When the wind gives you lemons....make pie!
Laura LaRosa (7b)
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When wind makes bad things happen.....
Comments (17)I've raised it up quite a few times, and yes, I hear a crunch or two sometimes. Last Spring was the first time I noticed smaller leaves obviously stress-related. But it had plenty of berries. That's when I put the rock there and said, what the heck I'll give it a try and worse comes to worse I'll take it down. Just to make it clear, this Serviceberry has been toppled not just once or twice. Like I said, I had it staked well for two years, but during a strong thunderstorm one of the cables broke. I will try staking again and take off some height. Ianna, yes a vortex. I suspected that I have created this situation out of ignorance after reading an article on walled gardens. It stated that even a garden surrounded by tall hedge can cause winds to play havoc with trees and shrubs inside. That's what I have - tall privet hedge that I used to keep sheared to about 6' but it got to be a real chore so I grew lax and the hedge is way higher now....See MoreWhen a garden gives back
Comments (11)Thanks for the encouragement, everybody. We did have a good time. The party went better than I certainly thought I could do! bev2009, you beat me! I don't have any that are one year apart. My closest two are 18 months apart. Too bad you weren't here this week. We saw two bald eagles flying over the house for a couple of days. My first concern was that they were planning a full assault on the chickens, but they left chicken-less. We also considered getting our oldest, a girl, into falconry at a school about an hour from here, but it was too expensive for us to do. I think it would have been about $150 an hour because they required that I be present during her lesson because of her age, but charged me on top of that because I was present during her lesson. Don't know how they came up with that policy, but it was just too expensive. I think my oldest would have loved it as she is so good with animals and very observant, but that's life....See MoreWhen Life Gives You Lemons
Comments (16)Key limes can be finicky and ours produced tons of fruit sevral times during the year but it would produce well one year and then take a year off and come back strong the next year. Our Meyers lemon took over the yard and we had so many lemons it was not funny. The Hamlin produced well one year little the next and tons the next. The Valencia and Ruby Reds produced tons yearly. The sour orange produced well year after year. The honey tangerine took forever to fruit but when it began fruiting it produced yearly. It took time for some of them to mature and then you just have to learn your trees and know their cycle. Some of ours just fruited heavily and then rested the next year. We always had fruit though and it was so nice to walk outside and pick a fresh grapefruit for breakfast or oranges to make orange juice and lemons or limes whenever you needed them. Now I am attempting to grow citrus in containers and it is taking time but things will pay off down the road. Linda...See MoreWhen life gives you ice storms.....
Comments (6)I think it depends on where you are going to use it. I wouldn't use it on beds of edible plants when it is that new because of its reputed ability to tie up nitrogen as it decomposes, but you could put it in pathways or on beds of ornamentals. When I use bark mulch around edible plants, I usually put down some sort of barrier between the mulch and the plants--often it is thick cardboard or a good-quality woven cloth landscape fabric. My favorite way, though, is just to put down an inch of compost on top of the soil and then put the bark on top of it. I've never had an issue with any plants looking nitrogen deprived when I've used bark mulch that way. Our chipper/shredder mostly sits in the garage because we never have time to drag it out and use it, but once Tim retires in a few more years, we're going to go on a cleaning-up-the-woods rampage and clean up 10 acres of deadfall. Right now, unless the deadfall branches and trees happen to fall into a pathway, we leave it alone and let it decompose on the ground. I haven't told him about the mulch-making binge I'm planning for his retirement years. If he knew about it, he might postpone retirement a few more years. Dawn...See MoreVladimir (Zone 5b Massachusetts)
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