TOPIC: The upcoming year

Well,
Maybe some of those older products are still old standbys. I always had to do a little hand thinning even when I used a thinner.

I had Apples and Peaches when I was in that business. I had about 1500 Apples and about 4000-5000 Peaches. I also grew Grimes Golden. My mainstay at the beginning was Red and Golden Delicious. I also had Stark Supreme Staymared in large numbers. The Stayman Winesap was the most popular apple in the Southeast but it cracked badly, until Starks intoduced the variety I mentioned. All of these were on MM111, MM106, and East Malling7A. Later I began to grow some varieties on Bud 9. I would use a metal post to wire them to and prune somewhat like you do yours on the Tall Spindle System. They were in bearing the 2nd or third year with good production. I also sold a lot of Lodis, Rome Beautys, Jonathans,and Granny Smiths. Galas and Braeburns were beginning to be popular at the last of my growing experience.

Good luck this coming season with your upcoming crop.
Hugh

Good Evening Guys...

Had a Great Christmas and a Happy New Year so far.

Hope you are all doing the same.

All of this talk of Apples and now I don't have a single one here to eat. Guess I will have to make do with a Orange.

Looking forward to SPRING here too, and lots of 3 leafers, 2 prongs and some 3 prongs this year in my wild sim.

I got a Pic off of my back porch this morning, this is just before the sun broke up over the hill behind my house.

There is lots of seng in that hollow you can see just before that far hilltop.

Sometimes nature just makes me stop and say Wow !!!

TNhunter

It does me to my friend often times,beautiful pic.


TNhunter wrote:

Good Evening Guys...

Had a Great Christmas and a Happy New Year so far.

Hope you are all doing the same.

All of this talk of Apples and now I don't have a single one here to eat. Guess I will have to make do with a Orange.

Looking forward to SPRING here too, and lots of 3 leafers, 2 prongs and some 3 prongs this year in my wild sim.

I got a Pic off of my back porch this morning, this is just before the sun broke up over the hill behind my house.

There is lots of seng in that hollow you can see just before that far hilltop.

Sometimes nature just makes me stop and say Wow !!!

TNhunter

That's Beautiful Tn.
My son and I were in the woods the other day when it was spitting snow and sleet. He was going from here to there keeping his self occupied and then I made him come over and set down beside me. I asked him what he could hear and what he could see. He replied, nothing I don't think think, he is use to different sounds. I told him to listen to the snow and ice landing on the leaves, the tree branches cutting the wind as it passes by, the slight knocking sound of a piece of dangling bark back against the tree, the sight of white flakes passing in front of the dark back drop of trees and yes, the lack of sound from the human world. I try to teach him to pay attention to and enjoy the free and natural things in life. He's learning it's easy to lead a happy life when you do. I'm glad most here can appreciate the great things nature provides.

Hillhopper

Tn,
Thanks for taking the time to post such a beautiful picture. I know everyone has enjoyed it. It made me think of the gift that I was given just a few days ago by a new friend after he found out about the areas that I grow ginseng in. He sent me these beautiful photos from the area that I have been planting ginseng in and I asked him if I could show them on my website for friends to see. He does sell some of his work , but he gave permission to show them and since we have an abundance of time to just sit back and enjoy the beauty of the spots we have been in and where we live, I thought all of you might enjoy seeing these beautiful spots where I live. Just click on the pictures to enlarge them. Give them a second because they are very large images. I hope you enjoy his work.

Hugh
http://www.smokymountainflyguide.com/Choosing%20places%20to%20grow%20ginseng.htm

Hugh those are beautiful I love the lite purple back ground with the trees and th eeagle or is that a hawk

All of them are beautiful I do adore Gods Creation it lifts my spirit often

Best my friend

Billy.



Hugh Hartsell wrote:

Tn,
Thanks for taking the time to post such a beautiful picture. I know everyone has enjoyed it. It made me think of the gift that I was given just a few days ago by a new friend after he found out about the areas that I grow ginseng in. He sent me these beautiful photos from the area that I have been planting ginseng in and I asked him if I could show them on my website for friends to see. He does sell some of his work , but he gave permission to show them and since we have an abundance of time to just sit back and enjoy the beauty of the spots we have been in and where we live, I thought all of you might enjoy seeing these beautiful spots where I live. Just click on the pictures to enlarge them. Give them a second because they are very large images. I hope you enjoy his work.

Hugh
http://www.smokymountainflyguide.com/Choosing%20places%20to%20grow%20ginseng.htm

TNHunter- Beautiful photo... really looks like the mountains and the end of a fantastic day.

Happy birthday, Hugh.

2013 so far is showing up full of contention here. Long story, however all problems I presently have are centered around family.

I'm looking foward to seeing the seedlings in a few months.

Thanks guys for he nice comments on that picture.

Hugh - absolutely bueatiful mountain images. I wish a had the sound of one of those waterfalls that I could play at night while I sleep. I love that sound.

Hillhopper.. loved your description of your time with your son, teaching him how to really listen and see what all is happening in nature around him.

Kids now days are so in tune to TV, and Computers and Internet... and all of that in your face entertainment. They just don't know (Yet) how to enjoy the simple bueaty of nature.

I do my son the very same way. A couple years ago when he first started squirrel hunting... I could hear one barking or squealing a bit across the hollow from us and would ask him... do you hear that and he could not. He tried but it just would not register. This fall - different story. He was hearing them before I did.

I think a lot of folks now days don't appreciate nature because they are just to busy with other things to notice it.

That all reminds me Psalms 19...

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky proclaims the works of his hands.
Day after day they pour out speach, night after night they communicate knowledge.
There is no speach, there are no words, their voice is not heard.
Yet their message has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.

I think it is safe to say that King David often took at look at the morning sunrise and said Wow !!!

TNhunter