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Post by nvtashak on Aug 21, 2006 23:02:04 GMT -6
Anyone noticing signs of season changes?
Birds have been sampling my peaches and Asian pears and apples, all of which are also getting the first few orange/yellow leaves. (So far they are ignoring the Stanley plum.)
Walking Egyptian onions are walking, or at least bending over with the new bulblets on the ground.
Chickens laying again after the earlier 100's heat.
Lots and lots of chukar quail babies running about and looking for stuff to eat. (Didn't see as many of them this spring as are here now.)
Occasional dragonfly now that nights are cooler (50s/60s).
Guess I'll hurry some of the fall planting even though we still have mid90s in late afternoon.
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Post by douglas on Aug 22, 2006 5:13:03 GMT -6
Yep, portions of the garden is starting to die back some as well, soon the heat will consume our wallets again  |
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Post by crazy1 on Aug 22, 2006 5:16:07 GMT -6
Not if you use alternative heat sources like wood   |
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Post by jeanette on Aug 22, 2006 5:33:42 GMT -6
or corn.. i'm tryin to talk him into putting in a corn burning furnace..we need a new one anyway...
lets see... signs of the changing season.....oh yeah
SCHOOL STARTS TODAY!!!!!!!
the geese are starting to fly, the black birds are starting to flock up..
jerry mounted the bean head on the combine...the seed corn salesmen are comming out of the woodwork.. the nights are getting much cooler.
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Post by douglas on Aug 22, 2006 10:26:56 GMT -6
Can you believe it, schools startin already  |
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Post by jeanette on Aug 22, 2006 18:38:11 GMT -6
Walking Egyptian onions are walking, or at least bending over with the new bulblets on the ground what are these walkin onions??? i must know more... you know i do like the easy livin of summer, but i love it when school is in.. my days are my own then.. i can accually keep my house sort of clean |
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Post by nvtashak on Aug 22, 2006 21:29:44 GMT -6
Jeanette, they don't form underground round bulbs like regular onions; the first part of the stalk is whitish, the leaves green c. 1-3' tall and they form bulblets on top of secondary stalk on top of leaf. (White part, young green part, and bulblets are edible.) Then the leaves curve downward and bulblets are on the ground. (Obviously they need their own space and can take over an area.) Once you have them, they tend to come back year after year on their own--my kind of plant, lol.)
I've heard that there are red walking onions, but mine are white (though the bulblets are reddish brown).
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Post by deb65802 on Sept 5, 2006 18:30:49 GMT -6
Corn stoves are pretty work intensive. and do not work if you have no power. You might want to red more abaouth them before making a decision. They do put out alot of heat and are real pretty to look at and easy to operate.
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Post by tashak3 on Sept 17, 2006 21:41:19 GMT -6
Last two nights have been chilly, low thirties but dry. Some blackened summer squash leaves and melon leaves. Will find out tonight if the newly blossoming eggplants and melons are done in, or if they will survive--we go back up to 40s/80s tomorrow. Chives and emerging fall seedlings (beets, peas, coles, Asian, etc.) are unfazed.
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Post by jack on Sept 17, 2006 23:18:21 GMT -6
Gidday By "Signs of season changes", is this what you mean?  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2006 4:27:55 GMT -6
Really nice pic jack.  |
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Post by trudy on Sept 18, 2006 4:31:52 GMT -6
Thats pretty Jack, thats what it means btw. trudy
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Post by douglas on Sept 18, 2006 5:46:07 GMT -6
Boy here I am wanting to see spring already  |
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Post by chickenfarmer on Sept 18, 2006 7:10:52 GMT -6
Leave it to jack to put us in a diffrent mood... Nice pic Jack
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Post by jack on Sept 18, 2006 14:00:46 GMT -6
Yeah Gidday
Another one down here is the fact the godwits have returned to our harbours from Alaska.
[They migrate in flocks to coastal western Europe, Africa, South Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Stray birds from Europe and Asia occasionally appear on North American coasts. The Bar-tailed Godwit is the holder of the longest non-stop flight known for any bird, 11,000 km from Alaska to New Zealand (BTO News 258: 3, 2005).]
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