I used to live in Macon, Georgia, and your post got my attention. I remember the summer of 1977 because I had just graduated from high school and was doing remodeling work on the outside of my parent's home before I started college. It was the most miserably hot summer I can ever remember. I looked on wunderground.com to see if my memories were accurate. For much of that summer, both the temp and relative humidity were over 90. We had several peach and plum trees, which had wonderful fruit that summer. My mother was pealing peaches to put in our freezer, and whenever I went inside to cool off, I would eat so many peaches, she complained that she could barely peal them as fast as I ate them. I know we had one Elberta, which was our latest bearing peach, with a variety of other cling and freestone peaches. The trees were hanging so heavy with fruit, I had propped up all their limbs to keep them from breaking. I did not know then about thinning the fruit, so the limbs were so heavy with fruit they were about to rip off the trunks without support. I drove metal fence posts into the ground around each tree, and strung wire between the posts in a criss-cross star to support the limbs. Even though I had not thinned the fruit, the peaches were still good sized, ranging from tennis ball to baseball size. We had a really heavy bloom that spring, because January 1977 had been very cold. Several days in January 1977 set the all time record lows for Macon, and several days in June and July set the all time record highs. The trees were kept mulched with copious amounts of composted straw and horse manure. The summer before I had started growing organically for the first time. I had just learned about composting and was a zealous convert. I lived in Macon, just north of Peach county where the commercial peach growing belt begins, and also lived in Cordele, "The Watermelon Capital of the World" which is just south of the peach growing belt. I can testify that the summers are both hot and very humid. Maybe your peaches are just homesick and not in a "New York State of Mind". ;-) Greg

Theresa your wish is my command. I had to google the english version anyways hahaha Oh Tannenbaum, Oh Tannenbaum wie grün sind deine Blätter. Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit. Nein auch im Winter wenn es schneit. Oh Tannenbaum Oh Tannenbaum, wie grün sind deine Blätter. When we had x mas celebration at night on the 24th, we HAD to sing! My dad was deadly serious about it! As a kid we always giggled about it and he got real mad. As an adult and things happeing in life. The times we did get to spend x mas together and sang. I did not giggle anymore. For I understood now what CHristmas really means and for my father that was always clear as long as I can think back. To this day when I sing silent night, my dads one song he put his soul into when he sang it, you could hear it in his voice. I choke up and cry. Since my dad died 10 years ago I just can not sing it anymore for I miss him to much. In a good way. Not sadness. But I AM happy that my x mas tree did exactly what it was suppose to do for ya. You know I decorated it JUST for this special picture of the day :-)))) ha ha ha normally I do not think I would have come up with that idea lol. I feel sorry for you all. It will be a long brutal winter hahahahahahaha Lucy

3pinktrees-thanks so much! Im actually in the Northeast-Upstate NY to be exact...in a very country area! ILoveRed-thank you, I’m glad you got to see it! I had no idea this thread even still existed :). It’s amazing, as it took me 5 years to build and I’ve been in it for 5 years (and I am still not finished) so this thread was started about 1 year into it! shwshw- thank you as well-my goal was to build a simple, small, cottage like home :) Did you see the rainbow in the one pic? :)

I know, I'm a sideways tomato planter myself. I was going to look up the calomel but was tired and had a long day. I'll look it up today. I have an old book that has recipes and basically diy from the 1800's so I'll check there if I can't find it online. I know I watched several youtube clips where they were applying discs over the base of vege plants but I can't for the life of me remember why. I'll see if I can find that too. I thought it was neat how some things stay the same and others are so different 70 years later.