Gardening, landscaping and plants in general
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Last weekend harvested sicilian lemons (that is what everyone calls them here) from 3 plants in a friend’s rural cottage. They all went to another buddy who will turn them into limoncello. Those things smell INCREDIBLE while you pluck them off the plant!
You can barely see some of the ripe lemons over the top of the bike’s handlebar
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Mango season round here! Hyper sunny days over this week produces these colorful guys.
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Does anyone know a good method for getting rid of moles? The pesky things are making my life miserable. Every time I come to the cottage, there are at least 40 new molehills. They won't take mouse bait, and I've tried commercial anti-mole scent repellents, but that was a joke. For a while it worked well with Wrigley's Juicy Fruit, but I think they got used to the truly disgusting smell. I'm quite desperate. Looking for a final solution, no mercy.
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After a quick beach trip this past weekend (about a 6½-hour drive each way), we came home to a small tree down in the driveway. Thankfully it didn’t hit the house, it was actually closer than these photos show but I pulled it out of the way so my wife could get her car into the garage.
It took about 10 minutes to cut it up and toss everything into the natural area, either for pickup or to let it rot, I’m not entirely sure which yet.
The point of this post is that it’s probably time to really walk the property and identify the rotted trees and some of the ones that are basically just weeds. I know thinning/cutting down trees isn’t a popular opinion these days, but it’s genuinely better for the health of the surrounding trees and the property as a whole to clean things out before they become a bigger problem.
Edit: oh damn my main point was “fun” to drive hours and then come home and have to cut up a tree, but at least no damage
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said in Gardening, landscaping and plants in general:
@GraemeE said in Gardening, landscaping and plants in general:
@GraemeE said in Gardening, landscaping and plants in general:
Operation "train the grape vines over the pergola" is a go
Hoping for some summer shade
Progress
Successful in gaining shade but it's still hot as fuck this week (at least by Oregon standards)
Things may have gotten slightly out of hand....
Vines latched onto the cottonwood trees in the background a grew around 3/4 of the way to the top
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Some hastily taken pictures of my native (to the California coast) tree orchard. Redwoods, Douglas Fir, and Madrones. Planted them three years ago and they've really been thriving. Just switched my irrigation from bubbler to drip and looking forward to helping that root network grow. Bonus picture of my latest addition - a young giant sequoia. They aren't native to the coast but will do just fine.
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Got 3 plants out of pots and into the ground outside my office this weekend
(From back to front)
Blue spruceHybrid black white japanese pine that i wired for a few years to give some character
Tiny juniper
The goal is to keep these fairly small and pruned with the pine likely getting a root prune and going back into shallow bonsai tray after fattening up for at least a couple more years in the ground
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First female cone on my Wollemi Pine. Had male cones for years. Looking forward to getting some seeds for the first time.
My Giant Redwood is also starting to pack on some size.
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Here's our Wollemi. Never had a cone, did not even consider it a thing - Doh.....Do they need another of the other sex to produce?
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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Wow that’s a cracker! Strange there is no cones yet on it. You get male and female cones on the same tree. Mine is planted on its own.
Here’s a male cone -
The seeds go for crazy money online. They are still pretty rare.
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.
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Actually looking at yours Giles it looks like it has loads of cones on it!
The spikey round balls.
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@1WayTrip said in Gardening, landscaping and plants in general:
Actually looking at yours Giles it looks like it has loads of cones on it!
The spikey round balls.
Yeah, you 100% right, thanks. They start at 12 feet above the ground, so not in my typical line of sight.......Doh...
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@1WayTrip said in Gardening, landscaping and plants in general:
The seeds go for crazy money online.
Another side hustle......
