Queen Elizabeth joins climate change fight to plant trees across the Commonwealth as she chuckles with Sir David Attenborough, both age 91, summer, 2017. The Queen's Commonwealth Canopy project
Nancy, the closet is looking good! I think you started the closet about the time I started ripping flooring out of our master bedroom. I am ashamed to say, you have made better progress than me! But I ain't got nothing but time on my hands....not in a big hurry. GA football is just around the corner and I can get more done when I am here by myself and working at night (I'm a bit of a night owl)! By the way, is Beatrice from another place we know?
Hi Pam. This project is just so hard. I keep running into things I didn't count on. And it's been so hot working up there. Then there's the lawn mowing and taking care of the other property, and Rusty. Today I cut down a bunch of little trees and bushes out there that were obstructing the view of the mobile home from the road. It was so hot, I was done for the day. Excuses, excuses,..... LOL!!! Now I got a lot of hedge trimming to do, soon, before it gets out of hand. There is more free time in the winter.
The pears that are falling now taste really good, after a day or two of ripening, but they seem to have stopped dropping. Maybe the deer clear them all out every night. As I mentioned before most are too high to pick. I'm going to try freezing some chunks, without sugar, for the goat, just to see how they turn out. If they end up mushy, he won't like them. ( ) If the freezing works, I'll see if I can cut down one limb every few days. That will also make it not such a big job to cut down in the end. I should do this before fall anyway. No use in raking leaves.
That clip is hilarious, @Beatrice Taylor. Thank you. The same thing happened with my final attempt at growing tomatoes, several years ago. I planted one plant in a big pot. The spring crop fizzled. When the weather cooled off a second crop set on. Trouble is they quit growing and never got to full size, so I picked them just before frost. Just imagine if they had all gotten to normal size!
Has anyone tried picking pears green and ripening them off the tree? That is what is supposed to make the best pears. My daughter's father-in-law had a tree on his place for years the produced what was reported to be "inedible" pears. We told him to pick them green and ripen off the tree. He found the pears delicious when done in this manner. Ripening them off the tree seems to make them sweeter (in contrast to almost every other fruit) and reduces or eliminates the mealyness that some pears develop, making them firmer.
Don, these pears are definitely like that, provided they get beyond a minimum age. They are gritty and hard when the squirrels cut them down. After a couple of days the grit goes away, they soften up and become sweet. I can't figure out what kind they are. The tree is obviously self-pollinating. Btw, why is pollen spelled with an e, but pollinate spelled with an i?