Are you projecting to get millions of peaches?Last year, late freeze resulted in no peaches on our 2 trees. This year, I think we've got both this year's and last years. I've spent a solid two hours thinning them out and still have some to do. Research says you need to get them down to 6"-8" apart so 80% of them have had to be removed.
It's hard to get used to ripping tiny peaches off the tree when what you want is a lot of peaches, but we're still going to get plenty.
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And will they be in a can?
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And will they be free?
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After 3 years my peonies are finally blooming
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Nice. I have peonies envy!
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We put in a ton of plants this year as we actually were settled in for planting season. I can’t wait to have flowers everywhere and peppers coming out of our ears. Oh, and fresh herbs. Can’t wait to use some fresh herbs right from the garden again.
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Why are wildflower seeds so damn expensive?
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Tom petty
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Harvested eight chickens today, I dispatched and defeathered, my youngest daughter cleaned. Went pretty well. Have eleven more to do tomorrow.
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Very nice
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Mulched a hillside with about 1.5 cubic yards of mulch this weekend. Looking forward to gravity winning the battle watching all fo that time/money slowly creep down the hillside
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The best part of mulching. Knowing you'll have to do it again within two years.
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Outsourcing grass cutting and mulching this year was the best decision
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I usually don't have this thought until late summer when it's 95 and muggy, but last week I was there.Outsourcing grass cutting and mulching this year was the best decision
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All the vegetables I transplanted into the garden last week have wilted and died. Second time this has happened after applying mushroom compost to the garden. Let that be a lesson to you kids out there
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This happened to my brother in law too, which is odd because all of his seedlings came from me and mine immediately flourished.
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Turns out our local pool decided to close this summer for updates. I've never been as we just moved into the house last May, and obviously we weren't going with COVID. We bought a little plastic pool for my daughter last summer and she enjoyed it (she was 2 last summer). Now that she's a little bigger, I wanted something that I could get in and splash around with her, but I didn't want to get a full pool...
Inflatable pool it is! Ordered it on Amazon today after searching all across town to buy one locally and they're just not stocked anywhere. Now we wait.
I remember summers playing in a similar inflatable pool and had a ton of fun. It was me and my brother (and then our younger two sisters). I don't recall my parents ever getting involved in the fun, but you can bet I plan to play in there with my daughter all summer long.
Inflatable pool it is! Ordered it on Amazon today after searching all across town to buy one locally and they're just not stocked anywhere. Now we wait.
I remember summers playing in a similar inflatable pool and had a ton of fun. It was me and my brother (and then our younger two sisters). I don't recall my parents ever getting involved in the fun, but you can bet I plan to play in there with my daughter all summer long.
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Add $25 for a replacement solenoid. At least I could install it myself. Blah.I posted a meme ITT or elsewhere about how we spend money to torture ourselves with perfect lawns (and ruin the environment etc.)
As my irrigation system controller unit died yesterday, in the middle of a sustained drought and heat wave, I decided to look into what I've spent on that lawn.
We had a well put in, a 4 zone irrigation system installed, and sod laid in 2007 for $12000 or so.
The well died five years ago and had to have it rebuilt/redug for another $2500.
A valve was damaged and the pump system developed a leak last fall, for another $250.
I replace 3-6 sprinkler heads a season for $12 a pop.
$40-60 a year in fertilizer and herbicides.
I cut my own lawn until 2016 or so. Just got too busy; so I pay a guy $50 every other week from April - October to cut the lawn, edge the beds, etc.
I need to rent a vertical mower and thatch it, but that's not going to happen.
**** adds up just to keep up with the neighbors.
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I need to mow my lawn before vacation, and the options are do it in 90+° heat, or in the rain. wtf
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Yeah I just chalked it up to I'll be mowing next Monday when we get back from our camping trip.
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I was going to call a lawn service that does a neighbor's house, but figured they'd need to stop by before then for an estimate, and I waited too long. May just wait until like 7pm tonight and give it a go. I can't go 2+ weeks without the lawn being mowed.
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Just suck it up and mow in the heat haha. I mowed our lawn and my in-laws on Sunday and got out early enough that I was done before like 10:30am when it really started getting super hot.
I love mowing though even in the heat and humidity.
I love mowing though even in the heat and humidity.
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You are an insane person. I can take the heat, but the humidity just makes me want to give up and sit in a freezer.Source of the post I love mowing though even in the heat and humidity.
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I hate humidity in general, but something about mowing the lawn just calms me even when it's super humid outside.You are an insane person. I can take the heat, but the humidity just makes me want to give up and sit in a freezer.Source of the post I love mowing though even in the heat and humidity.
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Must have a riding mower?
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