Pitaya fruit turning pink - protect from critters?
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Lars/J. Robert Scott
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Comments (28)Ginger is just adorable!! If you have a cat that is a good mouser, they most definitely help keep the population of small rodents under control. That is what they were domesticated to do! Both houses I've owned were infested with mice when I moved in. Fortunately, both times I had a good mouser that took care of that problem. They have great patience, stealth, and determination; I watched a former cat wait for hours for a mouse to appear from under the refrigerator. This past winter was brutal - 7 feet of snow in 6 weeks - and the voles were having a field day under all that snow. There was an unusual amount of vole damage to my perennials. Also, the chipmunks are out of control this Spring. They are (or were) running around EVERYWHERE. My "good hunter girl" is taking care of this problem, catching them daily. I am conflicted about the fact that my cat occasionally kills birds too, and have taken great pains to locate the feeders and bird baths so that they are safe from the cat. However, cats are not the biggest killer of birds; by far, it is human destruction of their habitat, followed by collisions with buildings and other structures, windows, and cars. Cats are estimated to kill 200-300 million birds per year in the US; collisions kill up to 1 billion....See MoreMy Pitaya (Dragon Fruit) in SoCal
Comments (25)Its coming along great Tuan. I can see its going to have a nice paver patio around it. One of the tropicals that gives good returns are the Guava's. As always,Mango tree's also. Cherimoyas. White Sapote- but thats a full blown tree and I cant promise you would love it. I do..but some can't take the custard texture. Persimmons in fall give a lot of fruit. I'm waiting to endorse banana's. For you Papaya's should be easy. I hear Thai "Red" is a heavy producer along with the common Solo. Anyways- nice Pitaya set up....See MoreHow to protect blueberries from birds?
Comments (29)calfee20(6b), I love the enclosure that you have! Can you give the dimensions of your enclosure, the height of the outside posts, the height of the center of the enclosure, the length of the PVC over the top, the amount of space between the fence and the bushes, and the width of the central walkway, and some more photos? This is the best example of the kind of enclosure to protect my Dad's (he's 89 yrs) 30+ year old bushes. He can't take care of them now. I have access to the posts, PVC, wire, space to build it, and can buy the netting, and anything else. My Dad likes your design and we want to copy it. I, too, hope to have a bumper crop next year that we don't have to share with the birds!! We put up several plastic birds, that I move every day and they have helped a little, but your enclosure is what we like best. The mocking birds, blue jays, and robins are so heavy they're breaking the branches AND eating the berries. Got to stop it in Buford, GA....See MoreFirst Tomato Fruit Have Broken Color & Are Turning....
Comments (27)Hi Keith, Thanks. It is work to get the first ones so early, but you know just how tomato obsessed I am. We ate those first two as if they were precious and made of gold---letting them sit on the counter until fully, deeply ripe and the anticipation almost killed us. Finally, we got to gobble them up. Now, there's two more sitting there that are next in line to become BLTs. Congrats on the first fruit set. It seems odd to me that it is on Cherokee Purple, unless you didn't plant Fourth of July this year? I would have expected 4th of July to beat CP, but then sometimes strange things happen in the tomato world. I'm delighted to see how early you got some tomato plants in the ground. I feel like early planting always pays off as long as you can protect them from the cold. (And, well, here in OK, that means also protecting them from wildfires, hail, tornadoes, strong winds, floods, thunderstorms, torrential rainfall....and dust storms.....and that is just in March and April.) We now have 78 tomato plants growing---76 in the ground and the two Bush Early Girls in containers. I have room for a few more in the front garden, so I'm not really finished planting yet but I decided to wait for the Noah's Ark flood to pass before putting any more plants in the ground. The rain here has not yet really materialized in as large of an amount as forecast, but I'm good with that. I was worried about too much rain after all that rain fell last year. And, of course, now it probably will rain 3 or 4" overnight and tomorrow just because I don't want more rain. I know you'll be eating yummy fruit before you know it! For anyone new to the linked timeline of a tomato truss (one of my alltime favorite links for years now), please remember it is for one specific variety. Different varieties will move a little slower or faster, and weather conditions also can speed things up, or slow them down. DTMs are, as always, an estimate only. Dawn...See Moreeloise_ca
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