What's everybody doing today?

[Spikedriver]

Yep....

What is brown rot? Brown rot is a destructive fungal disease of trees and shrubs in the genus Prunus which includes peaches, plum, cherries, apricots and nectarines.

https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/brown-rot/

(apples and pears are also Prunus genus)

So, what can you do about it? Many years it's close to 100% infested...I'd rather not spray.

 

[timmie]

got a whole pork loin for 1.19 a pound today

 

[Peanut]

So, what can you do about it? Many years it's close to 100% infested...I'd rather not spray.

Being so closely related to rose bushes, apples and pears can have a second problem…

If the fungus is just on the fruit its brown rot. You need “Captan 50 wetable powder” a fungicide.

If it’s on the fruit and about 5 inches of limb just before the fruit… it’s fireblight… another nasty fungus and much harder to control…

Check your local extension office for the latest and greatest…edit

each state individually regulates what chemicals can be used on what fruit... something legal here may not be legal in Kansas...

That's why you have to go the local extension office. They will have all that info...

 

[backlash]

got a whole pork loin for 1.19 a pound today

I would be firing up the pellet smoker and make pulled pork.
Might have to get me a pork butt tomorrow.

 

[lonewolf]

waiting for the storm to arrive.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Today we started off the day with me stain removing some clothing, putting on a load of washing and hanging it on the clothes line to dry. I then deep cleaned the bathrooms and toilets and set off the grey water from the tank to water the mulberry tree in the paddock and watered the potted fruit trees and herbs (not using the term pot plants anymore @Amish Heart because of the other hallucinogenic plants ) .

DH while I was doing that did the weekly newsletter for church and sent it and organised some printing for the RSL club.

This afternoon we went to the RSL club for our weekly date day and I deep cleaned all the toilets there, mopped the floors and DH and I set up 100 plates and napkins for an upcoming event there. DH then set up the fire to warm the home up as we are expecting a polar blast that may bring frosts or snow not sure which yet.

Tonight's dinner was homemade pizza.

 

[Amish Heart]

Ha Ha Sewing. Wouldn't want to think you've taken up a new hobby.
Will be going to the school for more cleaning...mopdown and scrubbing. The Culligan man is coming by to pick up their tank, and the people who are putting a second offer on the school are coming by again for another truckload of stuff they're buying pre yard sale. The man bought the play kitchens and a T rex model yesterday. Glad it's Friday, but tomorrow will be an early morning with the yard sale. Need to do some grocery shopping after cleaning today, and need to make a couple of pies for an American Heritage Girls family picnic/dinner tomorrow evening after the yard sale. Little Granddaughter has been a trooper in all this. The poor thing has been so indoctrinated, though, coming from California...having a nutso mom, going to a therapist, and living in foster care. She speaks like an adult at 7 yrs old, but we've had interesting conversations. Like, there is no God, people were made of Stardust. There are many genders to pick from. Yesterday we had to go to the High School for registration for her brother and sis. I told her that they were going to be freshmen. She said that I couldn't say that. I could say "freshgirl", but not freshmen. No amount of arguing with her changed her mind. So I asked if we were all "human", and of course she said we were, but we are not "hugirl".

 

[GrannyG]

Visited over the fence with my neighbor. She is such a wonderful person...saves dogs, cats, has them neutered, gives to the community...she has a large rescue dog which we love, I sometimes talk to him across the road...had not seen him out so checked with her...seems he has a bad habit..eating cacidas...he loves to eat them as they try to crawl up the trees in the yard...soooooooooo…..he has diarrhea so bad, kaopectate is not even helping and he is not allowed near the trees...LOL...hopefully, he will recover quickly. Seems like Puggers at the Library had the same problem, they could not figure out what happened to the Beta fish they just bought...well, it seems it jumped out of the bowl and Puggers took care of matters and paid the price...LOL...Oh my...

 

[Meerkat]

Diving back into the rabbit hole.
Dealing with the heat outside is not even possible at 7am. May not have Fall garden this year.

 

[Meerkat]

I don't even know if food grade corn can have all those chemicals put on it in the first place. Nobody in my area grows food corn any more. We tried food grade beans about 20 years ago and lost our ass on them. Pretty much everything in my part of the world goes to making animal feed or renewable fuel. So, you're not consuming any Roundup treated food from my part of the world...

Spike I know and its the same thing around here mostly. Bio furl and feed. We do have lots of cattle and chicken farms.
Stock yards and slaughter houses too. Americas lust for meat several times a day is polluting not only our environment but also our bodies. We are the sickest first world nation on earth.
I'm no tree hugging hippie fool but I do think we need limits to protect us.
Red Tide my hide, its brown feces and chemicals that is poisoning our waters. Plus large crops fro bio fuel and sugar killing our Everglades, estaries , sea life and beaches.

 

[Meerkat]

Idk either. Our fields we grow are turned into seed for farmers to buy.

I think most of the stuff that is grown around here goes to ADM but I still see sprayers and crop dusters all the time spraying fields.

Now the sweet corn patch we grow at work gets no chemicals sprayed on it.

Gunner that is good news.

 

[Meerkat]

Yep....

What is brown rot? Brown rot is a destructive fungal disease of trees and shrubs in the genus Prunus which includes peaches, plum, cherries, apricots and nectarines.

https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/brown-rot/

(apples and pears are also Prunus genus)

Peanut in past couple years our figs don't ripen. Checked soil and the tree looks beautiful no sign of disease and full of unripened figs.

 

[Spikedriver]

Peanut in past couple years our figs don't ripen. Checked soil and the tree looks beautiful no sign of disease and full of unripened figs.

I know nothing about figs, but...that seems awfully weird. Not enough/too much moisture? Too hot/too cold?

 

[Meerkat]

I know nothing about figs, but...that seems awfully weird. Not enough/too much moisture? Too hot/too cold?

Not sure but I hear it is not just mine. Others seem to have same problem.

Got WalMart 2 pair of men's tennis shoes in mail today VERY fast just ordered them yesterday.$ 10 a pair and they are comfy.

Also got a pair of meat cutting steel gloves today we ordered yesterday to cut meat and veggies or using slicer [ that I forgot name of]. No sense in taking a risk of getting cut ' again '.
Also I'd strongly advise all especially us older people to use one.

 

[Peanut]

We get some type of fungus or blight on our pears

Peanut in past couple years our figs don't ripen. Checked soil and the tree looks beautiful no sign of disease and full of unripened figs.

I’m sorry but you didn’t give me enough specific information. What the fruit look like before they dropped… (at some point the figs did drop from the trees). What did they look like after they dropped, any cracks, molds? There would have been a change in appearance after they dropped.

You said it happened to others… What were the specific weather conditions? Temp, humidity, rain fall amounts? Figs are sensitive to humidity.

What did the county extension office say? They would have the info if the crop were failing over a wide area.

I need specific info like Spike gave me "fungus or blight on our pears" to help you.

 

[Meerkat]

I’m sorry but you didn’t give me enough specific information. What the fruit look like before they dropped… (at some point the figs did drop from the trees). What did they look like after they dropped, any cracks, molds? There would have been a change in appearance after they dropped.

You said it happened to others… What were the specific weather conditions? Temp, humidity, rain fall amounts? Figs are sensitive to humidity.

What did the county extension office say? They would have the info if the crop were failing over a wide area.

I need specific info like Spike gave me "fungus or blight on our pears" to help you.

They look great a pretty green un-ripined fruit. Also they don't fall off. I have a few hundred fruit on that one tree and have only got about 6 ripe ones off it in past several months.
I made 4 big fig pies off it about 4 years ago ,very good pies. It is a Turkey Fig.

 

[Spikedriver]

They look great a pretty green un-ripined fruit. Also they don't fall off. I have a few hundred fruit on that one tree and have only got about 6 ripe ones off it in past several months.
I made 4 big fig pies off it about 4 years ago ,very good pies. It is a Turkey Fig.

I just googled "figs not ripening". The main reason it gave was lack of water. The tree uses the available water to survive and the fruit gets none. Not sure if that is your situation at all. Have you been in a drought?

 

[Spikedriver]

@Peanut I don't know why I never tried googling the pear fungus, but I just looked it up. From the images it appears that what we have at the farm is "apple scab" which is a little bit different from brown rot. I got a whole bunch of info on things to try to control it. Mainly, take up all the leaves around the tree before winter comes, haul them away, and burn them. The fungus winters in the dead leaves.

 

[Peanut]

Fruit trees as a group and individually are afflicted by a host of nasties... I always start with the most common and work my was down the list...

Keep an eye out for fire blight, it can take out 100 trees in a matter of days, especially if its windy. It's been really bad in the SE the last few years...

With pears and apples don't hesitate to look at things that afflict rose bushes. Roses are the grandpa of apples and pears genetically speaking... More like the great, great grandpa of peaches, apricots etc.

 

[Supervisor42]

Peanut in past couple years our figs don't ripen. Checked soil and the tree looks beautiful no sign of disease and full of unripened figs.

I have some experience with that. When we lived in 'bama the Mrs had a huge fig tree that did the same thing for years.
The figs would grow, but never ripen.
I called them "touch-me-not" figs. It was right under the roofline so I know it had abundant water:

There must be some trace mineral that they must have. I decided to "shotgun it" (TF pun) and we pounded green fertilizer stakes into the ground around the bottom if it.
(no, I don't remember which kind, I'm a guy)
The next year, and from then on, we had our hands full (pun) staying on top of picking them before they split. (plenty of water will do that)

We gave figs to neighbors until I could see them run and hide every time I showed up.

 

[snappy1]

Took DH to doc about 40 miles away this morning. Found that he doesn't have essential tremors, it is a genetic thing. No cure but at least doc is changing meds to maybe help a little.

Went to thrift shop and scored big with lots of stuff for eBay! Then went to Save a lot ( hadn't been in one in about 15 years). I was not impressed! Walmart prices and higher than what I get at local grocery sales! Won't go there again.

Home and resting for the afternoon.

 

[Peanut]

I have never seen “touch me not figs”. Every 3 to 4 years I bring in couple hundred pounds of cow/horse manure and 25 or 30 gallons of ash from burned tree limbs.

The reason I do this is that’s what my grandfather did. He once told me our figs were growing when he first came to the farm as a child around 1905/06. His much older SIL had a photo showing the figs were there in the early 1880’s. I saw the photo when she was still alive.

The only 2 things I’ve ever seen hurt a fig crop is drought and too much rain with super high humidity. Really high humidity will cause the figs to mold as they ripen. A drought will cause the trees to drop the figs while still green.

 

[Meerkat]

Took DH to doc about 40 miles away this morning. Found that he doesn't have essential tremors, it is a genetic thing. No cure but at least doc is changing meds to maybe help a little.

Went to thrift shop and scored big with lots of stuff for eBay! Then went to Save a lot ( hadn't been in one in about 15 years). I was not impressed! Walmart prices and higher than what I get at local grocery sales! Won't go there again.

Home and resting for the afternoon.

Snap I hope the new meds work .

 

[Meerkat]

I have never seen “touch me not figs”. Every 3 to 4 years I bring in couple hundred pounds of cow/horse manure and 25 or 30 gallons of ash from burned tree limbs.

The reason I do this is that’s what my grandfather did. He once told me our figs were growing when he first came to the farm as a child around 1905/06. His much older SIL had a photo showing the figs were there in the early 1880’s. I saw the photo when she was still alive.

The only 2 things I’ve ever seen hurt a fig crop is drought and too much rain with super high humidity. Really high humidity will cause the figs to mold as they ripen. A drought will cause the trees to drop the figs while still green.

Will try the ash and chicken manure. Very little chicken manure of course. Peanut

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Crocheting finished another lap robe.
Already started on another one.
Kicked back and relaxing mostly.
Grand daughter was super cranky yesterday.
By time she was picked up, even this tough old Granny wanted to cry.
But in fairness to her, she's cutting in all 4 back molars at once.
Yesterday grand daughter, Strawberry and I started digging into new flower bed.
Trying to get things ready for Spring.
I think this year beings I'm at new place, maybe native flowers, grasses, butterfly and hummingbird garden.
I'm thinking we might be able to do Fairy Garden in there somewhere too.
Got more than a few bulbs to divided and rearranged, so will use mostly what is here.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Started off the morning with DH stain removing some clothing, putting on a load of washing and hanging it on the clothesline to dry. We then did an inventory of the food storage room now it is organised so we know what to stock up next on when we see specials.

DH just vacuumed part of the house and swept upstairs and watered the potted fruit and herb plants.

Tonight's dinner is the other half of our homemade pizza and tinned fruit for dessert.

 

[timmie]

today it's apples

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Are you preserving apples @timmie, canning or dehydrating ?.

 

[Amish Heart]

School yard sale and afterwards we'll be going to the American Heritage Girls water gun party and barbeque dinner at the park

 

[Meerkat]

Looking for Heirloom seeds, cut off about a foot of hair this morning, too much to work with takes forever to wash it. Now it is short and easy to do.
It is still steamy and hot so not much to do outside. Will get up extra early in the AM and do it before daybreak.