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spring, I noticed that if you don't cut tree branches but bend them down, the amount of fruit increases and you don't need to cut the branches

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Today is April 7th and frosts have started, I am thinking about how to save the apricot, I put a large pot of water and turned on a fine spray of water under the apricot at night, in the morning there was ice on the water.

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the apple tree has not been pruned for several years, all the branches are bent down, if you want to get large fruits it is convenient to remove excess inflorescences. it is very convenient to collect fruits in the fall

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Bamboo tolerates frosts very well, and unexpectedly helped me out financially when its shoots began to be in demand

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there will be frosts at night for several days, I had to make a burner. thick-walled pipe 2 bricks top from a fire extinguisher with a hole. draft is regulated by a stone on the hole. firewood is tightly packed into the pipe and ignited from above

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removed the bricks, the pipe can simply be placed on the ground and a small gap can be dug for air flow. this is quite enough for smoke to come out and the thick-walled pipe to heat up

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the first day of frosts has passed, last night it was -3 C the burner worked all night, three more days and it will warm up

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Reed is very helpful, it allows you to replace straw for bedding and powerful stems resembling bamboo allow you to make fences. In summer it looks like a large green bush 5.5 m high and is renewed every year

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I have prepared tomato seedlings. This year I will plant interesting varieties and there will be experiments.

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The situation with electricity has stabilized, there is backup power, we are starting the process

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Last Sunday I bought new chickens, today is the first day they went outside, new life - new impressions)

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saved a little money on blackberry fencing

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the fight for apricots continues, it was -4 C at night, we don't give up

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My bio septic tank, volume about 10m3, has not been rolled out for more than 10 years, it is constantly full, bacteria are used

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first harvest)

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Hello Brother Bogdan!
Haven't been writing back for some time, but you are always in our prayers my friend. Great work and thanks for the photo spread. You have me dreaming back to my backyard in California, my only experience growing and eating fresh apricots. The taste of one just picked, as it is slowly chewed...... a sensation not unlike Odin's gulping his mead in the realm of the Norse gods
So glad to know your electric systems are more stable now. Keep growing!
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Rico Loma wrote:Hello Brother Bogdan!
Haven't been writing back for some time, but you are always in our prayers my friend. Great work and thanks for the photo spread. You have me dreaming back to my backyard in California, my only experience growing and eating fresh apricots. The taste of one just picked, as it is slowly chewed...... a sensation not unlike Odin's gulping his mead in the realm of the Norse gods
So glad to know your electric systems are more stable now. Keep growing!
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Hi Rico, everything will be as we want and all our dreams will come true, if you plant apricot choose super late varieties and there are varieties that do not suffer from moneliosis. so that you can avoid spring frosts. After buying, I cut them to a meter. When the side branches appear, I begin to bend them then not such active growth does not need to be cut much and many fruit buds are formed. Lately I have been planting trees not in holes but on hills further I will show this process. Try to grow an apricot from a stone, you get a good strong tree with remarkable immunity.

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the fight for apricot continues, the burner shows itself very well this morning the pipe was hot. It snowed in the morning, 2 more days of frost and it will be warm.

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When planting trees, I used to use the traditional method of planting: I dug a hole, put the tree in the hole and filled it with soil. Then I started experimenting and one of the experiments was when a devevo sits in a hole 40 cm deep. By the way, this experiment was successful, there is an apple tree above that is shaped like a bush. The hole is constantly filled with fallen leaves and garbage, but then it all disappears and the hole appears again. Now I plant trees in the following way. I put the tree on the ground and fill it with a wheelbarrow of soil on top and tamp it down tightly. It works very quickly. It is important that the transition between the root and the trunk is very high, often even the roots are visible. By the way, pay attention to how the trees grow in the forest, and this is often the case, the roots are visible. Next to the tree, I make a hole a meter deep with a garden drill. And in the summer I fill this hole with waste and grass. Now I have 2 sources of nitrogen: chicken manure and a septic tank that is always full of gray wastewater. Also, thanks to the stove, I have a lot of ash. Planting on hills gives many advantages: ventilation, the tree does not stand in a puddle during the rainy season, and in summer the hill is overgrown with lawn grass and does not allow it to dry out... Considering that there is little snow in winter now, lawn grass on the hill gives little benefit. Here is an example of how a cherry tree is planted

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especially good on hills for peach, it looks very decorative and is very useful for it. You can form a beautiful garden with dense planting and a short-formed crown. The most important thing is that the peach is cut during the formation of the pink bud. If you cut the peach in winter, it will not blossom early and the flowers will freeze.

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I am currently conducting an experiment with hardening figs, in our area they do not grow without shelter. And usually they are planted in a hole so that it is convenient to bend and not behind the roots, I went the other way, the fig is planted on a hill with open roots. And it seems to me that the buds are alive, we will see how it will survive these frosts.

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I use oak scraps from the sawmill as firewood. I made large flower pots out of them, from a distance it looks like a tree root

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when I was thinking about what kind of fence to build, I came up with the idea to build it out of wood. When I was looking for suitable options, I saw a company that chopped firewood and had a small sawmill. When I asked the price of a pine board, they said there was no pine, but they could make me oak boards for the price of pine, and I said ok) I made a fence and a kitchen out of these boards) the fence has been standing for over 15 years, 5 years ago it was painted with Swedish paint.

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"it's snowing and every snowflake falls in its designated place" it will be cold for a couple more days and then it will be a little more fun, hazelnut, dogwood and onion feel great during frosts, I hope that other plants will survive this small test)

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frosts are ending, today will be the last day -2, 12.04.2025 I am planting the first tomatoes in a thermos barrel

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Amazing results from your clever efforts, Bogdan. Oak is such a strong and lovely wood, that fence will stand for years to come. Sadly, most of our small sawmills are closing down here, but back in the mists of time I collected their slab wood....that first cut with bark attached ....for projects and firewood.

Thank you the suggestions for fruit trees, I am looking for apricot stones to plant. You have a green, green thumb and a big heart my brother!

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Rico Loma wrote:Amazing results from your clever efforts, Bogdan. Oak is such a strong and lovely wood, that fence will stand for years to come. Sadly, most of our small sawmills are closing down here, but back in the mists of time I collected their slab wood....that first cut with bark attached ....for projects and firewood.

Thank you the suggestions for fruit trees, I am looking for apricot stones to plant. You have a green, green thumb and a big heart my brother!

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A Rico fence can be made from anything you have at hand, just plant a climbing rose nearby and nail its shoots to the fence with a construction stapler - it will look beautiful and, due to the rose's thorns, it will provide serious protection.

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chicken fencing, done and planting blackberries I have several varieties planted but I like Loch Tay the most, I make a hole with a garden drill to a depth of one meter and tightly pack it with humus with chicken droppings and plant a blackberry bush on top

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yesterday I bought a broken bar stool for 2 dollars, there was an oak board lying near the chicken coop that had aged wonderfully in an aggressive environment. I also bought a can of paint. I welded the metal frame, and treated the board with a rough metal brush. I'll leave it like this for now, and then either paint it a dark color or use an old piece of leather and cover it with leather.

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the plants survived the frosts, I checked several apricot flowers and I see ovaries. Also, the cherry and apricot are starting to bloom at the pink bud stage. It is necessary to give additional feeding. I make a solution. I wrap 1.5 cups of oak ash in a cloth, put it in a bucket of water and put it on the stove for long heating, I also add oak bark. In the morning I will add laundry soap. a little iodine and bring it to 5.5 pH with citric acid. This will be an additional feeding to the standard treatment for moneliosis. The ash will provide potassium, the high temperature will slightly improve the process, and the tannins from the oak bark will affect the fungi.

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Bogdan, thanks for sharing your trials with frost and farming with us and your methods of growing trees. I'm glad your burner worked in the snow and cold to protect your fruit trees. I hope you are safe as the war goes on.

Can you tell us more about the land you farm? How much land is there?

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Riona Abhainn wrote:Bogdan, thanks for sharing your trials with frost and farming with us and your methods of growing trees. I'm glad your burner worked in the snow and cold to protect your fruit trees. I hope you are safe as the war goes on.

Can you tell us more about the land you farm? How much land is there?

Thank you, I have a small plot of land, about 0.2 acres. Part of this area is occupied by a house with a basement. There was a time when my family spent most of the time in this basement and I am very grateful for the strong concrete walls. I am located near Kyiv. I have a small garden and a few chickens. Nature helps me and I try to help nature. I do small experiments and this gives me small fruits, unexpectedly, despite the war, they started buying bamboo and reed from me, which I tried to adapt to climate change for a long time and I succeeded, now I am thinking about how to plan an advertising campaign more competently. With chickens, it also turned out unexpectedly and also began to bear fruit. I did not want to kill them for meat, including because chickens do not lay eggs for long. The idea of selling hatching eggs did not work out. Now I raise purebred chickens and sell them expensively, this allows me to take in advance the money that I could get from selling eggs, and people get healthy domestic chickens with good immunity. My goal is to get domestic hens that lay colored eggs. Now I have Marans and I also got crosses from the Czech Republic that lay colored eggs. When mixed with Marans, you get strong hens that will lay eggs of different colors. Also, hens are a source of fertilizer and they mow my lawn well and remove weeds between tomatoes.

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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:Nice work, Bogdan!

Thank you Douglas

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apricot feels good despite the frost, it is already warm and it is pollinated by bumblebees and bees. I have some reeds left and I made a house for the bees osmium. I cut an old plastic bottle, filled it with reeds and heated it on the fire, the plastic gave in and the reeds are tightly packed. I removed the partitions with a drill and the house for the osmium is ready

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What does this mean
'devevo sits in a hole 40 cm deep'

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John C Daley wrote:What does this mean
'devevo sits in a hole 40 cm deep'

a hole is dug and then a second one in it, into which the tree is planted. The tree is below ground level, this suits the apple tree and the harvest is wonderful, but now I do not use this method

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Bogdon, thanks for sharing your story with us. Do you know the latin name of your reed?

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Why did you stop the double hole method?
\Where did that name come from, I cannot find it anywhere?
From https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s12052-012-0418-x#:~:text=Evolutionary%20developmental%20biology%20(evo%E2%80%93devo,changes%20that%20occur%20between%20generations.

I found this; "Devevo planting" likely refers to plant evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), a field that studies how changes in development during
individual generations relate to the evolutionary changes that occur between generations.
In simpler terms, it explores how developmental processes lead to the evolution of plant traits and diversity. "

I have seen the term :evo-devo which is just as difficult to understand.
Is your original word, devevo correct? I cannot find it mentioned anywhere?

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