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  1. Falena

    Falena Cherry Bomb Staff Member Past Donor

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    I keep checking my fig trees to see if they survived the winter. We have dragged them in every winter but it finally got to be too much trouble. Also, they break too early and drop figs and the second set of figs most times don't ripen fully.
    So two winters ago I decided thats it. We left them in the pots outside in the woods and covered the pots with leaves. Of course we got more figs than I knew what to do with and I made fig jam.
    This past fall we planted them and wrapped them in burlap. Packed them with leaves, tarped and vented them. We uncovered them about 2 weeks,ago and they look deader than Elvis after his last bowel movement.*

    *Lol a completely unnecessary comment about Elvis.

    Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Three weeks ago I bought Mason jars to make fig jam. Im really hoping they survived. I know they can die back down to the ground and come back but the figs will set too late and not ripen.

     
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    Falena Cherry Bomb Staff Member Past Donor

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    I've been working on this pysanky egg. The black lines are already done in bees wax.
    The lines are not perfectly measured. I did it freehand pretty much because math isn't my thing lol.
    20210329_130742.jpg
     
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    Looks great, Falena. :beer:

    EDIT: I had to look Pysanky egg up. Looks like the same process as batik except it's on eggs.
     
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    Falena Cherry Bomb Staff Member Past Donor

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    I've never batiked anything but yeah its basically the same process. You put beeswax on the colors you want to remain. So the first color, where the beeswax is now on the egg will stay white. The second color will be yellow then scarlet, etc. The parts I want to remain yellow I will cover in the wax. I made one years ago but its at the other house right now. The coolest part is removing the wax at the end and seeing all the colors.
    I've been watching some videos and the professional pysanky makers do some absolutely stunning artwork on the eggs.
    Next year Im going to do a natural dye type egg that you put leaves on the egg and then wrap the egg in gauze. Then dip it in onion skin dye which makes it a brownish yellow color and then in beet dye to make it red. I need to read up on it more. I think they etch into the egg also.
     
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    I know I've posted this before but...
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    It just gets me every time.
     
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    Falena Cherry Bomb Staff Member Past Donor

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    Mary, come and get your little lambs.
    Easters right around the corner and I got a bunch of lemons and garlic.
     
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    That is amazing work....
     
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    20210331_143644.jpg This is my big fig. About 8 or 9 foot tall. My figs look good so far but I have lost several. But that may be from bad soil as much as frost. It is gonna get frosty again soon.. Will wait and see.
     
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    Thanks.
    Im enjoying doing it. I see so many mistakes though. The more I do hopefully the better I will get. I think when I buy the stand for it, I'm going to buy different sized Kistky tools. I bought a kit that came with dye, beeswax and one medium tool. The tool is basically a dowl with a copper funnel attached with copper wire. I like the tool, but I think different size funnels may help. I set the tool on fire twice already lol.
    All I can say is.... I try.
     
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    It looks so good!
    What kind of fig is it? I have or maybe had a Brown Turkey and a Celeste. I also had a white fig a few years back but it died. The figs were a disappointment because they had no real flavor.
    I should have propagated the trees last summer in case they didn't make it.
     
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    [​IMG] Potatoes are up and I find out temps are supposed to be down to the 30's... that stinks. In the other garden the corn and beans are up and we were having such great temps. Oh, well. Forgot the squash and cucumbers they are up too..
     
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    We've been doing the same with 3 avocado trees we grew from seed.... drag em in, drag em out. We dug holes for them last year along the back side of the new veggie garden, but never took the time to actually plant them. After 5 years of this, it's happening this year and come what may.

    I've considered figs, one of my neighbors grows them. I'll have to see if that is a viable option for our area. Meanwhile, if you have any extra jars of jam..... :)
     
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    Do you have any row cover?
     
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    No..nada I am just going to cross my fingers and hope for the best. Our weather is like the weather in Texas it changes fast. Maybe this cold front will get pulled north before it reaches us.
     
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    We did the same with a lemon and grapefruit I grew from seed. The lemon had one flower in 20 years. The neighbor use to make tea with the leaves. I finally gave them away. I would really like to go outside and pick a lemon or orange.
    The first time I went to Florida we went to some guys lot that had some orange trees and I picked an orange and ate it and it was the best orange I ever had. Well worth gigantic bugs and lizards leaping across the grass to get to it lol. Seriously, bugs bigger than my thumb and leaping lizards. It was magical on some level. Course I smoked pot back then so there was that too.
     
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    When the oranges aren't over fertilized they taste better. My Mother had orange trees in her back yard. My husband said they were the best oranges he ever ate i will have to admit they were good..
     
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    This was more like an over grown lot with old orange trees. Im sure the guy didn't do anything to help them along. More like he had no interest in them. First time I saw and ate an orange right off a tree. It was very cool and super delicious.
     
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    We grew up with oranges all around us. I saw a movie on the hallmark channel about a family growing oranges with a freeze coming, and I do remember some of the struggles that go on when a freeze is coming. The smudge pots would go out and it was an all night job sometimes putting the smudge pots out to protect the crop. When the school fall Halloween festival came it was a town event the packing houses would loan the school packing crates to make the boothes for selling stuff. Growing up back then was so simple.
     
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    I am not sure. I started them from cuttings taken off my neighbors tree. My wife says Brown figs.
     
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    Potatoes will usually recover from a frost. They just get a little burnt.
     
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    Yep. I planted a bunch of fruit trees a couple years ago and the deer destroyed most of them just rubbing all the bark off them. I have to use a lot of fence to protect my vegetables. Sometimes around it, sometimes over it. I completely gave up growing okra because they have such an appetite for the plants. I don't blame the deer as they have to do what they have to do. I just adapt as I can.
     
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    I will fish this next weekend, where it says "coral creek fishing pier" it's right before the island. Old railroad track, probably over a mile long pier. World class fishing. I will load my recumbent bike in the van and unload it, load all my fishing gear and pedal my ass out their. Piers are great to fish but damn, it's a long ass way to carry all your gear. Did that today on one closer to home, just had a dinner of mangrove snapper. My poor little dog has to stay home when I fish Screenshot 2021-03-31 at 8.24.11 PM.png
     
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    Sounds like you need to eat some okra with a side of deer steaks! :D
     
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    Got my ass burnt up in the sun, but it's all good. Been getting my ass burnt up all my life, a few good burns and you barely need sunscreen. Might look like gator hide when I'm 50 but oh well.

    I wont mention by name but one member here lives right in the area. Me? It's a 30 to 50 mile drive to good saltwater fishing. 50 miles to the Gulf of Mexico, 30 to pretty salty rivers in the harbor. The extra 20 miles is worth the gas.
     
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