Amy Hoven

I also like a variety of trees so on my suburban 3/4 acres I have many types of trees. Counted 12 peach trees yesterday. On the largest tree I have 29 fruits on one tree. In Mobile, Alabama, loquats are seen in many yards. They bloom in the late fall and early winter months, November and December. This is a unique characteristic of loquat trees, the fruit ripens in the late winter or early spring. I love picking them and popping the fruit in my mouth when outside working. They usually have two large seeds and it’s wise to not spit them out where you don’t want a tree. Unfortunately our 2024 winter wasn’t mild but some snow this year. No fruit but the chill hours beneficial for the peaches. I also love the Satsuma tree but not sure if this will be a fruitful year due to our lack of rain till this week(No April showers)So if Mother Nature doesn’t throw us a curve ball I can pick and eat fruit three times a year. I have other hardwood and softwood favorite trees but will save that for another day.

Tater Tot Casserole
Important to brown them 1st can use air fryer or skillet or let them brown while your banana nut bread is baking
Rectangle aluminum cake pan
1)Brown ground beef or venison with 1 medium to small chopped onion
2)Add 1 can of drained rotel tomatoes or any other type
3)add I can of cream of mushroom soup or what ever you have on hand mixing it with 3/4 c of milk using the can to get everything out.
4)add shredded cheese and French fried onions about 1cup of each
5)insert your browned tator tots side by side till pan is full sprinkle more cheese and French fried onions
6)Bake till bubbly approx 45mins
7)cut in wedges and serve

I’m so so sorry that I made a repeat post of your original posting about the seeds. I added more info about something I’ve tried in 2020 but am not seeing it so not feeling time to rewrite it ALL again but I recommended tomatoes, pole red green beans, loufa sponges. Shared using an old aluminum umbrella where I drilled small holes to thread heavy duty fishing line to allow a lot of climbing. Very successful. So 5 yrs later the aluminum pole that comes apart still around but not able to do a lot of gardening due to both of my parents passing but gardening is my therapy. So my umbrella was missing a few segments that easily knocked off + I turned the umbrella into a half moon structure. Planted a grape vine in the partial very large clay planter that I’ll probably never try to move. The hole of the pot perfectly fit a nice hole for drainage but also large enough to fit to flat segments fitted together from the umbrella hammered deep in the ground to support the umbrella. So we’ll see what I’ll grow. This OH born, Bama raised always trying to grow something rooted, etc. in my own special ways. I’m interested in sour cherry + plum tree seeds but not sure how they’ll grow in the Deep South suburban Mobile, AL orchard.

Wow! So amazed at what I’ve learned from all the comments. Thank you! I was googling in the hopes to recall what my dad had told my husb + I to do to help our older calf. I can’t recall its exact age but it was weaned + maybe close to being a yearly. I would like clarification from someone else who has done this before. I believe it was charcoal, a small amt, crushed in powder so it could be dissolves in water. We used a long neck bottle, telling my age because back then we used a coke bottle(probably why you find them in old barns). Today, you could use a long neck beer bottle. My father could of been a Vet, + he told us to mix the charcoal with water(probably warm) in a long neck bottle + feed it to the older calf to stop the diarrhea(I didn’t know it was called scour).
It worked + we weren’t unable to butcher Bo, which is why we bought him at auction. I’m 99.9% sure when our goat ate on an azalea bush the stuff was a charcoal base the Vet gave us.

A cyst like growth was removed from the paw on my Jack Russell Terrier. I asked the Vet if this happened again could I do something so it wouldn’t get bigger. He said I could try children’s Bendryl. The grape seed extract info is very good to know + will share your wisdom to others. My grandmother who lived to be 103 did a lot of medicinal meds + she said they gave the peel of grapefruits to servicemen for something aligning them back then.
Alabama Amy