CC's Fruits, Veggies & Food 2023

[ducks4you]

Cats will infect you with melatonin, if you don't watch out.
Here is Lynx, from the litter that I brought in from the barn 6 years ago (March) after their feral mother disappeared.
Her 2 sisters, Mynx and Smudgkins (aka, "Bedcat") had a whole day to lap up cat replacement milk. I went to check on the 3 remaining 3 wk old kittens. Lynx was crying, but the other two black kittens were past saving.'
I fed Lynx with a syringe (minus the needle, which you keep around if you own livestock) for her first feeding.
I remind her that I "saved her from Oblivion!" She answers, "Yes, I would have been oblivious!"
I think she imprinted on me bc I am her favorite person.
We had one of those naps a few years back.

 

[Crealcritter]

50 foot row each of broccoli, califlower and brussels, I may have a skip of two but most doubles survived. I thin in the trays to two per cell and set both out. I'll go ahead and pull one this weekend and give them away.

Broccoli

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Califlower

Brussels sprouts

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[heirloomgal]

@Crealcritter do you freeze all your brassica crops?

 

[Crealcritter]

@Crealcritter do you freeze all your brassica crops?

Yes ma'am what we don't eat right off. Cabbage I ferment for sauerkraut and she makes a big batch of cabbage rolls and freezes them meal sized in ziplock baggies we eat throughout the year.

I'll be doing fall cabbages again this year. The old german Brunswick variety makes delicious sauerkraut.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Crealcritter]

Some of the parafilm is starting to fall off our grafted apple trees. It's kind of neat to get a look under the covers and see callousing in its early stages.

Cleft graft

Whip and tongue

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[Crealcritter]

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Crealcritter]

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[Crealcritter]

Received 15 Lovell peach and 10 OHxF97 pear root stocks this morning from Fedco. End of season overstock sale, I couldn't resist the price. Yep all are starting to leaf out. I potted them in 5 gallon pots and watered them in and put in the shade by the house and our black maple tree. I'll have to harden them off slowly over a couple of weeks, no biggie...

Lovell is interesting to me as it used to be the industry canning peach up until fairly recently. Lovell also makes a good hardy vigorous root stock to graft on to. I plan on just planting 3 maybe 4 Lovell peach trees and grafting the others. Also you can grow more Lovell root stocks by planting the pits from a Lovell peaches.

OHxF97 pear root stock is supposed to be a good hardy semi-standard root stock. I plan of ordering pear scion wood this February, as I only have four pear varieties in the mother orchard and want to expand. I was trying to find a Pyrus communis "Red Clapp's Favorite" but they are either not available or way too expensive. Hopefully I can find some scion wood this winter to graft instead.

If I want to start an orchard, I have to learn to graft I find grafting to be something rather amazing.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Crealcritter]

Peach bark and bud grafts, bark on top, bud on bottom still wrapped with parafilm. Huge 3 year old root stock I dug out of the mother orchard this past late winter. 1 year old scion wood from my mother in law's peach trees.

This will probably be me in 10 years (Internet picture - not mine).

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Crealcritter]

Today come and went with what seemed to be the blink of an eye. 3 1/2 hour church Service and non stop after church. I'm ready for bed and I noticed Farmbabe set this on my night stand . I have a big day tomorrow also

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