Re: Spring Sprang Sprung

maxine in ri said:

Ok, Mother Earth forgives you for cutting down one tree since you left
the condo for the birds<g>. Time to purchase another pecan tree and
plant it further from the foundation. Someone will thank you years
from now.

We have six other pecan trees in our yard. What I'd really like to
plant is an olive tree, but the Texas olive producer I checked with
says you need really well drained soil. Even though we're very dry
here with the continuing drought, its been fairly rainy this spring
and the black gumbo soil drains hardly at all. Very dense clay-like
stuff. Bodes ill for olives.

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D had found some organic skinless, boneless chicken breasts in the
used meat section of the meat counter for dinner, so this is what I

used meat? Do you mean meat that the chicken used for a while, as
opposed to the unborn eggs that people periodically rave about? Or
were they pre-digested by some critter who raided the henhouse?;-)

"Used meat" is our slang for meat that's been marked down for quick
sale. The organic chicken in our local market is a bit too expensive,
so it typically gets reduced near the sell-by date. That's how I get
most of my lamb, too.

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OT, but do you hand pollinate the day lillies, or let the bees diddle
the pistels?

Bees will diddle as they will, but I pull stamens and stroke pistils
with them. My friend, the daylily maven, told me once that
hemerocallis genetics are so complicated that Mendel would have given
up had he selected them for his genetic studies. I've crossed a
bright yellow spider-type with a frilly cantaloupe-colored plant. When
I planted the seeds, I got blooms less than half the size of either
parent and a dusty gray blue in color. Unpleasant surprise.
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