[Ag-eq] Notes from The BlanchRanch

[Jewel]

I did think of puttoing a couple of sugar fig trees in the gaps between the honey locusts. 
Southland summers are getting warmer, and, in Gore, the winters are, nowhere  near as harsh as those 
you get in the northern states:  frosts are, very rarely, more than 5 degs celsius and we may get 
the occasional snow flurry.  so do you think that they would survive here?
addendum:  I have just spoken to someone in my garden/hardware shop re figs and was told that she 
has a friend who has fig trees that bear masses of fruit and they do very well and do not have to 
have insulated tents over them to enable them to survive the winter.

              Jewel

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From: "Tracy Carcione via Ag-eq" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2018 1:09 AM
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Cc: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Notes from The BlanchRanch

Cool!  Jewel's honey locusts are ready to take off!
Here, it's getting cold.  I put up my greenhouse tent over my fig tree, and
so I'm still getting figs.  They are so tasty!  I also have a tomato in
there.  Don't know if they'll ripen, but they might.
This year, I got lots of tomatoes, beans, and some figs.  All the rest,
mainly greens, got nibbled to death by the critters.  But I love tomatoes
and beans, so it's OK.

I also put in a little meadowlet of native flowers, which did well and was
really nice.  Now to see what makes it through the winter.
Tracy


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Subject: [Ag-eq] Notes from The BlanchRanch

I had to call the plumber in yesterday as one could, rightly say, that it
was not only raining
outside, but inside as well.
He found a sheet of roofing iron that had lost about 3 inches of itself due
to age, so he put a
temporary silicon patch over   the hole and will put up new iron as soon as
the weather allows.
While he was here, I asked him if, back at the workshop, they had a saw
capable of taking the ends
off my two remaining tree barrels, and, as it happened, he had just the saw
in the van, so he did it
straight away.
These honey locust trees have very strange foliage, and I thought that I had
read that they did but
was not sure, so I contacted my sister and asked her to look them up on the
web, but she did not
have to do that as Evan, our  brother, has one growing in his backyard.
They do have a long, thin  leaf and as they are deciduous, are, in autumn,
very messy.
I have them planted on the south-western side of the house so , as in Gore,
the prevailing wind is
from that direction, in autumn,  I will have to keep a close eye on the
spouting!
          Jewel



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