July 9, 2018
Today and this past week we have worked on identifying some of the plants we have.
Today and this past week we have worked on identifying some of the plants we have.
We were thrilled today to discover one of the trees seems to be a pear tree! yum!
One seems to be a sour cherry tree. Maybe it is just not ripe yet,
but Emma and Matt said the very red fruit was pretty sour
I am pretty sure this is a Nanking cherry bush
(a little like currants, but with pits rather than tiny edible seeds)
Emma says it is pretty sour too. She likes it.
Now I want to try to do something with these red beauties!!!
I am not a cherry fan,
but the thought of not trying to do something with this bonus blessing makes me sad!
(Update July 10, 2018 - We picked a few of each cherries and cooked them then strained them to make this jelly. It doesn't taste 1/2 bad. Not so much cherry as sweet with a touch of sour jelly.
I plan to make biscuits for breakfast to have with it. So fun that it came from our yard!)
We also for sure have several apples, and one or two that might be crab apples or possibly just another variety of apples.
I look forward to their bounty in the fall!!!
We are so blessed to have the potential for all this fruit.
I wanted to plant trees and berry bushes right off, but with time and money constraints,
we decided to postpone until next spring.
We did order a few raspberry and strawberry plants on clearance, this past week.
I am hoping that will not end up being a waste of money, if they are dead instead of dormant.
Today I also found the first snake. Yuck, why me? My daughters loves snakes!
I think it might have been a baby gopher snake, but I am not really sure.
I don't generally want look at snakes enough to identify them.
Even the pictures are kind of creepy to me...
It looked black and white to me.
I thought it was just a branch by a thistle I was going to pick,
until it moved in a definite snake wiggle. YUCK
My son made sure to tell me when yellow touches red, your dead. There was not yellow and red...
Not helpful!
How do I tell if it is a rattler before it rattles and tries to kill me????
I think it might have been a baby gopher snake, but I am not really sure.
I don't generally want look at snakes enough to identify them.
Even the pictures are kind of creepy to me...
It looked black and white to me.
I thought it was just a branch by a thistle I was going to pick,
until it moved in a definite snake wiggle. YUCK
My son made sure to tell me when yellow touches red, your dead. There was not yellow and red...
Not helpful!
How do I tell if it is a rattler before it rattles and tries to kill me????
I agree about the snakes. Good luck. I hate when find one in our yard and Troy and Sydney catch it and play with it. YUCK. Thanks for the when yellow touches red, your dead. We have only found garter snakes, but I will try to keep that adage in mind.
ReplyDeleteYou both must have gotten your repulsion of snakes from me. I can't even look at a picture of them without getting the creeps. I hated it when my brother Bruce as an elementary school student went on field trips and would bring home snakes.
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