More pear blossoms
Quince blooms
Quince (left) and forsythia
Did some mowing this afternoon, first time on the rider. Figured with more rain forecast this week, I’d better get to it before it got out of hand.
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I have the Dolgo and Williams Pride. Dolgo has been blooming like mad for a week now. It’s impressive. Bloomed the first year I put it in. I added it for pollination of my other apples. So far it is not letting me down.
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Wild gooseberry (nothing on the tames yet).
Apricot rootstock.
Red delicious apple.
Winter speedwell/veronica.
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Wild blackberries starting to bud out.
Old Kieffer pear set tons of fruit. Glad I was able to learn how to manage it on this forum.
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This may be the year to get some Pluots,eh?
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Peach seedling blossoms, three years old, second year in ground. Wickson on m111, it has been in the ground since November 2022 and has had a rough life so far. Maybe that’s why it’s flowering so early. I’ve heard it repeatedly that m111 takes a long time to fruit. IMG_20250330_180212175|690x920
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We’ll see, my pluots are the first to bloom in March, so after a few freezes in April, we end up with nothing from them. We have a light freeze forecast next week, but nothing too bad. Yeah it would be awesome to get some pluots, but I’m not going to get too excited just because I know our weather.
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@EmptyBadger … below is a post with I think the last 2-3 years reaults.
I changed from mini incadescent Christmas lights to C9 incadescent bulbs this last year and they worked fine.
My lows here the past 3 winters were 3F (2023), 2F (2024), 12F (2025).
In 2022… i tried it but did not have the incadescent lights and and my greens died mid January.
With the lights… have successfully grown greens all winter the past 3 winters.
TNHunter
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@Shibumi … one more bit of information on the aluminum tape tags.
After I make my tags… i run off a little extra tape so that I can fold over and double up the tape where I punch my wire attachment hole.
Good to just add a little extra strength to the area where your wire is attached.
TNHunter
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Thanks @TNHunter
I was going to figure it out on my first one!
Waiting on the shipping tracking number.