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Post by richardw on Aug 7, 2018 15:46:52 GMT -5
Fires are a growing worry for many around the world as seen during this current NH summer, for me any grass fires would could come from the west which is why i planted my orchard that side of the house, its kept watered so is always green.
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Post by richardw on Aug 4, 2018 0:49:22 GMT -5
That's what i like about here, low humidity is the norm during summer, do get the odd native mosquito and biting fly though, having short winters, long autumn and spring months is a plus too.
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Post by richardw on Aug 3, 2018 0:15:01 GMT -5
Would be interesting to see if the clones you have over there produce flowers, all the New Zealand strains don't or rarely do. Shame your importation regulations are tight,
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Post by richardw on Jul 31, 2018 14:49:17 GMT -5
Hi Woz and welcome.
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Post by richardw on Jul 29, 2018 19:20:21 GMT -5
Last day of the middle month of winter and spring has arrived very early, a weeping willow not far away from here is now green, two weeks earlier than last year, thousands of sparrows are courting in the pine tree line by the garden,one Haskap has flower buds while another plant has leaves well open. Always snowed every year and most years more than once, today it hasn't snowed for three years, the weather is warming fast now
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eclipse
Jul 29, 2018 19:11:04 GMT -5
Post by richardw on Jul 29, 2018 19:11:04 GMT -5
I'm far from being the depressant type in yet i still ask that quuestion too
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eclipse
Jul 28, 2018 14:49:17 GMT -5
Post by richardw on Jul 28, 2018 14:49:17 GMT -5
Oh, wonderful! I'm very envious; we were in exactly the right spot to not be able to see any of it. I thought the eclipse for you in the Americas would have happened while the moon was on the opposite side of earth.
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Post by richardw on Jul 28, 2018 14:45:59 GMT -5
I have a fella next door who is one of those flat earth believers, but i reckon ive just about got him won over with this eclipse, as i said to him, here in New Zealand the moon was setting in the SW as it was reaching full eclipse, while in western Europe it had only just risen, that can only happen with a round earth, also the curvature of earth was clearly seen on the surface of the moon at the half way point of the eclipse.
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Post by richardw on Jul 27, 2018 19:15:46 GMT -5
Lucky to have had a very clear sky but also that it was getting light just as it reached its full eclipse
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Post by richardw on Jul 25, 2018 14:57:38 GMT -5
Noticeably longer daylight hours now and only three weeks away from noticing the increasing daytime warmth.
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Post by richardw on Jul 24, 2018 23:11:18 GMT -5
Wow, i didnt know they would last that long, i'll take my words back then. This is even more reason for me to get into growing open pollinate sweet potato.
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Post by richardw on Jul 23, 2018 15:12:46 GMT -5
Over all I'm starting to think they are superior to potatoes as a sustainable food crop. Easier to grow, more productive, easier to store, stores much longer, from what I understand more nutritious and last but not least they are vastly easier to get true seeds. I like the sound of that!, That is certainly not the case with the NZ Kumara clones that need at least 150 frost free days even before they start to grow a reasonable crop of tubers. Stores longer? depends on the potato variety, be hard to beat the Moie moie potato that i grow that if 'rubbed' we can still be eating up to late spring when the new spuds are coming on.
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Post by richardw on Jul 22, 2018 0:49:43 GMT -5
Winters tend to be a bit up and down temperature wise, take yesterday, got to 18C 64F which is warm here for mid winter, but we don't really get hard freezing like you get. I had thought it may have something to do with the high water table i get here in winter, the water at the moment is about metre below ground but i can still drive a car around over this property being alluvial. So the plants don't stand in overly wet soil.
My black current is an unknown old variety that ive had for 30+ years, a number of years ago i was given a black current that was some highfalutin modern commercial variety that didn't end up producing any better than the my old variety, was supposed to have been the bees knees in taste and yield.
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Post by richardw on Jul 21, 2018 14:30:44 GMT -5
I only grow the black current nowadays as i dont get the die back i was getting on the red and white currents, this something you get with yours at all?.
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Post by richardw on Jul 21, 2018 0:19:45 GMT -5
Would be handy to be able to select for more uniform ripening, at least ripe currents can stay on the bush of a couple of weeks while the later ripening fruit catch up.
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