I finally trimmed heavily, and stuck the sticks into some dirt in pots. I've got them all in the greenhouse. Lets see if they root!
I've not done anything with the tubers yet.
I'm not buying new seeds this year. I'm going to clean up my old ones. I have A LOT!! Plus I worry about water. This January has been the driest one since 2011. Not good.
Last night was four jars of 2021 home canned food.
1. quart of ham and veggie soup
2. pint of lentil soup
3. pint of diced tomatoes
4. pint of cooked pork.
Mixed all together, simmered for a while, adjusted spices, and served with plain bagels with cheese on top.
YUMMY!!!
I have two plum trees and a nectarine. They were from Stark's and are only four years old. I'm to hold off on trimming them until just before spring. We might get a sprinkling of our first snow this coming week, and spring is quite a ways off.
The two figs won't be trimmed as they are tiny...
I watched three vids of how to prune apple trees. The best one was from UC Santa Cruz. So I went at it. Got five of them done, and then hubs got the very tall water sprouts cut more than half way down.
The UC Santa Cruz teacher said that if you trim those leaf bud branches (diff from fruit...
I volunteered yesterday at an annual seed swap. I actually sat at the Food Bank table, but was able to browse the tables and tables of seeds.
Two companies mail their out of date seeds (packed for '24) to the group that organizes this. A larger company declined this year, for the first time in...
Columbia is the third largest exporter of coffee.
1
Brazil
44,200,000
2,652,000
5,714,381,000 lbs
2
Vietnam
27,500,000
1,650,000
3,637,627,000
3
Colombia
13,500,000
810,000
1,785,744,000
4
Indonesia
11,000,000
660,000
1,455,050,000
5
Honduras
9,600,000
580,000
1,278,681,000