What's happening today 2016?

[Levers101]

Note to self: don’t buy pluots at the big box store. Will ruin taste buds.

The reason I asked about the fall color of Alderman was this photo from the UW Uncommon Fruit blog:

http://uncommonfruit.cias.wisc.edu/japanese-american-hybrid-plums/

We are going to be in the upper 60 and 70’s for the 10 day, with some rain. We are probably 2 weeks early on crabapple and early apple blooming because of the weather. Going to cross my fingers on fireblight, but I have never noticed any crabapples get it around here.

[warmwxrules]

Yeah…it varies by year. I don’t think last fall was anything special for color. They mention strong branches and that is true. I can easily climb up into that tree and stand without fear of damaging anything. I have a wild plum seedling that i’m growing out and the branches on that are very weak and tear easily. I’ve had to prune off long branches for fear they will break. I’d like to try a few other hybrids (Toka/etc) and see how the fruit compare. Superior is a good fruit, but needs to be thinned a lot. Alderman seems to thin itself pretty good. Its just a PC magnet so if you don’t spray a often and early, nothing will make it to maturity.

[Chikn]

Spring’s here. Picked 5# asparagus this morning!! So excited. Asparagus eggs and cheese for lunch:yum:

[Derby42]

How deep did they have to dril

[northwoodswis4]

Derby,
They only had to go down 80 feet for the well.

[warmwxrules]

I’m assuming its a submersible 230v well pump? I see that they do sell 115v submersible pumps.

[MuddyMess_8a]

Yesterday I had my first taste of freshly brewed homegrown, homemade green tea. My youngest son harvested and prepared the leaves from his tea camelias. He’s in the process of creating a hedge from them.

I managed to get the largest papaya, a TR Hoovey, one Cara mango, and the Mahoi banana into the ground. The Mahoi banana is such a short thing! It’s up to carrying 7 leaves, but is only around 2 feet tall. I thought it might be root bound because it is so short, but it wasn’t at all. Maybe it will put on some height now that it has its feet in the ground. It’s a relatively short variety, anyway, but it could still use a lot more height. Other than being a shorty, it has seemed to thrive.

I’m not quite to the halfway point planting the (potentially) fruiting tropicals. I need to start get the next bed prepped before I go much farther. It’s in the 90’s today. That drastically reduces my desire to work outside in the middle half of the day. At the same time it increases the need to spend time watering.

[northwoodswis4]

I believe they are installing a 220v pump today. I didn’t go out to watch, as I’m not feeling that great today and it is raining lightly. I was not aware that they also sell 115v ones. Good to know. Thanks.

[thecityman]

@Chikn is having some computer issues and asked me to post these for him. Looks like you didn’t get rid of all your asparagus phil! These look GREAT!

[Derby42]

Does any one like to eat their asparagus raw? I don’t have much and I eat about half of it while I am rinsing it off.

[thecityman]

My hand is raised in response to that question. But mine don’t make it all the way to the rinse process like yours! I eat about 1/2 of mine standing in my patch!

[warmwxrules]

If its fresh picked i will. If you know where to look, it grows wild.

A buddy has what he calls the “Grand Slam” or something. Catches trout, shoots a turkey (its open now), picks asparagus and then finds some morels…all in one day …

[Derby42]

Now that is an impressive day. I feel lucky if I can get that done in a week.

[Bradybb]

That almost sounds like the qualifications of being a man,in New Zealand,I think,if a guy shoots a Pheasant and catches a Salmon in one day.Forgive me ladies,all I read about were the males. Brady

[thecityman]

I like your buddy all of a sudden. I went turkey hunting Sunday, picked asparagus today (not wild, though), and hope to go fishing this weekends. Sadly, Morels (aka Dry Land Fish) aren’t up yet here and its been a dry spring so we not get many at all this year. Still, your buddy definitely has some good days outside.

[warmwxrules]

Yeah…its all wild…asparagus, morels, trout, turkeys…the key here is timing. You need to draw a good turkey season (probably season 2 or 3) to time everything…asparagus seems to come before morels most years. A good rain and warm nights are helpful too.

[Bart]

Does any one like to eat their asparagus raw? I don’t have much and I eat about half of it while I am rinsing it off.

Yep! As you well know, the fresh picked stuff doesn’t need to be cooked at all.

[Antmary]

Blueberries are flowering like crazy, bumblebees and sweet fragrance… My first year with so much bloom, so I am very exited.

[MuddyMess_8a]

That’s a fantastic amount of blooms! You are going to have a plentiful supply of blueberries this year. I can already taste them.

[warmwxrules]

Just a heads up if your in the woods. Talking to some guys who are big into turkey hunting and they say they’ve never seen ticks as bad as this year. One guy had 10 on him after just a short walk. This is in central WI. I had Lyme last spring and i’m not going anywhere near the forests at this time.