Tag Archives: trees
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Blue Skies of Springtime
3Monday 21 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Macro Monday: Fig leaf bud
5Monday 28 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Autumn colours, in Winter
12Saturday 26 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
It’s officially past mid-winter…. yeah right! Our trees are only just shedding their leaves, as our weird weather continues unabated …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory (III)
5Tuesday 17 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My third Weekly Photo Challenge entry is all about is perseverance towards uncertain victory! Or just plain old digging a hole for a …
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Avenue of Palms
9Thursday 12 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In the centre of İzmir, the western Turkish city we visited for a family wedding recently, is a central park …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place (IV)
5Tuesday 13 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is another of my ‘happy places’… and that …
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Logs of the future?
7Saturday 19 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Down in the lower olive grove, we have a rather tall lonesome pine that is growing at a weird, almost …
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Olives Trees ‘Off Season’
8Thursday 10 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Olive trees tend to produce a crop every two years, more or less. Some trees are a bit weird, producing …
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Lemon tree is still alive, just…
9Tuesday 11 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Remember this lemon tree that was almost wiped out during our much colder than normal winter? Well, this is what happened a few …
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Citrus Tree Care – Lime paint (2 of 2)
8Sunday 21 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Painting the trees with slaked lime and copper sulphate takes time. I have to paint the trunk, from the dirt level, …
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Citrus Tree Care – Lime paint (1 of 2)
12Saturday 20 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Continuing on with the repair and care programme for our citrus trees… this year it’s time to ‘paint’ the trees! …
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Dr. Spike and the poorly trees
13Thursday 11 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
With some 250 trees, there are always the odd casualty or two each season; the lemon trees for example. Olive trees are …
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Fruit: late but worth it
11Thursday 11 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Winter was far colder than usual. It lasted longer, then spring was late, and so is summer. Basically, the weather …
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Citrus fruit – survival of the fittest
9Wednesday 03 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The weird weather continues… It’s early June, and we have the potential for rain this week; practically unheard of. It …
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Stumped
10Tuesday 02 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Seem a long nine or so years since we first moved village, and took on the land that later became the farm …
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Macro Monday: Aphids
11Monday 01 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This weeks entry for Macro Monday is all about those little things in life, namely aphids… Much of inner garden …
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Young fruit
8Saturday 16 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As we move into summer, the farm is starting to quieten down after the departure of a million or so …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped (I)
11Friday 15 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken in our village here in southwest Türkiye, and …
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Lemon recovery – the senior trees
8Thursday 14 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
After the recovery success of the ‘little’ lemon tree, we’ve had to wait to see how the larger trees ended …
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Ten images of late springtime…
16Saturday 09 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Springtime is a time of big changes and long hours of hard work. In the orchards it has been a …
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Lemon recovery – result
15Sunday 26 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In the ongoing saga of the lemon trees versus the unexpected and rare cold snap this past winter, we have seen mixed results. …
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Orchard in bloom
7Thursday 23 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The citrus orchards are in full bloom right now. Whilst I can’t hear myself think for the noise of a …
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Citrus tree health update
18Wednesday 22 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Following the really cold snap of -5C (23F) we experienced for a few nights over winter, many of the fruit trees had …
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Bee photography
22Thursday 16 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Like most farms and gardens, the annual chores are pretty much same old, year in year out, so trying to …
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They call this weeding…?
11Tuesday 14 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A spot of light gardening, they said…. Pull a few weeds, they said…. After the rains of winter and the …
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Macro Monday: Pomegranate
1Monday 13 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Hope you all like it 🙂 . . Looks like some underwater plant, but in …
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New life: Olive trees
3Saturday 11 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The olive trees are starting up once again for a new season ! . In early springtime, most the leaves …
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After the burn-up…
6Thursday 09 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
After a good old burn-up of the farm waste (branches from mass tree pruning etc), there are still uses for what’s …
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New life: Fig trees
7Wednesday 08 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
After looking at the state of the lemon trees, here’s some good and bad news regarding our fig trees. We …
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Annual burn-up time
14Tuesday 07 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Once or twice a year I have a rather large burn-up of all the cuttings, pruning, tree felling and general …
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New life: Lemon trees
15Tuesday 07 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Time is marching on, and as we move well into spring in southwest Türkiye, the orchard is starting to show …
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Clementine flowers – won’t be long
10Thursday 02 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Along with new leaves appearing in the clementine orchards, little flower buds are getting ready too. In a couple of weeks …
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Macro Monday: ‘New Pommie Leaves’
2Monday 30 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday These are some of the first leaves on the pomegranate bushes this year. …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh (IV)
9Monday 23 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the freshness of new life as seen …
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Macro Monday: ‘First Clementine leaves’
4Monday 23 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday The new season and the new leaves are starting to appear in the …
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Plum Trees
4Saturday 21 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Our plum trees are looking so pretty this year! . . . . . . . .
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Vultures, hmm….
2Thursday 19 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I was sat outside on a rock this morning taking a break from the farm chores, watching the birds up …
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Lemon recovery
14Wednesday 11 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Although two of the lemon trees look pretty much ‘gone’, and the largest is still in panic shut-down mode, we …
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My ‘little’ sprayer…
9Sunday 08 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Remember this year I hired the tractor and pump for the main orchard copper sulphate tree spraying? Well it saved me …
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Citrus Tree Care – Copper Sulphate
10Tuesday 03 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
With the citrus trees afflicted with a fair degree of moss, lichen crustaceans, and general leaf decay, the best treatment by far …
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Macro Monday: ‘First Blossom’
9Monday 02 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday Took this shot five minutes ago…. the first blossom of spring, with the …
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Citrus Tree Care – Shoot Pruning
15Thursday 26 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Pruning of the citrus trees is really only necessary every three years, when you can end up cutting large branches to …
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Trees in Need of Some TLC
15Tuesday 24 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As posted a while ago, the citrus trees have had a tough year, with a long hot dry summer that went …
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Flower Friday – Lemon Tree
11Friday 20 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
With a normally quite short and mild winter, some of our fruit trees get a bit confused, with new flowers …
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Them Poor Lemon Trees
14Tuesday 10 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As I posted recently, we had a short sharp cold cold snap where temperatures dropped to -5C (23F) on a few nights, which is …
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A Spot of Winter Pruning
5Friday 30 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Winter pruning is yet another long-lasting task to undertake on the farm, but I don’t mind it really, and it’s …
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Iced Lemons?
9Thursday 29 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Icy weather plays havoc with fruit farming, but the worst affected tend to be lemons I have found. Their internal …
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Ice Damaged Fruit Trees
9Thursday 22 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The problem with a cold snap, is that whilst it looks nice and wintry with snow in the mountains that …
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Weird Trees n Stuff
7Thursday 25 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Need some loofers for your bathroom? . Or how about this piece of sculpted nature? Just looks like a cake …
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500 year old olive tree
24Tuesday 04 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
wow We have some 50 olive trees here on the farm, and one is probably over 150 yrs old I …
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