Our pond has came almost all the way back up, the ground is soaked and I can see the vegetation already starting to look greener. Since we moved here we have only had one other good rain.
Our fruit trees are doing well, (compare with the picture of the holes in an earlier post). The olive trees are still small but doubled in size since we planted them in the spring. I think we are going to plant an orchard of olives....at maturity they produce about a 4 quarts +/- of olive oil per tree, if you ever bought olive oil you know how much that might be worth.
I only have 8 out of 20 cypress trees left, the drought was hard on them as well as my nut trees. I only have 7 out of 12 pecans and all my walnut died.
Fruit trees ( about 5')
Olive trees ( 2')
Pear tree ( was here already)
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( 2.9 / 135 )I recently got in touch with some old freinds, and thought I should put a few more pics up. so here we go
Tom and shelly at MadDogs on the riverwalk
Grandma Francie and tommy
Nick
Stephanie
more to follow
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( 3 / 125 )WoW,
Its been the hottest summer on record here. I've lost about a 1/4 of my Cyprus and a few pecans. It can only get better from here ( or a least that's what we will tell ourselves.
On the positive side.... my pond is low so I was able to put some pillars in the bottom and built a small dock. (pictures to follow)
its only 12' long and 6' wide, but good enough to get out over the water to feed the fish and fish the fish :)
The kids go back to school next week, the cat had a second small litter, we are down to 4 chickens out of the 35+/- chicks we started with( caught a 5' rat snake with chicks in its belly), the dog is looking nice and fit and we are getting ready to till the garden for the fall planting.
enough for now.
Chikies before the snake....
Kittens from first batch... yin and yang ?
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( 3 / 142 )Ok, we had our first harvest from the garden, we picked a little of each some Okra,Zucchini,Serrano peppers and green beans. We deep fried everything except the beans, which we didn't cook long enough or didn't pick soon enough. everything else is doing OK, we added some miracle grow and some nitrate fertilizer and it seems to help a lot.
late April we bought some small Bass to stock in our pond. we have lots and lots of cat fish and recently I caught a water snake trying to swallow a 7 inch crappie. so now I know there is other fish as well. picture is me and tommy letting the bass free.
We had a down pour a week later and our pond went from half empty to over flowing. when the level gets too high it flows into a slew of sorts and then through a covert pipe to a creek bed. anyways all the water life animals are happy again.
Im also building a tree house, but I'll post about it when Im done.
thats it for now.
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( 2.8 / 83 )been a while since the last entry.... so here's the updates.
The fruit tree's have all came to life and are looking good, a few black speckles on some of the pear leaves, but I think its some sorta of bug. We also planted a couple apple trees ( a Gala and a Red Delicious)
about a 1/3 of the pecans & walnuts have sprouted leaves. I'll leave them all in the ground till summer to see if any more make it.
My cypress trees that I received from the arbor society are all doing well except for a few that I didn't get in the ground soon enough. we had a freeze after I planted them and I thought we lost them but they have all re-sprouted and are starting to get bigger. great deal on tress from them Arbor Day society
My wife and I also visited a Olive orchard were impressed so we bought 20 olive trees of several varieties ( 6 Mission, 6 Pendolio, 8 Arbequina). they'll take about 4 years before they produce except for the Pendolio's that take 7 years.
and lastley for now, the Garden is almost completely planted. we broke down and bought a tiller and it works great. ( we got the rear tine cub cadet from home depot... (used a 10% coupon). We already have lots of sprouts, corn, beans, peas, okra, carrots, radishes, potatoes, strawberry's, asparagus and more.
till next time...
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