Another Leo! Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday, Ken! And may you have many more.

Best Wishes, Ken!

Bejay

Thanks everyone. Right now, at this moment my blood sugar is quite low, so I need a bit of sugar in the form of a nice juicy plout..

Hi Ken,

Happy birthday!

JohnT

I hope it was a happy birthday, Ken, and that your low blood sugar didn't prevent you from enjoying the day.

Carol

Ken!
I hope this next year of your life is fantastic, and that all your jars seal, heehee! You help so very many of us here for so long, and you are a most appreciated online advisor to all of us.
Best regards,
Glad - (and hope you are too, this new year of life!)

I hope you had an enjoyable birthday. Maybe you needed birthday cake instead of the pluot !
Did you do anything special for your birthday ?

Happy birthday from another fan, Ken. Thanks for sharing your canning expertise. Hope your day was a happy one.

No, no special events were planned and the day came and went without incident. No cake and no party, just getting too old for parties. Even for that, I have lost a few friends in recent years too, so I feel more like a loner now. At least I have my garden to occupy my mind. As to Plouts, they were great. The green color ones were nice and crunchy and were the sweetest tasting of all. My little grafted tree with plums, apricots, and peaches had a few small plums too. Amazing taste, and the birds attacked them too. Need to get out there and set up my contraption (motion sensing with loud sounds and lights) to scare away the midnight raiders (possums). They seem to love cataloupe and most other sweet melons.
Thanks to all..

Sorry I missed it! Happy belated birthday!
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Deanna

Ken,

Like Deanna, I'll chime in late but wish you a great year. (I spent the whole weekend in my garden and didn't turn on the computer once.)

Glad you have those celebratory pluots --- who needs that artery-busting cake when you've got great stuff to harvest?

May your garden grow and your canner boil well all year.

Zabby, also a Leo

Me too..........Leo. Boy, there's a bunch of us!
Roar!
:+)

I was amazed that out of all of the 4 grafted plum, peach and apricots on the single tree I have, that the red plums were so good. The tree is still quite small and now has about 10 peaches almost ripe. About two weeks ago, I noticed the 6 or so small red plums had been slashed open, probably by birds. I picked them all and was amazed at their taste. The pluots are usually always good, but these few plums were also very sweet, even though the seed/stone inside was fuzed to the meat. I don't own a plout tree and have been considering planting one, but they barely can handle a Z6 climate. They must be bought through Dave Wilson nurseries as they are 'patented'. I was not happy with a nectarine tree I planted about 4 years ago, so that one was destroyed. Its fruits would turn dark brown and fall off very early. The woodchuck also used to climb that tree and chew limbs off. Because of my physical age and aches and pains, I am reducing my vegetable garden to about half its size in future years, in favor of growing a few more fruit trees and other permenent things like asparagus, and berry buses. Right now, asian pears are planted, as well as a hopeful replacement for the dead quince I planted this past spring. Gotta get out there today and pick all the apples off one of my trees. They look really good, with no insect damages or any nasty diseases.

Again, thanks to all for your birthday wishes. Its people like the ones here, who are truly friends in the home canning world.

I've been out of town and missed it, but I wanted to wish you a happy birthday.

Congratulations on those apples. My apple trees didn't do very well this year, they got hit right after blossoms opened with a late frost so my three trees have maybe 2 dozen apples total. Ah well, such is the life of a farmer/gardener.

Annie