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Post by jocelyn on May 16, 2017 8:13:05 GMT -5
I just looked on line, and it wasn't much help. I'll have to go get the papers out of the safe deposit box. On line, my grandfather became an officer before he was born. My Uncle was born in 2 different years, and his second name is wrong. The guy who built this house had a son 3 years after he died.....volunteer transcribers are dealing with old papers and sometimes really bad handwriting.
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Post by jocelyn on May 16, 2017 5:47:54 GMT -5
Yah, I'll have to look and see how old my grandfather was when Dad was born too. Dad was one of the youngest, and my Grandfather married as an older man. I have his commission papers from 1868, for the army. Dad was born in 1915. I think 19 was the minimum age to join up, and a commission took a few years. Well, he'd be in his late 60's for my Dad, and probably 70 for his youngest sister.
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Post by jocelyn on May 15, 2017 8:11:34 GMT -5
One comment on old roosters and fertility. 12 is not that old. If he's in good health, he'll cover fewer hens as he ages, but the hatch rate is often over 90%. With hens, the hatch rate falls as they get very old, more so than with the male as the aged parent. If you are desperate to hatch from a still laying but elderly hen, feed her extra protein and vitamins since she is less good at putting these things in the eggs as she ages, and make sure she is locked up with the right rooster so that you can set those first few eggs. Those first eggs have slightly better hatch rates, from before her reserves get depleted. I got 2 chicks from a hen who had just turned 23, none of the rest hatched, but those two did
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Post by jocelyn on May 8, 2017 18:12:40 GMT -5
Ohhhhhhh, yes, I'd like some. The Kids are moving and it would be nice to start some for them too. I suspect it will be a few years till mine bare, so your seeds, should you be able to send some, would be great.
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Post by jocelyn on May 5, 2017 15:15:47 GMT -5
Eagle creek is selling the amarosas after all. I still have one in the fridge for you if they are sold out when you se this.
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Post by jocelyn on May 4, 2017 15:54:22 GMT -5
Good to know I won't have to wait very long. happy anticipation
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Post by jocelyn on May 3, 2017 10:08:18 GMT -5
I just noticed one cydonia quince up, and am delighted. Anybody try those quince? I mail ordered the seeds from Van Dusen's, and several more seeds have chitted, and I'll pot them soon They are rated 5(b), so I'm right on the edge, 5(b)/6(a). I got a grafted one too, but it will bear better with a pollinator, so seeds in the mail too. Quince jam, quince butter, quince slices in light syrup....ah
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 30, 2017 6:16:16 GMT -5
I just cut into my very last squash. From now on, it will be whatever the grocery store has. They kept well, only 3 with bad spots, so a good year. Yummy too. How was everybody else's harvest last fall?
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 27, 2017 14:47:49 GMT -5
I brought home a bur oak on Saturday from the nut meeting. It was also greenhouse grown,not hardened off because there was no time. It has bronzing of the leaves, slight edge cupping and looks like it got a chill.
Try babying it a bit and just wait and see what it does. The ones I got prior years did recover, perhaps your will too.
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 26, 2017 5:10:48 GMT -5
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 26, 2017 5:09:42 GMT -5
Many commercial apples come from orchards that use crab apples as the pollen parent, because you only need a few crabs to get lots of pollen. Your gala seedling might have a very hardy male parent, who knows?
I have beautiful arcade apples, and the seedlings from those make about an 80 percent sized tree. I could save you seeds in the fall if you like. I'm in Canada too. Ag Canada keeps a gene bank and will send out scions, I'll post the link when I find it again. Grin.ca, I better check.
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 10, 2017 13:49:22 GMT -5
Those apple roses look interesting too. We get salt spray here though, so it's probably going to be just the rugosas and the eglantine ones here.
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 10, 2017 3:58:59 GMT -5
I don't think toomanyirons has them in pots? We don't here, in open ground. If you are looking for a row or hedge of them, you can just keep them in check with the lawn mower, or give some away when they sucker. They hybridize happily with whatever other roses are around, so the seedlings all vary a bit.
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 9, 2017 13:39:41 GMT -5
Oh, yah, me too! We have just started a row of them across the front from seeds too, all of 6 inches high at the moment. The parent bushes make huge tasty hips, don't know what kind as Hubby picked them along the boardwalk by his work. I have one Dart's Dash at home, lovely big hips, but these taste different, so not those ones. Once this place warms up, I'll slather them with chicken manure and watch them pop... Hips in a few years here too. I used to go down the French village Road and pick the wild ones, lovely, but the place has changed hands and now I can't....so planted some here. Nothing beats rose hip jam on home made whole wheat toast and peanut butter umm, ummm, umm....
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 9, 2017 13:32:34 GMT -5
It's typical, usual winter. I am on Prince Edward Island, east coast of Canada. Not as much snow as usual this winter, so the frost went slightly deeper. Buildings all have their footings below 4 feet though, below the usual frost. Most folks put their water lines down 5 feet here. Tiny little pea sized tubers, ah, spring!
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