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Anyone have any uses for old flour. Can it be used to dust plants to smother bugs or will it clog the leaves etc? I have 20 lbs that I hate to just toss.
I grew 4 watermelons this year the size of soccer balls. Never ripened up, just white inside. Out in the orchard The pears did really well so did the apples and plums. Gave away hundreds of pounds to friends and family. I planted full size fruit starting about 40 years ago. If I had it to do over again I would plant dwarf or simi dwarf. Most are just too big to harvest all the fruit. Funny how short our lives are. Make just 1 mistake 40 years ago and its too late to start over. Oh well, I have grandchildren. I planted 2 garlics with every tomato. That does a really good job of keeping the bugs off. I never fertilize garlic. They just taste stronger if they are never coddled. I planted mint last spring. They thrived. My son says to watch out for mint. Its like chives and will take over the world if you let them.
Wow that is inflation! I bought mine 30 years ago for about $10.00 Now I need the pole and a 12 foot ladder and still can't get a quarter of the fruit on the big cherry and pears. Thank you for the information.Draco while semi dwarf and dwarf are a good option they also tend to not live as long so not necessarily a mistake. Have you tried the fruit picker with the telescopic pole . They work pretty good. Mine has a 10 foot pole.
Cost about $50 at Lowes.
Thanks I'll look that us.Old flour is great for growing mushrooms. Just like pizza. If you forget to put mushrooms on when you cook it don't worry, in a few weeks they will appear all by themselves. Ha Ha.
Wow how tall are your trees?Wow that is inflation! I bought mine 30 years ago for about $10.00 Now I need the pole and a 12 foot ladder and still can't get a quarter of the fruit on the big cherry and pears. Thank you for the information.
I put the pallet forks on and lift the wife up on a pallet to trim the Wisteria over the barn doors a couple times a year.We just stick a grandkid in the tractor bucket and raise it up. Picked our pears that way. Painted the pitch of our add on that way.
you can still bake with old flour, just use no salt and a bit more yeast, make small cakes or biscuits and feed the animals.Anyone have any uses for old flour.
It is time to trim the trees back to a PICKABLE height Dracos...before you climb and take the chances of falling...trim them back to a pickable height, cap the middle trunk and paint it white to keep the bugs and rain from getting into the bark and getting the trees sick tho.Now I need the pole and a 12 foot ladder and still can't get a quarter of the fruit on the big cherry and pears.
Gary, I'm talking 8 years expired. Lol. I did a search and I'm going to save to dust plants. When bugs eat it then drink water, they die. I just don't want to kill my bees. I'll have to remember not to dust blooms.you can still bake with old flour, just use no salt and a bit more yeast, make small cakes or biscuits and feed the animals.
You can also surprise the children with paper-machet things like clown heads, volcanos for school or such.
don't forget to mix it with a bit of oatmeal and make fishbait for catching catfish and carp, even if you do not eat the carp you can sell or trade with it.
OK, accepted...either you have tooooo much flour or you bake too slow sister. My flour is used or given away to the poor nearby before it gets bad. I have used many things which were as much a five years old and they were always still good, frozen butter, six years old, peanut butter five years old, ok, cookies and corn oil, three years old, not rancid. Jelly, five years old from when I canned it, still good. Canned apples and plums, six years old and good, pumpkin, four years old and still good. Not everything goes bad just because it is older than the "recommended" use date.Gary, I'm talking 8 years expired
My neighbor moved 8 years ago and I took the flour for mom to make homemade bread. She didn't. I had forgotten about it until I was cleaning the laundry room closet. It was really hidden.OK, accepted...either you have tooooo much flour or you bake too slow sister. My flour is used or given away to the poor nearby before it gets bad. I have used many things which were as much a five years old and they were always still good, frozen butter, six years old, peanut butter five years old, ok, cookies and corn oil, three years old, not rancid. Jelly, five years old from when I canned it, still good. Canned apples and plums, six years old and good, pumpkin, four years old and still good. Not everything goes bad just because it is older than the "recommended" use date.
TOO BAD IT WAS FLOUR AND NOT DOLLARS!!!!I had forgotten about it until I was cleaning the laundry room closet. It was really hidden.
I’ve started picking grapes here and will do cuttings of my favorite vines for potting in the next couple days. I’ve got several days of pruning, some transplanting to thin out the blueberries and then will spray down all the fruit trees. I got behind on taking care of all the plants here when I was working long hours over the last couple years. Hopefully I will have everything in good shape come spring.
I have a copper solution, a neem oil solution and another off the shelf product for fruit trees. Do I know which ones work best? Honestly no. I have always tried to use minimal amounts of any chemicals but the trees have paid for it. The highly productive fruit trees have been bred to produce but aren’t very disease resistant.What do you use for your fall spraying?
Just pulled the last of the red and green tomatos and we are canning tomatos, cabbage, onions, bell peppers and garlic into large glass jars today. Just bottled the half of our moonshine with cranberries, apricots, plums and cherries to get a beautiful color and flavor from the fruits....GaryI went to bring in the tomato pots I have in garden and had to halt because I still have so many green tomatoes.
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