DUCKS for THEE in 2023

[peteyfoozer]

I haven't bought any more seeds! HOORAY!!
I..um..er..DID buy a couple of peach trees and THEN I figured out where they will go.

Order summary​

Clearance - Peach Trees 3-4' $9.99 × 1 Now / Chalmer' Red Skin / 3-4' $9.99​ Clearance - Peach Trees 3-4' $9.99 × 1 Now / Earliegrande Peach / 3-4' $9.99​ Subtotal $19.98​ Shipping $19.17​ Taxes $0.00​ Total $39.15 USD​

They are both for zones 5-9, I live on the borderline for zone 5b and zone 6a.

My Elberta is a unicorn here in 5b. It has produced the most amazing, huge, sweet, juicy peaches every year! The hardest part is keeping large branches from breaking off due to the weight of them, even when thinned heavily!

 

[ducks4you]

HOT DOG!!! Glad to hear!
My "I'm Not gonna give you many peaches" was a ????? from a box store.
Beautiful tree, 15 peaches was the best harvest.
Then, there is my Bartlett Pear, the little tree that Could that almost died from fireblight but I read up and pruned it back and saved it. 50 pears in 2022.
@peteyfoozer, so should I give the older one a couple of years to straighten up and fly right, then cut it down, chip it and sell the chips for charcoal grill smoking?

 

[baymule]

I love my cast iron. I use it almost every day.

 

[peteyfoozer]

HOT DOG!!! Glad to hear!
My "I'm Not gonna give you many peaches was a ????? from a box store,.
Beautiful tree, 15 peaches was the best harvest.
Then, there is my Bartlett Pear, the little tree that Could that almost died from fireblight but I read up and pruned it back and saved it. 50 pears in 2022.
@peteyfoozer, so should I give the older one a couple of years to straighten up and fly right, then cut it down, chip it and sell the chips for charcoal grill smoking?

Idk…my fruit trees in Calif that should have produced a bounty didn’t do squat. Here in the desert, where nothing should grow, stuff reseeds, fruits and flowers like crazy!

 

[ducks4you]

Making chili today for DD and her DH and DGS visiting, so I started beans with a quart of puverlized tomatoes from my stash.
We own a Blendjet and it is SO much easier to clean than the big blender.
I poured in the tomatoes and juice from a jar I canned last Fall. First blend went great. Blendjet specializes in smoothes and did not disappoint.
Then, for the 2nd pint from the quart, it just stopped.
They will do 15 blends on one charge, and I was on #16.
How to charge? How to Charge???
I figured it out.
(OUR Blendjet is the Disney version, which I bought for DH. Can you spot Ilsa?)

 

[peteyfoozer]

Chili and cornbread sounds decadent right about now!!

 

[ducks4you]

Yesterday was cold and windy!!!
Today her sisters are coming over to help with some chores and we are reversing the meals, hamburgers for lunch and chili for dinner. Eldest DD was concerned about eating from jars that I just canned yesterday afternoon.
I said.................................."Why Not?!?"
3 pints are in cupboard for DH to take for at home lunches.
and, Yes the cornbread was really good

 

[ducks4you]

My tomato forest on top of the fridge has 6 heirloom varieties started. Most of 72 cells have multiple sprouts.
It has 12 rows, 7 deep.
I planted in order to earliest to harvest to latest to harvest.
1st 3 rows are
Moskvich, 60 days to maturity
Next 2 rows are
Indigo Apple Tomato, 70 days to maturity

Next 2 rows are
Prudens Purple Tomato, 72 days to maturity
Next 2 rows are
Damsel F1 (I think it's a hybrid), 73 days to maturity

Next 2 rows are Rutgers, which I have grown before but never started from seed, 75 days to maturity
Next SINGLE Row is Rose de Berne, , 75 days to maturity
Last 2 rows are
Copia Tomato, 85 days to maturity
I have grown a tomato before that looks like a Copia, not sure what it was called, but I liked the taste.

 

[ducks4you]

I am not using markers. I think when they set mature fruit I will know what I have.
I think I up potted Indigo Apple and Rutgers for DD. Don't think she cares which she will be growing.
She got them home safe and sound and under a gro light with some herbs and by a window.

 

[baymule]

Oh tomatoes! What lovely varieties, I know they will be delicious!