James Bridger

Gotta follow Abe's advice.

M.K. Dorje Sr. wrote:I think your tree is probably OK. Your scratch test shows a healthy-looking cambium layer. Bare root persimmon trees are known for taking a long time to leaf out, and some varieties can take much longer than others. So just keep watering your trees, maybe mulch them like T Melville said and soon the late one should leaf out. I've read about some bare-root persimmons waiting till early or even mid summer before they leaf out. Check out this post from a California grower on growingfruit.org:

https://growingfruit.org/t/very-late-first-year-persimmon/54884

This is encouraging. They're 2 different varieties. The one that's growing is a Rosseyanka, the one with no leaves is a Nikita's Gift. I'll just leave it for now, and keep an eye on moisture.

The whole tree

So this spring, I planted two persimmon bare-root trees. Both planted in full sun, about 20' from each other. Identical growing conditions. One is doing fine, with plenty of nice growth. The other, though, has yet to produce any leaves. It made a bunch of buds, and then just kinda stopped. It's still alive, based on green when I scratch the bark. Is there anything I can do to encourage it to leaf out, or is it just done for?

I like it. I've got 5 kids so I quite often have to double or triple recipes to get everyone fed.

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I'd put my self at average, I can do 2 and a half pullups

I can pull a lot more than I can push. I got knocked over by a kid at the local rolla-rena and smashed my right wrist about 8 months ago, and it still hurts to do pushups. Before that, knocking out 50 pushups was pretty easy.

I guess I'll have to wait till dark so the neighbors don't see, and go pick some weeds tonight!

So last fall, I planted winter rye in the garden as a cover crop. I had read that it can be a pain to kill unless you let I grow until it has seed, but I figured it wouldn't be a big deal. Well.....I was wrong. I let it grow this spring until it was about 8" tall, and I've ve hoed this stuff under 3 times now, and I'm pretty sure I'll be picking it out all summer long. What. A. Pain.
On the other hand......it's done wonders for my soil. I've included a pic of what it looked like before, and a couple pics now. This is a one year old garden, started out with dead dirt that used to be the kids play place. It got 4" of compost tilled in, and the winter rye over the winter. It's now dark, crumbly, full of baby roots from the rye grass, and plenty of worms too.

I won't be planting it again this fall, I'll do something else, but I appreciate what it did for me this year.

1. There are a few different styles of breakers. Whatever brand of breaker you buy has to match your electrical panel. (homeline makes electrical panels, so those homeline breakers may only fit into homeline panels. Why it's not standardized......who knows?)

2. There are 2 110V wires (phases) and a neutral (0V) wire that come into your box. The box is arranged such that every other 110V breaker is on every other 110V line. Think of the 110V sources as line A and line B-the breakers are arranged ABABABAB on down. So, if you install a full size double breaker that connects to both lines, you get 220V (110V+110V). That's why there's no slimline 220 breaker-the breaker has to be big enough to connect to 2 spots in the electrical panel.