What have you done today in the Garden?

About 20 miles from there, near a town in Missouri that is unincorporated and has no businesses, but there two churches. I was born in Quincy, IL, also about 20 miles from Hannibal. I really grew up there, farm on weekends. My family in the German part of Quincy gardened all their lives, since the 1870s. They gave me my love of gardening. For them, a garden was a natural part of life, not something separate.

I read a lot of Mark Twain. Also, my family fished those backwaters for decades.

 

Cheers for that answer, Daniel. Your past is an interesting one. What a great area to grow up in.
I enjoyed Twain’s books as well.

 

When I was about 5, we lived in a house with a giant old English walnut tree, and they have always been my favorites. But in Missouri, they have black walnuts. I have several black walnut trees on my place, they are very common here. This big one is in my yard. The others are on the edges of the woods where it is more wild.

Nuts of any kind are very expensive in the stores, so it is good to have free nuts.

My favorite kinds of nuts are: English walnuts, pecans, cashews and peanuts. Almonds are nice, but I have to chop or slice those. Some people around here have chestnut trees or filberts.

They have people around here who 'buy' your black walnuts, but friends have said, they had a pickup truck FULL of nuts and barely get enough for 1 tank of gas out of them. I don't think it is worth the effort to sell them.

I forgot to mention yesterday, that the seeds from my summer dill are sprouting, so I have a lot of dill seedlings in my garden again. I hope they make more seeds before it turns cold. I did save some seed indoors for spring.

 

Thanks Sjoerd, it really comes in handy and it was less than $5 to make. I found the netting in the remnants bin at Hobby Lobby.

We had 5 pecan trees in our yard in Texas. When they're ready you see people carrying 5 gallon buckets everywhere. We kept ours or sent them back to Washington State for my son. That was back before postage was ridiculously high.

 

Thank you Pacnorwest, feeling better today but still taking it easy for a while. Can't do much in the garden it's rainy weather.

 

@Logan good news to hear your better today. Sending blessings for Improvement thruout the next few days til back to work.

Not out in the garden it’s overcast with rain on and off. Way too cold for these ole bones. My joints are telling me it’s winter weather already. Who needs a weather forecaster…

 

Thanks @Pacnorwest
I hope that you'll be ok with the winter weather and have to listen to your ole bones.
Anyway can't do much in the garden it's raining again.

 

Same weather as yesterday but colder outside. Marine layer and fog.

@Logan yeap. listening to these ole bones. Ouch…