He was severely malnourished and was missing most of his feathers they have mostly grown back. Both of these birds just light up my day. They seem happy and I am so glad I found them.
If you ever do consider a bird, think about a rescue or rehome! The windows are washed and DH has the yard raked for about the 12th time, the gardens are cleaned and over tulip bulbs and some hyacinth bulbs are planted. All the hardscape is in and protected, as are the potted plants I am overwintering. Now, I just need to cover the roses, mums and hydrangea for the hard winter ahead.
It's a good thing, cuz we are suppose to get our first snow early - on Mon. I best get some firewood this weekend. Jean, you must be the upper Midwest too. I too want to get some of my outdoor lights up this weekend or it may be too late. Make sure I have enough checks for the Gifts. Yes, we are old and shop for only one gift each for the daughters and grands. So I am ignoring Christmas for now, since I have already made reservations for several of my groups.
In the meantime, we will make plans to host our small family for Thanksgiving. The house is ready, since I still entertain some every month and keep it pretty much cleaned and in order. I do plan to clean the fridge good tho and steam the packed carpet where I moved furniture in the study.
I plan to do some more closet purging. I still need to place some on line orders for some accent tables and table lamps for the living room I am nearing completion. I may paint an accent wall in the study - I know they are of style, but it is my house. I have begun putting out the winter linens and we are already enjoying the cozy throws. Besides the holidays, I have our maintenance guy coming to clean gutters and the contractor to measure for additional bookshelves and our geek to work on the computers.
I selected the curtain fabric and must get those made am trying to select an area rug, seating and maybe a table and shelves with casters for use beside my computer. Until I can get all our workers going, I am cleaning out files and shelves, so I know what additional space I might need.
Oh yes, I used to do an enormous amount of decorating, so I started putting out a lot less last year. So this year I want to be very thoughtful about which I put out, so I can rotate my favs and photograph those each year, put them in an album on the coffee table during the holiday, so we can look at them, enjoy and remember.
Sorry about the length of this. I tried to get it all down together to keep me on target. Happy holidays to all of you. I 'm in zone 8a. Outdoors, I have 2 Russian pomegranate trees, 5 blueberry bushes of multiple varieties, one Italian fig tree, one compact raspberry bush, a monstrous 40'x10' blackberry bramble and one key lime tree that may not survive this winter due to unusually cold temperatures.
I knew I was pushing the envelope, planting it outside in this zone, but I was optimistic. Indoors, I am growing one key lime tree and one Meyer lemon tree. By: Contributor. How to Refresh Dried Fruits: Raisins. How to Keep Pomegranate Fresh.
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If you are doing this for indoor fruit, you may wish to purchase a grafted container kumquat tree from a nursery instead. Cut back the roots by 1 in 2. Carefully remove the tree from its pot and break apart the soil. Use a gardening knife to slice away 1 inch 2. Replace the soil or add more compost to enhance the nutrient content. Use neem oil to prevent spider mites and other pests.
Mix the neem oil with water according to the instructions on the packaging. Stir your solution together so it is thoroughly mixed. Use a spray bottle to apply the neem oil to the leaves of your plant. Spray once at the start of the growing season and check for pests every 2 weeks after. If there is an infestation, spray the plant again. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered.
Kumquats can also be grafted onto another tree to make different flavors or to make hybrids like Limequats, Lemonquats, or Orangequats.
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Yes No. Cookies make wikiHow better. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy. In my greenhouse, I am reminded daily of what people grow and eat in China and the Southern Hemisphere, for under the protection of cold glass, many types of Pomegranates and small citrus ripen.
Green Pomegranates from Iran, Persimmon trees bear fruit and citrons and Lemons bear fruit for candy and tea. Mixed citrus in the December greenhouse. Meyer Lemons, growing in a large terra cotta pot are the tastiest winter harvest fruit we have. One of my favorite harvests in the winter months are Meyer Lemons, which blossoms for me in July, but bear fruit for the entire winter, starting in November. My trees are still small, but even at their small stature, I can get around 60 fragrant lemons, enough for tea and for my favorite use — in a spritzer made with mineral water and pomegranate juice and sometimes a dash of Pims, Campari.
Indian or Hong Kong Kumquats or Fortunella hindsii, are the tiniest citrus fruit one can grow. They are nearly the size of a pea and contain up to three full sized seeds. First, the name. In Mandarin, a similar sounding name translates literally as large tangerine orange. For many people and cultures, Kumquats are not unusual at all.
This Holiday season pick some up, not for decoration, but to eat. You may think that it would be easy to obtain a Kumquat plant, since the fruit is so seedy, one can easilly assume that all one must do is to plant a seed. Yes, it is fun to grow citrus from seed, it reminds many of us of childhood experiments with grapefruits and oranges, but your results will be handicapped since most citrus will grow fine foliage plants from seed, few will ever bloom or bear fruit.
Even if a kumquat grown from seed blossoms, the genus is challenging to grow well since seed grown plants frequently have problems forming decent root growth, they are grafted onto more root-aggressive species. The truth is that most citrus that are seed grown are at least 15 years away from opening their first blossom, so if you are interested in purchasing a kumquat that will bear fruit, it must be grafted.
Grafted plants ensure that you will get loads of blossoms on a small plant, and, it ensures that you will get a proper named variety. Something I never fully appreciated until one January while visiting California, Joe Nuccio took me out back to a fruit laden Kumquat tree at their Camellia nursery in Pasadena, and handed me some fruit straight from the tree, warm from the winter sun, I popped the fruit into my mouth and was blown away by the flavor of the skin, which tasted like orange blossom oil, while being both tangy and sweet with just enough bitterness.
I have tasted nothing like it since. Our supermarkets near Boston carry baskets of hybrid Kumquats around the Holidays, but few people buy them for anything other than decoration, but I urge you to try the simple Kumquat as an edible fruit. Let them come to room temperature, and try biting into it.
The blossoms on Kumquats appear in summer, and are as fragrant as orange blossoms. Just watch out for the thorns when leaning in for a sniff.
Kumquats are native to China, and they were introduced to the west in by British plant explorer Robert Fortune. Included in the genus Citrus until when plant taxonomists reclassified them into their own genus Fortunella after Robert Fortune.
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