I checked the car’s radiator for leaks this morning and it looked ok,………….But.
Plum tree transplant
Then I did some chair hopping and eventually got up up and started digging out this little plum tree I had started from a stick here a couple of years ago and it was now time to plant it in a better spot now that it was growing good.
I had to dig a pretty big hole to get it out and I had a little help.
I took the tree over to the new hole I dug last night and I got a load of decayed woodchips to add to the mix and I got a water hose over to the sight to gave the new tree a good water soak once planted.
Helpers
I got the tree planted and then I let the chickens do their thing and clean up any seeds and bugs they could find to eat.
While the chickens where doing their thing I sat in a chair here for a break.
Commotion
I was doing some chair hopping when I heard a commotion near the front gate so I went out to see what was up. The tree trimmer guys were here with a load of freshly cut woodchips and unloading them. I chatted with them a bit.
Weedy strawberry hangers
I’ve noticed a lot of weeds have grown in my strawberry hangers over the winter and I was wondering if I should just leave them and see if the strawberry plants would outgrow them as the strawberry plants grow vigorously once they get going or should I take them out and replant the hangers, removing all the weed plants.
Hangers have worked well
These hanging plant hangers have worked well with the strawberry plants growing in them. The berries grew well in them last year and all I had to to was eat the berries as the there is a water system above them that waters them when the blueberries get watered. I don’t remember having any problem with bugs either. I did remove a lot of small weed plants during the season which were easy as they didn’t have much of a root system like the plants now have.
As you can see some of the weeds are growing well. The strawberry plants are just starting to grow.
Replanting
I found the plants with the dirt pulled out fairly easily so I removed all the plants from this one and separated the berry plants out before replanting the strawberry plants.
I then gave them a good watering and was done with that one.
Little test
I think I’ll do all but one of them that way and leave one to test out what would happen if I didn’t do that. Would the strawberry plants outgrow the weeds eventually.
One more time
I had another look at my repaired radiator and found a small leak as I didn’t put enough silicone on the repair so I drained the fluid and put some more sealer on to cure.
Old lemon tree
I planted a lemon tree in the back when I moved back here about thirty years or so ago. The frost killed the top of the tree and I haven’t had any fruit on it since then.
But this year it appears there are some type of lemons on it. I tried one. They are lemony but they are mostly full of seeds with just a little lemon fruit inside.
The rootstock from the lemon tree may have overgrown the lemon variety that was grafted to the rootstock. From the appearance and your description of the sourness and seediness, it seems likely. Can you get a closeup photo of the leaves, that would help. There are some of these trees at Luther Burbank Gardens in Sebastopol if you want to compare.
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Header Pictures
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
I like the strawberry plants up off the ground for easier picking.
The rootstock from the lemon tree may have overgrown the lemon variety that was grafted to the rootstock. From the appearance and your description of the sourness and seediness, it seems likely. Can you get a closeup photo of the leaves, that would help. There are some of these trees at Luther Burbank Gardens in Sebastopol if you want to compare.