[ale] Way OT - Gardening

Fri Apr 26 16:55:36 EDT 2013

fresh fig with a blob of goat cheese all wrapped in pancetta!

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> Oh that hurts to know your neighbor cut down the fig tree.  Wow, I love
> fresh figs and fig preserves.
> Allen B.
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
> ________________________________
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney [
> jim.kinney at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 3:33 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Way OT - Gardening
>
> Yeah. Peaches attract bugs for miles.
>
> I have to put bird netting over my blueberries to get anything for me.
> After the first picking, I take off the netting at let the birds go nuts.
>
> Neighbor cut down a 30' fig tree 'cause it was 'messy'. They had no idea
> what those funny things the birds were fighting over were. Figs will
> ferment on the tree and the birds will fight over the fermented ones and
> get just blasted and fall out. funny to watch a flock staggering around
> like college kids at a kegger.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu<mailto:
> allen at ua.edu>> wrote:
> You need to give it a good spraying :)
> Allen B.
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> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
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> <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] on behalf of Scott Castaline [
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> The house we're now renting, has a hybrid fruit tree in back. Our
> first summer here we didn't know that what it was. All of sudden it
> seemed it was growing these green fuzz balls. A week or 2 later we saw
> that they changed colors and found that they were peaches, but there
> were also nectarines and plums. Most of them the bugs and worms got
> which attracted the birds. We were soon invaded by birds that would
> start fighting each other for the bug infested fruit leaving the
> remains to rot on the patio.
>
> Last summer we weren't able to get any of the fruit as everyone had
> worm holes.
>
> Scott C.
>
>
> On 04/26/2013 02:46 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Yay Food!
> >
> > I have a batch of the funny brown tomato seeds ready to start
> > sprouting. The fruits look odd but are very, very tasty. Grape
> > vines are in but not trellised yet (merlot in Georgia will be a
> > challenge!) and the new fig tree is looking happy. I didn't get
> > around to splitting out the root runner off the early blueberry
> > bush (again) this winter and it looks better than the mother bush.
> > The other 2 blueberries are fruiting out nicely.
> >
> > I'll probably plant some other stuff soon but I have such limited
> > full sun it's hard to narrow down the choices. I've learned my
> > lesson about sugar pie pumpkins - plant those AFTER July 1 so the
> > squash vine wasp won't get them. We eat pumpkin pie for breakfast
> > :-) YUM! way better than cheerios, poptarts or bagels.
> >
> > Oh. I also planted a cascade hops vine this year :-) I still need
> > to set up the ling string to the gutter for it. It's got 3 good
> > shoots now at nearly 3 feet up a pole.
> >
> > The plum tree from 7 years ago has never produced a single bloom as
> > is likely to get the axe to make room for a dwarf apple or pear
> > tree. Bummer. It was from a runner off a relatives plum tree that
> > cranked out 15-25 lbs of red plums every year. the last apple tree
> > I had got hit by a sudden April freeze that killed all the leave
> > buds (3 days below 25F will do that). We had been getting really
> > good cooking/canning apples from that one. I almost held a memorial
> > service for it.
> >
> > We no longer get volunteer tomatoes from 8 years ago. We had a
> > single plant called "garden candy" that put out a steady stream of
> > thumb-sized sugar-sweet OMFG!!! tomatoes from June until frost. The
> > birds hauled off a bunch and those seeds popped up plants for the
> > next 4 years. The drought finally stopped all that fun. Very sad
> > now but very happy then. Hard to collect seeds from it as we ate
> > all before they made it inside. Not a single one EVER hit a salad
> > :-)
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu
> <mailto:allen at ua.edu>
> > <mailto:allen at ua.edu<mailto:allen at ua.edu>>> wrote:
> >
> > So, this is about as far off topic as one can stray, but I thought
> > I would throw it out here for an afternoon diversion on this
> > pretty spring day (at least it is a pretty spring day over here in
> > Alabama :) ) Are any of you into gardening? If so, what do you
> > plant, and what have you already gotten in the ground for this
> > season? I start most of my tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc...
> > from seed, and I have them up and almost ready to set out.  I've
> > been tilling during the brief periods when it has not been
> > raining/too wet from rain, and I haven't been at work. I'm hoping
> > to get the first round of tomatoes in the ground in the upcoming
> > week, along with squash, corn, green beans, cucumbers, and lima
> > beans. I start from seed and set out fresh batches of tomatoes at
> > about 2-3 week intervals through August, giving me fresh tomatoes
> > through Fall, so I have lots of tomato plants in various stages of
> > growth. Lots of work, but I love my fresh vegetables almost as much
> > as I love growing them :) Allen B.
> >
> > -- Allen Beddingfield Systems Engineer The University of Alabama
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> at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
> It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
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