At least some good

[65284]

came from the late season blast of cold we experienced here in Mo.

That frigid front cost me all of my fruit, apricots already had fruit setting on and the apples, pears, and plums were in full bloom.

But, I was driving by a big box store about 10 days ago and I noticed a lot of trees in containers with the leaves brown, dead, and drooping. I stopped to look and thought I could see a little green starting to reappear.

The manager came along and said "I would make you a good deal on some of those", I told him there wasn't any good deal possible on a lot of dead sticks. He told me to pick through them and take all I wanted at $5.00 ea. and guaranteed them to live or my money back.

I loaded up on dwarf Moorpark apricot trees and a couple of different kinds of dwarf peach trees. When I looked this morning every one of them had leafed out and looked great.

Sure is nice to hit a lucky lick once in a while, kind of makes up for the loss of this year's crop.

[MELOC]

you just helped me remember happy times. when i was a kid, my dad and i used to ride to stores 20 miles away so he could save a few dollars on fruit trees, lol. he would check them on a weekly basis. it gave us something to do i guess, lol.

congratulations on your bargain!

[Christiaan]

Our harsh, by Western Washington standards, winter has severely limited the slug population. There even appear to be fewer rabbits that made it through. Of course they are making up for lost time.

[chris30523]

Our winter wasn't cold till spring so we lost the entire peach crop (don't count on any GA peaches this year) blueberries ,apples,lots of the wild fruits all black walnuts and pecans haven't looked at the hickories, all of the oak trees were in full bloom and just starting to leaf out. I don't know what the wild life will eat come fall the oaks still have not come back out.The poplars are starting to drop the black leaves and getting new. I haven't found any good yet.Maybe it killed alot of the yellow jackets that would be good ,didn't kill the flies or fire ants.