Posted on 03/04/2011 5:04:58 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Thank you, I have found some lavendar plants close by and will pick some up. I do have some rosemary and want to plant them between some trees at the edge of the property facing the 3rd green.
I’ll be getting rid of some stumps beginning this Friday. Then I can begin planting along the fence.
LOL
How many times do I have to remind you that you and I went to different schools together in FResno County. Why I planted cotton, I hoed cotton, I irrigated cotton and I picked cotton and then I started all over again. I left about the time of the first single row mechanical picker. My “little” sister lives just across the tracks and up the road a piece from Just Amy...
I admit that I had an upbringing more like the belles in Gone With the Wind BEFORE the unfortunate incident of Northern Agression. Pass the smelling salts, please. I’m beginning to feel a little faint from the insufferable heat!
Actually, my uncle joined with his neighbors to form a co-op in Chowchilla to purchase the first mechanical cotton picker in the SJV because they were so tired of trying to keep a labor force in the fields in the early-mid ‘50s. He said that if you paid them of Friday, you wouldn’t see them again until the following Wed.
And I remember the years before AC. My daddy would bring home a block of ice and put it in a square metal pan and direct an electric fan blowing across it. we’d turn off all the lights, except one, and my mother would read stories to us while I lay on the floor wucking in the breeze from the fan. 105* was a pretty regular experience in the summertime those days.
That should be “sucking in the breeze”. LOL.
Still snowing here.
Hey, tubebender, how is your little sister doing? Are they still farming?
I’m soo happy that we are retired, but we will probably spend the rest of our days on this piece of Fresno County. Hubby always has a great vegetable garden and our few fruit trees are just right for our family. We keep saying we are leaving California, but I doubt that we will.
Like you, I picked cotton and picked grapes. One summer we even picked boysenberries; Now that was a sticky job. :)
Rosemary is ridiculously easy to grow. Just plant it in the ground and forget about it:)
I planted my wifes "dwarf" fig outside a couple years ago. Now, it's around 9ft tall.
I've tried growing avocado, but all were the Mexican avocado, propagated from seed that comes our of the grocer. They don't do well in the yearly cold snap and freeze down to the rootball. I'm planning on purchasing a couple from the local garden center that have been grafted of to a hardier rootstock.
You may consider planting one in a large tub that can be moved indoors in the winter months. It can always be pruned to fit in the house.
Yep, sister and what’s his name still grow Thompson grapes and he does some custom farming nearby. I told them to pull them up and plant cotton but they only have 30 or so acres. She is 6 years younger than I and missed the Great Depression
Thats our favorite kind. Wife really uses a lot of rosemary, so that is good.
WE have our twenty acres leased; he planted Zinfindal. The almond growers in the area are doing pretty good. Several acres of grapes were taken out for almonds.
I guess you have to be raied in that heat to live through it. My Roomey has told me stories similar to yours about the heat and humidity in So. TX when he was growing up. He just thought everyone “sweat”.
Ok, but I’ll leave room along the fence line for lavendar. I think that will look so GREAAAT.
I don’t believe that I mentioned humidity. In those days (40s & 50s) the San Joaquin Valley (great central valley of CA) had NONE. That is why we were able to stand it. I remember my aunt (who lived in Bakersfield and maintained a large garden) tell be about gardening at night to escape the heat.
But, with thousands of acres under the plow and fed by massive irrigation projects, the climate in the Central Valley changed. The desert air coolers (where water was pumped over sisal pads and a fan blew air through it to cool the house) no longer worked and everybody got air conditioning by the early 1960s. The desert air coolers (a sophisticated version of my father’s fan over a block of ice) no longer worked because the humidity actually rose as a result of widespread irrigation. It’s a different heat from Texas. 105* in the San Joaquin Valley is more bearable than 95* in Houston with its high humidity!
When my kids were little, I told everybody to come in for lunch because their sandwiches were ready and I had boysenberry pie for dessert. I fed them all, but when I was ready to serve dessert, my 3 year old didn't want any pie.
He watched all of us eating the pie and remarking how good it was with a worried look on his little face. Then he turned to his dad and asked, "Are poysenperries really poison, Daddy?"
He now has 4 kids of his own and is a nuclear scientist.
I think the same thing is happening in Ridgcrest, CA, I heard they have had cases of termites because of the change in the air.
LOL
Poor little guy! Does he now enjoy boysenberry pie?
No, that is just my SIL trying to make my mom (97) hysterical about something that is not happening. Mom had a new roof installed last month and transposed 2 numbers when whe wrote the check. I don’t know what my SIL’s motives are, but I’m getting a little upset about that.
In any case, it turns out that my mom owes the money because she shorted the roofing company when she sent the first chack. She doesn’t hear very well, so she didn’t understand the explanation over the phone.
No termites!
Absolutely!
I had a sil once who tried to manipulate mil..after we found out the reason, I approached her and asked if antiques were so important..she wouldn’t answer. She has proved to be a money grubber. Watch you Mom closley.
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