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Looks wonderful, James!
Eric, he gets a lot of sun. Something that we have just begun to see break thru the clouds and warm the NorthWest the last few days (at least in the interior , 98°F y'day).
Apricots seems like an excellent choice for the climate. I should have them rather than, once again, wondering if my peach tree can survive here . Since they are always out there - fruit trees just seem to be very specific as to where they will want to grow and thrive.
Here near the 49th parallel, we are just going to have to capitalize on our 60 minutes more daylight than Utah gets and this new-to-us (very) warm weather.
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Eric, he gets a lot of sun. Something that we have just begun to see break thru the clouds and warm the NorthWest the last few days (at least in the interior , 98°F y'day).
Apricots seems like an excellent choice for the climate. I should have them rather than, once again, wondering if my peach tree can survive here . Since they are always out there - fruit trees just seem to be very specific as to where they will want to grow and thrive.
Here near the 49th parallel, we are just going to have to capitalize on our 60 minutes more daylight than Utah gets and this new-to-us (very) warm weather.
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Peaches and some apricots and plums do not do well here. Most zone 5 hardy trees will live a few years, then we get one of those zone 4 winters and they die. I have found a couple of hardy apricots that have been making it so far. I have a couple of small peach trees, that I still have hopes for, but we will see. They have not bloomed yet. Maybe next year? ......... that is, if they make winter. It is the LOW winter temp that divides the hardy from the not so hardy. If you go to minus 20 probably apricots and peaches are out.
Yes, indeed we do get a lot of very bright sunshine. Low pollution here and very few clouds this year. Ten minutes in this bright sun will give you sunburn if you are not protected or tanned.
Yes, indeed we do get a lot of very bright sunshine. Low pollution here and very few clouds this year. Ten minutes in this bright sun will give you sunburn if you are not protected or tanned.
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Looking great James!
Sun, eh? Something to think about.
So the shorter number of growing days are compensated by number of high quality sunshine hours? (kind of similar to Alaska where they practically have no nights during the available growing days. ... And Steve gets an hour more sun each day.... I guess Eric should get more daylight too, except he gets more cloudy days..... Interesting....
Sun, eh? Something to think about.
So the shorter number of growing days are compensated by number of high quality sunshine hours? (kind of similar to Alaska where they practically have no nights during the available growing days. ... And Steve gets an hour more sun each day.... I guess Eric should get more daylight too, except he gets more cloudy days..... Interesting....
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I was surprised to see ripe apricots.
I have 2 Puget Gold apricots and 2 Frost peach trees. These two varieties do fairly well here. The peach tree has been so laden with fruit the last two years it was breaking branches.
[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Double%20Dog%20Farm%20%20%20Vegetables%20and%20%20Fruits/PeachesSept62011006.jpg[/img]
I haven't had a good apricot crop for a couple years. I believe this picture is from 2009.
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I will be pruning the apricots back fairly hard this Fall
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I have 2 Puget Gold apricots and 2 Frost peach trees. These two varieties do fairly well here. The peach tree has been so laden with fruit the last two years it was breaking branches.
[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Double%20Dog%20Farm%20%20%20Vegetables%20and%20%20Fruits/PeachesSept62011006.jpg[/img]
I haven't had a good apricot crop for a couple years. I believe this picture is from 2009.
[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Double%20Dog%20Farm%20%20%20Vegetables%20and%20%20Fruits/DSC01095.jpg[/img]
I will be pruning the apricots back fairly hard this Fall
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The top picture is Frost peaches. They are in a 16 quart bowl. This is only part of the harvest. This years harvest appears to be smallerReptileAddiction wrote: that is from one tree? is it a full size? My peach is a dwarf and if I pruned it back hard there would be no where for any fruit. it is a very small tree.
My peach and apricots are semi-dwarf trees.
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Beautiful day in Paradise July 9
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Carrots in bloom. My seed project
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Bush Beans just starting to bloom.
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Beautiful day in Paradise July 9
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Broccoli
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Carrots in bloom. My seed project
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Bush Beans just starting to bloom.
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I agree you have awesome pics. I want pics of your fruit trees please? That would be awesome. Now that I have in ground fruit it is by far my favorite thing to grow. Currently I only have a dwarf peach. A blueberry and a grape. The grape was just planted in the ground and I will hopefully get grapes for the first time next year. This year I harvested about 5 medium peaches and about 10 small ones. Plus about a cup or 2 of blueberries. My peach tree should have another 10 inches of fruiting wood on each branch so next year my peach harvest could easily double. Plus all the lemons and stuff that will be going in mid winter.
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Northern Utah, Cache Valley, a little town called Paradise.wow they do look super healthy where about's do you live in Utah
Utah is a high mountain desert for the most part. A little corner of Southern Utah is a much lower desert.I always love looking at your photographs. And here I thought Utah was just desert!
I have mentioned before that those who settled much of Utah diverted the streams and built reservoirs and canals for irrigation. Without that we would not be raising much of anything, except dust.
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Warmth:applestar wrote:Looking great James!
Sun, eh? Something to think about.
So the shorter number of growing days are compensated by number of high quality sunshine hours? (kind of similar to Alaska where they practically have no nights during the available growing days. ... And Steve gets an hour more sun each day.... I guess Eric should get more daylight too, except he gets more cloudy days..... Interesting....
Most warm-season plants make minimal growth unless the average daily temperature is above 50°F. Cool-season veggies may get by with 40°. These are averages between highs and lows and those can't be too extreme since plants will shut down at say 90° and if the overnight temperature is approaching freezing, not even peas will make any real growth during that day.
Low Utah humidity will mean that James has extremes to interfere with his gardens. There will be what seems to people elsewhere, enormous swings between the cool at sunrise and the warmth at mid afternoon. Plants don't necessarily like that - James has convinced them to thrive, in spite of it.
Pointing out that there's so much more daylight time for someone who lives where it is always cool, like on the northern Pacific coast, is just a way of say - we are all in this together.
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Sure the truth. This morning just before sunrise it was 62° here and now at 10:45 AM its already up to 94°. Yesterday it got up to 98°. Its predicted to hit 102° today. Well........ I watered the garden last night, so maybe the corn and squash will like it. Have a great day!Low Utah humidity will mean that James has extremes to interfere with his gardens. There will be what seems to people elsewhere, enormous swings between the cool at sunrise and the warmth at mid afternoon.