snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Nov 12, 2013 15:07:50 GMT -5
Shotgunner posted some pics of his Santa Rosa plums earlier in the year and reminded me of when I had them where I used to live,many years ago.Expanded my garden out and made room for fruit trees and new garden beds.I have our 40 year wedding anniversary coming up,and in the spring,will be my 40th season of gardening.  In my walkways between beds,I fill with leaves and grass clippings.After a couple years,I "mine" it and use it to create rich new beds.We get our first freeze tonight,there will be plenty of leaves bagged up at curbside in town the next month to refill the walkways.Anyway,about a foot of rich compost out of them  The addition and 8 - 8FTX8FT beds.    Someone asked one time about fall and winter gardening in Texas.Got some greens ready to cook. Had to put wire,then wide boards around them,Peter Cottontail and his family really liked my spinach the first 3 times I planted it.  Scott,thanks for getting me on the ball about my fruit trees.  Thanks for looking yall!! snuffy |
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herchenx
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Post by herchenx on Nov 12, 2013 15:30:11 GMT -5
man that is awesome!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2013 16:19:13 GMT -5
haha! I'll take the blame for that one!
Free leaves for mulch, free straw after halloween for the walkways too.
Now you need a couple pair of geese to weed and eat snails.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2013 16:20:00 GMT -5
besides, all this digging gives you new material to tumble!
Congrats on 40 years.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2013 17:23:18 GMT -5
This is what got snuffy all fired up! Ugly---------  Inside is the happiness. Short fibers, custardy, plummy, sweet, drippen' down your chin goodness  The skin does not bely the delectable contents  |
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Post by wireholic on Nov 12, 2013 17:33:36 GMT -5
YUM
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Nov 12, 2013 17:58:27 GMT -5
Yeah,thats what started it! 8-)I will plant one Santa Rosa and one Methley.I think the Methley is my favorite of the two,but both are great.They only last a few years in this area,need to plant a couple more every couple of years.My kids have fond memories of grazing on them waiting for the school bus,and after school.
snuffy
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Nov 12, 2013 18:25:10 GMT -5
them look good. Like a work out Snuffy? wow!
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 12, 2013 20:03:17 GMT -5
Man, that is so cool! It must be so nice to have dirt. I'm so jealous! One of the few things I miss abut our California house was my mature fruit trees. Had plums, apples, cherry plums, citrus, apricots etc. Used to love grazing around the yard in summer. Shoot, we're so rocky here I've got limestone boulders popping up through my lawn. Only way I can even grow flowers here is to bed up and use natives That are adapted to this lousy soil and my only two peach trees are pitiful *L*.....Mel
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2013 20:42:28 GMT -5
Jeeze, Did you have some help? That looks like a pile of work for an old dude like me. It is going to be awesome when finished though.
40 years together is great. I wish you 40 more.
Jim
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Post by Pat on Nov 12, 2013 22:53:32 GMT -5
That's a beautiful garden. Your raised beds are terrific. We have one raised bed 3' square. Also like your pathway/compost arrangement.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Nov 13, 2013 10:43:20 GMT -5
Nice job, snuffy, worked your butt off there. Santa Rosa plums are the BEST (imho)! Those pics Scott posted made me hungry, lol! I love plums... Guess I need to plant a couple trees.
I don't have Mel's rocks, but have this nasty clay ground - not even going to call it "soil." Have a raised bed garden (12' x 22') that has received a lot of amendments and black gold from the compost pile over the last 20 years.
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Post by quartz on Nov 13, 2013 11:33:23 GMT -5
Nice looking garden area, nothing like home-grown eats. Lots of work to build that, but in the long run easier to maintain, and good eye appeal. We built 11 4x8 and 3 4x4 beds, and I dug in a water manifold that goes to each box. It's a bunch more work, but only have to do once. We use all drip irrigation, no longer squirt water into the air.
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