What apples ripen in your location before these two apples?
You mention fabric around Haskap. I’ve heard that voles or mice will live under the fabric. I’m told that in this case, late fall after leaf drop, you can fold the fabric onto the dormant plants and let owls hunt the rodents that have to come out to find food.
Not much that I grow. Centennial and Trailman crabs are a bit earlier, as is Melba. I don’t grow them, but Yellow Transparent and Lodi would both be earlier.
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I’m going to be taking a load of Galas to the food pantry here. Probably a load of pears as well
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Good on you.
My wife has taken a few loads of cukes and beets to our pantry this summer. I may take some apples there later this fall.
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Do you make pickles? Something i’ve always wanted to do but never have.
I’ve tried, but they never turn out well.
My wife makes so many pickles that it’s a source of contention in our household. Quarts and quarts and quarts(and pints and pints and pints). They are great pickles, but how many damn pickles can a guy eat?
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Well what’s the answer? You clearly represent the upper limit, right?
My uncle has made pickles for 30 years and they are given out freely and graciously accepted by family members, they are incredible
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I don’t even like pickles that much to be honest.
My kids can polish off a lot of pickles. I have to buy them often. I end up wasting a lot of dill that grows up in my garden and i have to toss it in the compost pile.
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For the past few years i had a seed pack of Japanese seedless cucumbers that i would grow. They did ok. Cucumbers seem to do well–lots of fruit—too many–and after the whole plant gets a disease and dies. I think its cucumber beetle’s population builds up and just wipes them out.
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Broken Arrow Nursery has a wide variety of witch hazel cultivars! Have a look & see if there’s a variety that fits what you are looking for!
https://www.brokenarrownursery.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Witch+hazels
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I’m on their alert list for several varieties for my front yard in Madison, WI (zone 5b).
yeah they do, every fall I put poison bait bars under the fabric around plants, 1 every 150 feet or so. I havent had any significant damage since ive been doing that
Highs in the 60Fs (low) and lows in the 40Fs…are my tomatoes doomed? I’m ripping out the last of my melons. We’ll get more warm weather for sure. Just might be a week.
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I’m wondering the same. Right now, 36 is the forecasted low for Saturday night. We’ll have frost in low lying areas if that happens
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First time making jam.
Wild plums
What I tasted was good, but we’ll see how it sets up
edit…I opened a jar and gave it a taste. It did set up nicely and tastes pretty darn good.
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My carrot experiment was pretty much a fail. For what i paid for the seeds i probably could have bought the same number of carrots at the store. Growing in pure pine bark fines was probably the culprit and also not thinning enough. I’ll try again but with a peat moss/sand mix. I’ll use the pine bark fines for something else. Maybe potted fruit trees.
Seckel pears starting to fall from the tree. Lots of small fruit. These trees really need to be thinned early in the year. Next year I doubt it has much of a crop.
