Random pics & chatter

[HillsideDesolate]

More closures
Sprouts Farmers Market is closing 10 stores. Here's where and why
https://www.azcentral.com/story/mon...osing-10-us-stores-where-and-why/69985893007/

Man I love Sprouts, didn't start going there till I moved to OK.; however when I was a kid and it was called Bonnies we use to go there, my grandma would trade boysenberries, tangerines and other citrus for store credit when we lived in SoCal.

They have a good vision of keeping 1/3 of the store on sale to make healthy food affordable. Plus they are the only place I can find Sockeye Salmon here (friends don't let friends eat farmed salmon).

The only negative is sometimes I smell hippies there.

 

[Chuckie]

I used Sprouts Grocery for the first time last week after consistently finding spoiled onions (both red & yellow) from Crest Foods over the last few trips I've made there. The items I've gotten at Sprouts, though a little more expensive, seem to be of better/fresher quality, but time will tell.

 

[dennishoddy]

Asparagus is up! Young crowns always seem to pop up first, followed by the mature jersey giants.

 

[HillsideDesolate]

 

[Timmy59]

Asparagus is up! Young crowns always seem to pop up first, followed by the mature jersey giants.

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Yup same here..

 

[Timmy59]

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Man, if that doesn't ring true,..

 

[HillsideDesolate]

Got some fruit trees and black and boysen berries in the mail. Arrived a little earlier than expected. I gottem heeled in in the shade while I make arrangements

Green gage plum
Arkansas Black apple
Elefant heart plum, this one is starting to break bud.

Wish I had ordered some root stock, these came with a good amount of scion wood. I may still have time.

The apple came absolutely perfect for espallier though

 

[2busy]

Got some fruit trees and black and boysen berries in the mail. Arrived a little earlier than expected. I gottem heeled in in the shade while I make arrangements

Green gage plum
Arkansas Black apple
Elefant heart plum, this one is starting to break bud.

Wish I had ordered some root stock, these came with a good amount of scion wood. I may still have time.

The apple came absolutely perfect for espallier though

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I had to prune a plum tree I got, rootstock would have been nice.
For some reason I had it in my head I was pruning a nectarine. Think those plum grafts will take on my peach tree

 

[HillsideDesolate]

I had to prune a plum tree I got, rootstock would have been nice.
For some reason I had it in my head I was pruning a nectarine. Think those plum grafts will take on my peach tree

Plum should be able to graft to peach and vice versa

Also plums usually do ok on their own roots. I might just stick them in a sand bed and see what they do

 

[Timmy59]

Got some fruit trees and black and boysen berries in the mail. Arrived a little earlier than expected. I gottem heeled in in the shade while I make arrangements

Green gage plum
Arkansas Black apple
Elefant heart plum, this one is starting to break bud.

Wish I had ordered some root stock, these came with a good amount of scion wood. I may still have time.

The apple came absolutely perfect for espallier though

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, I got 1lb of turmeric rhizomes and 2 starts yesterday. Planted the starts and will wet place the rhizomes before long. I have hope of leaving it inground as I see from Wayland Smalley deep mulch gardening. Every year is a new adventure .