New Season = New Life
10Thursday 13 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The new season is heralded by so many ‘new’ things around the farm. Everywhere you look the trees are either in full blossom, have new shoots, new leaves or flowers budding.
The olive trees are getting ready to flower within the next few weeks. It all starts with tiny weeny little round buds. Many will be lost, that’s nature, but for now the trees look full.
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Plum trees however are much further ahead, and are all well in flower now, displaying a sea of brilliant white.
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Meanwhile, the clementine and orange trees are full of little green leaf shoots and tiny flower buds.
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But for a few of the tangerine and orange trees, it’s that weird time when they have new growth as well as fruit hanging there.
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Similarly, the winter lemon trees still have a few fruit left on them, but they are more advanced than the other citrus trees, and are just about to flower once again.
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Wish I could grow lemons I have lots in lemon and honey drinks. Too cold in Glasgow!
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Cold here too…. 😀
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You seem to way ahead of us here in New Jersey! We’re still dealing with this snowy, cold 2014 winter.
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Our daytime temps are around 20-22c (65-70F). We normally parallel places like Scotsdale AZ
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How about summer highs? On vacation in Scottsdale some yrs ago, we were at about 110f, very warm on that day!
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From mid June till early Sept we have a minimum of 40 (104F) every day, peaking at 46 (115F) for perhaps 10 days. Hottest night last year was 37 (98.6) at 1am 😀
That’s when we sleep outdoors under the stars on the top floor terrace – got a big blow-up bed on a corner 3 floors up which catches a gentle breeze
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🙂
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I too planted Basil, Lettuce, Broccoli and Tomato today
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Yum… too many bugs and red spider here for tomato unless you spray a lot, which I dont like, but dwarf cherry tomato grows pretty well from June till September
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Moms jealous
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