Knives in the garden

[waynorth]

Stag Pruner

Arno Bernard and Charlie's Lambfoot

Harry

I met Arno at an Oregon Knife show, years ago when he was just getting started!!
I'll bet he doesn't have to travel so far to sell knives anymore - South Africa to Oregon!!! A pleasant man - I bought a couple knives from him, and a tusk keychain!! Still have the keychain!!! Nice to see our knives side-by-side!!!

 

[screened porch]

This one reminds me of those movies about summer camp counselors.

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Billy helping harvest some cherry tomatoes, none have yet made it to the house.

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Peppers, tomatoes and coriander/cilantro seed harvest today.

 

[draggat]

My first Violette de Bordeaux for the season.

Some varieties of figs have two crops, a main season that grows off the new growth and a break crop that grows off old growth. Breba's are never as good but they give you a little fig fix while waiting for the main autumn crop.

For non fig addicts, a fig is ready to pick when soft to touch and drooping. When picked, no latex should form where the stem is pulled away.

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I haven't been following GEC for quite a while, but that handle is an absolute stunner!

 

[Hoffmajo89]

It’s definitely too early for my bulb flowers to be sprouting, but we’ve had a warm streak and they’re just doing what they’re gonna do. We’ll see if they survive or not.

 

[RustyRick]

Moki Fish Owl LE

 

[Will Power]

Moki Fish Owl LE

Don't go dropping that in the dirt..you'll never find it

Wonderful looking Nat. Micarta, is that a re-cover (can't believe anybody has the skill to match Moki's exacting fit standards ) My Black version is looking very boring by contrast...

 

[Will Power]

Plum harvest a couple of seasons ago, this year is v.poor though. Lloyd English Jack

 

[RustyRick]

Don't go dropping that in the dirt..you'll never find it

Wonderful looking Nat. Micarta, is that a re-cover (can't believe anybody has the skill to match Moki's exacting fit standards ) My Black version is looking very boring by contrast...

Thank you. It's a Moki made special edition made for seki knife show I found that comes with a brown leather slip. My Pliant has a canvas belt thing. I was looking for the larger black one 110 which was sold out (or high priced) almost everywhere and I came across this and another with red maple scales. Both looked _amazing_ and I couldn't decide so I got both. I'm a wood guy but I think the brown micarta wins by a tad in person. It's kind of special. But tastes change so who knows I need to take better pic but here's all 3. Great knives

 

[Will Power]

Those Moki purr excellence, my money is still on that Nat Micarta, beautiful and functional

Thanks, Will

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Plum harvest a couple of seasons ago, this year is v.poor though. Lloyd English Jack

Poor seasonal conditions?

I work in Agriculture, mostly broad acre cropping and we’re looking at the worst harvest in a long while locally.

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

12 figs to transfer into the soil. I was collecting fig varieties until the kids decided to remove all the tags identifying each variety. A know 3 or 4 for sure, the rest who knows.

Robert Klaas pulling its weight today

 

[Jolipapa]

English lesson. n° 12 :
My taylor is rich My knife is small and my tomatoes are good.

 

[Will Power]

Jolipapa 'Olympian Tomatoes' there Alain

Hatchet_Jack The Plums suffered due to 3 week drought in May which was cold&windy, my Pear tree and Juniper both died plus some conifers as the winter was really cold -37C but now we've had 35 days of torrential rain every day in July and still going strong this month, terrible.

Figs are a nice looking tree and a fine fruit, yours will be yielding soon despite child sabotage

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Jolipapa 'Olympian Tomatoes' there Alain

Hatchet_Jack The Plums suffered due to 3 week drought in May which was cold&windy, my Pear tree and Juniper both died plus some conifers as the winter was really cold -37C but now we've had 35 days of torrential rain every day in July and still going strong this month, terrible.

Figs are a nice looking tree and a fine fruit, yours will be yielding soon despite child sabotage

-37! I can’t imagine that level of cold. Is there anything you can do to protect them? Are any trees suited to those conditions?

I got figs off most of them last year, hoping I can ID a few more when they fruit in autumn. Panache should be easy with its stripes, ronde de Bordeaux is one of my favourites and I’m hoping I’ll recognise it. My absolute favourite is the black Tuscan, it’s one I identified but I damaged the roots removing it from the pot. Hopefully it recovers.

 

[Rupestris]

An old Buck Creek that I rescued from an old tackle box years ago. The main blade was broken and looked as though someone took it to a belt sander at one point.

 

[Will Power]

Hatchet_Jack -37C is unusual, although in another town I was working in it got down to -42C one winter, not a good time to be walking and cars don't like it too much either (electric ones probably would just about get down the street before a recharge...) You can protect young plantings by putting fir branches around them as insulation but for the main, established stuff has to take its chance which is good if the snow cover is deep enough. Much depends on species, beautiful evergreens such as Laurels, Holly, Viburnum etc which abound in much of Europe are non starters here, evergreens like that freeze on the leaf and die back fast, I've tried Holly but it's never got past 3 seasons and weak growth, much is to do with the dark- since between Nov- Mid January it's about 4 hours twilight a 'day'. This spring's drought, cold temp and sunshine played havoc. Some years can be much milder though, similar in Australia I suppose with extreme summers or droughts, it varies.

You grow Peaches or Apricots where you are or nuts?

Crop of Gages and Plums from the garden, so even in the Arctic fruits will grow

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Hatchet_Jack -37C is unusual, although in another town I was working in it got down to -42C one winter, not a good time to be walking and cars don't like it too much either (electric ones probably would just about get down the street before a recharge...) You can protect young plantings by putting fir branches around them as insulation but for the main, established stuff has to take its chance which is good if the snow cover is deep enough. Much depends on species, beautiful evergreens such as Laurels, Holly, Viburnum etc which abound in much of Europe are non starters here, evergreens like that freeze on the leaf and die back fast, I've tried Holly but it's never got past 3 seasons and weak growth, much is to do with the dark- since between Nov- Mid January it's about 4 hours twilight a 'day'. This spring's drought, cold temp and sunshine played havoc. Some years can be much milder though, similar in Australia I suppose with extreme summers or droughts, it varies.

You grow Peaches or Apricots where you are or nuts?

Crop of Gages and Plums from the garden, so even in the Arctic fruits will grow

It’s a fascinating part of the world you’re in, i find the lack of daylight hard to comprehend. Even in winter which we’re in now the shortest day is about 9 hours.

Aside from hunting my second passion is gardening. I live on a couple of acres, we had nothing when we moved here but in 6 years I’ve planted apples, peaches, plums, pomegranate, feijoa, persimmon, cherries, pistachio, almond, lemon, lime, orange, mandarin, blueberries, blackberries, boisen berries, raspberries, stawberries, guava, kiwi fruit, mulberry and of course figs. I bolder the ones that have produced so far.

The citrus was heavily damaged by some pet sheep we had so despite being 4-5 years old they’ve not yet produced. I also had a loquat which the sheep killed. I’ve tried on four occasions to grow avocado but our winters are too cold and summers too hot. My friend has had more success than I but his is in a very sheltered area away from frost.

Our extremes are typically -5C in winter and 45C.

Beautiful plums and a beautiful knife my friend