Thanks!
I have never seen walnuts growing on trees before. How long do they last (and are still edible) on the ground like that? I would have thought they had to be picked form the tree itself. Also, don't walnut trees take a long time to grow?
Thanks!
I have never seen walnuts growing on trees before. How long do they last (and are still edible) on the ground like that? I would have thought they had to be picked form the tree itself. Also, don't walnut trees take a long time to grow?
Oh, with luck, they could last a year. But most get attacked right away. What can I do? I was late... All the little critters love them nuts. Some shells were full of ants even before I picked them off the tree. They obviously crawled their way along the branches and all.
I suppose some will still be hanging up there when I get there again...perhaps tomorrow, Friday, or Saturday...but most would have fallen. A gentle breeze was enough to make some of them drop around me while I was picking the rest from the ground.
There's a nice little piece of folklore wisdom that I heard this year. Something like...
But we have recently forgotten such ideas and we use all kinds of pesticides...which I detest. I don't use any.
But without them, I might not be able to grow garlic. There's this new thing I learned about, called the Garlic Fly which lays eggs between the young leaves of the young plant and the larvae go towards the core, eating it from the inside out in February. I was a wise ass last year and I planted the garlic in March but it remained quite small. It's usually done in November around here.
Then again, I guess I shall forgo the idea of large yields of anything and just keep trying out cultures that can grow against all odds and yield a little symbolic something...from time...to time.
Nature is pretty amazing at how it is able to fashion all kinds of interesting mechanisms to keep itself up to date with conditions.
I don't know if @m31 grows garlic, but perhaps she has a tip sans the pesticide :)
Perhaps next year if there are no major projects on the cards, I will get my hands dirty in the soil for realsies :)
I'd say do that but beware of the back problems that might arise. While it felt amazing at times this summer, I got my back and waist aching since my bod was generally unaccustomed to such kind of work.
Planting trees is great. Being stiff as a tree afterwards when you get some muscles blocked...was a first for me and not that great.
Still, I want to do more. Besides, once you start, you need to do more since otherwise your planting "projects" go to waste. It's either them or you, eventually ;)
I dreamed of planting old and ready to be eaten carrots last night, waiting for them to give new carrots somehow. Obviously I am staking my carrots and relying on their APR properties. Ah, the fungible carrots!
I just noticed we're now literally writing carrots and sticks here :)