A Yard Full

   I don’t know if you can see the ice on the trees, but we definitely have ice here in TX today………..   I’m very glad that I’m not out driving in this stuff, cause it will get very dangerous on these roads, especially when the night begins and it gets dark………     I knew that my house wasn’t staying warm like I expected……….now, I realize why………..”there’s ice on them there trees”………..  

You don’t see many of them these days, and I sure it’s because of the mess the birds make on your cars, when sitting under Mulberry trees. The fruit is sweet and great for sauces but, you must pick them before the birds get to them. There is always a bumper crop, and the size of the fruit(finger nail) makes it hard to get ample for much cooking. So, I guess since my Apricot tree didn’t make it this summer I’ll have to shop for your next year’s tree planting.

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Yum Yum……guacamole salad….I love it……

As a houseplant

Avocado tree trained as a houseplant

Avocado can be grown as a houseplant from seed. It can germinate in normal soil in a large pot or by suspending a washed pit (generally using toothpicks embedded in the sides) pointed-side up and filling the glass until the bottom quarter of the pit is covered. The pit will crack as it absorbs water and germinates, and should sprout in 4–6 weeks. When the roots and stem emerge from the seed, it can be planted in soil. The young tree is amenable to pruning and training but will not normally bear fruit indoors without sufficient sunlight and a second plant to cross-pollinate.

An avocado is a fruit and not a vegetable! It is actually a member of the berry family.
At the time of the Spanish conquest, avocados were grown from northern Mexico south through Central America into north-western South America and south in the Andean region as far as Peru (where the avocado had been introduced shortly before the conquest), as well as into the Andean region of Venezuela.

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This bush has been here for several years………when I moved in this house 4 years ago the person, who was keeping the yard, had it cut down very low …..almost to the ground……..I let it grow and it has beautiful blooms in the spring but they fall of and I never have any fruit? I wonder if it could be a fruitless, bush?

Either way it was getting too big and not making fruit, so I cut it back so it wouldn’t crowd out the other plants with it.

The sky is teasing me… If I think it’s going to rain, I’ve got another think coming.. It does this every few days. The surrounding areas here where I live, get the much needed rain, in fact they get too much. I must not be living right, it will rain, everywhere else, and bypass my dry dying lawn.

My poor vegetable garden has burn up and I didn’t get very many nice veggies, because of the drought in our area. The heat has almost killed everything, and I only water when I have to.

The breeze is getting cooler, so someone is getting rain……..just not me!

The cabbage heads are forming and looking great……. It won’t be long until I’ll enjoy the slaw or steamed cabbage.

The yellow squash, is blooming and so are the calabasita’s.

I have nice big green tomatoes and many more small one’s, plus they’re still blooming……….

This is a small peach tree, that we planted last year, but it’s still to young to make anything………it’s really grown this year, so maybe next spring it will have some flowers……..and if I’m lucky……a peach or two………

TREES

By Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall

never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry

mouth is pressed

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at

God all day

And lifts her leafy

arms to pray;

A tree that may in

summer wear

A nest of robins

in her hair;

Upon whose bosom

snow has lain;

Who intimately

lives with rain.

Poems are made by

fools like me,

But only God can

make a tree.

I memorized this poem back in grade school, so I wanted to share it with you and there may be some of you out there that remember it too.

Since I last showed you pictures of the fruit trees, I had planted this one has flowered and is growing peaches. I hope they stay on the tree, as I’ve found that some have already fallen off, for whatever reason. The rains have really helped everything to take off growing.

As for my apricot tree, it looks like another year of growth and establishing itself in the ground, will have to take place before it will bloom and have fruit. It didn’t bloom this year at all.

This was last Sunday, when we stopped by a local city park in Dallas, and if you look real close you can see the black duck with 2 small yellow babys. We went around to the other side of this island and found that this duck wasn’t the mother. The mother was still sitting on the nest behind the big rock on the bottom right, hatching more babies.
This was the fountain that was out in the center of the pond/lake.
As you can see this is a plum tree in full bloom. Fitting place for a plum tree, it will no doubt give the birds some fruit later. If you look, behind it is another plum tree, only a little smaller.
I found two “dogwood trees” about to burst open with these huge buds.
This is the spillway, for the overflow, people trusted it not to overflow on them. So, I guess we had a nice stroll, while I took pictures. Spring is bursting out all over.