New Fruit Trees
Planted some new fruit trees this week. 2 Moonglow Pears Big, bold, blushed fruit. This beautiful, Bartlett-type pear is soft and juicy but never mushy. The tree is blight-resistant and will bear fruit for years. A strong pollinator for other pear varieties. Ripens in mid August. O Henry Peach large fruit with red-blushed yellow skin; […]
Clearing for the Barn
The selected area just west of the cabin. Started cutting trees, and brush. Used the Kubota with the front loader to clear most of the ground, a bit like a bull dozer, pushing the smaller trees and brush out of the area. The largest of the trees was this hickory tree, actually two trees from […]
What Is It – Answered
Juliana answered it is a Fragrant Sumac. She offered a link to it from the USDA. An excerpt is below: Description General: Sumac family (Anacardiaceae). Straggling to upright native shrubs 0.5-2(-2.5) meters tall (rarely tree-like), forming colonial thickets of up to 10 feet spread, suckering from the roots, the branches slender ascending, puberulent, glabrate, […]
What Is It
Seems there is no end of seeing things around the place and having no idea of what it is. So here is the first “What Is It?” This is a small tree or shrub with an interesting berry. About 6 to 9 feet tall for the one in the photos below. Photo was taken in […]
Boundary Survey
South East Corner 10 Acres: South West Corner 10 Acres: South East Corner 20 Acres: North East Corner 20 Acres South West Corner 20 Acres North West Corner 20 Acres
The Fruit Trees Still Growing
The trees look pretty good. There is evidence of critters eating the leaves – caterpillars specifically. The cherry tree on the south west corner of the prayer garden area is doing pretty well. It is substantially taller than the other tree and now stands a little over six feet tall. Below, is the cherry tree […]
Fishing with Michael
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