Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[drstratton]

This spring is all over the place. Less than two weeks ago we had frost and this afternoon, we ate our first peaches.

We got all of the 18 sweet peppers planted and another couple of tomato plants and some basil. The only starts we have left are some Spaghetti, Delicata, and Butternut Squash. We planted a lot of radishes around our tomato plants since they will be ready to eat before the tomatoes get a lot of size to them.

We usually plant a couple of hot peppers but we checked our canned goods the other day and we still have 4 quarts of Jalapenas left from last season.

You have ripe peaches already...that's amazing! Cherries come first here. They should start picking around the first part of June, then apricots, peaches nectarines around the 4th of July. Then apples and pears at the end of the summer into the Fall, sometimes apples are still being picked after the first snowfall. I grew up a migrant worker, we followed the crops from CA all the way to Florida. I remember my parents picking apples in the snow in Missouri!

 

[Mike CHS]

These peaches are what most of the orchards took out since they are so early they rarely got a harvest and are on the small side. Our large peaches are still 2-3 weeks away. We have a couple of dwarf cherries that is probably 3 weeks or so before they start turning.

 

[Mike CHS]

The ribs turned out good. We had some for supper with potato salad, gave some to the neighbors and vacuum sealed the rest for 11 more meals.

 

[drstratton]

These peaches are what most of the orchards took out since they are so early they rarely got a harvest and are on the small side. Our large peaches are still 2-3 weeks away. We have a couple of dwarf cherries that is probably 3 weeks or so before they start turning.

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We have fruit trees in our yard, but sadly we won't have a crop this year, the spring frosts took them out...maybe next year!

 

[Mike CHS]

I can't remember if I posted about a problem on one of our fruit trees or not. I know I did on Facebook because that's where I got an answer to what was going on. I went back several pages on BYH so if I'm repeating myself I will credit that to getting old.

One of our fruit trees have (had) what we assumed was some sort of fungus but wasn't sure. I posted pictures on Facebook and our Extension Agent replied that it was a fungus called Black Knot. It also has another common name but I won't post that. The remedy is a real pain getting rid of the fungus so we took the easy way out and completely dismembered the tree this afternoon and left about 4' of trunk left that I hope will be enough leverage to push it over with the tractor.

I'm just posting to help others possibly as it is hard to get rid of which is why I decided to take the tree out.

This one tree was the only one in our orchard that had the problem and the "cure" is more than I wanted to deal with. This tree was a cherry tree that we planted 5 years ago and had not bore any fruit.

 

[Baymule]

Those are some pretty peaches! They look good enough to eat! Our peach trees have some little green peaches on them, I hope they make it to ripeness.

That is ugly looking stuff that your tree had. Haha, cull chickens, cull sheep and ya' gotta cull the durned tree too.

 

[drstratton]

I can't remember if I posted about a problem on one of our fruit trees or not. I know I did on Facebook because that's where I got an answer to what was going on. I went back several pages on BYH so if I'm repeating myself I will credit that to getting old.

One of our fruit trees have (had) what we assumed was some sort of fungus but wasn't sure. I posted pictures on Facebook and our Extension Agent replied that it was a fungus called Black Knot. It also has another common name but I won't post that. The remedy is a real pain getting rid of the fungus so we took the easy way out and completely dismembered the tree this afternoon and left about 4' of trunk left that I hope will be enough leverage to push it over with the tractor.

I'm just posting to help others possibly as it is hard to get rid of which is why I decided to take the tree out.

This one tree was the only one in our orchard that had the problem and the "cure" is more than I wanted to deal with. This tree was a cherry tree that we planted 5 years ago and had not bore any fruit.


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Wow, I've never seen that. I'm going to ask my oldest son if they have ever had to deal with it. He works for 2 different orchard companies. He's in charge of the spraying & all of the organic & global gap certifications among many other things!

 

[Mike CHS]

Wow, I've never seen that. I'm going to ask my oldest son if they have ever had to deal with it. He works for 2 different orchard companies. He's in charge of the spraying & all of the organic & global gap certifications among many other things!

We have a few wild plum trees on our place that I checked to see if they were infected but they weren't. I'm going to take them down anyway since they don't have any use for us.

 

[Baymule]

We pick wild plums, little cherry sized tart red plums. They make the best jam! We pick on George's fence, he's an old bachelor living in a house that his grandfather built, on 150 acres. I always give him plum jam and he loves it. When the county was cutting back the growth on the sides of the road, George hung surveyors tape on his tree and told the county workers not to cut his tree!. They didn't. This year, no wild plums, late frost got 'em.

 

[thistlebloom]

There are Canada cherry trees growing wild right next door to my big job. There are in a unmaintained section of the neighbors property, but unfortunately right next to my clients outdoor hot tub. They are infected with what looks like that same fungus. The arborist I use called it cat (poo) on a stick.