I just have to say that it looks like I'm about to take ownership of a
little 1922 adobe cottage in NM (growing zone 6) that has mature fruit
trees: 1 peach, 1 pear, 1 apricot and plenty of room for all the garden I'd
ever want.

This is my dream, I'm 61, along and have never owned a house. Pray for me
and for the future jams, jellys, sauces, tasty dried morsels and...

I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll know within a week.

Anna

In article 42eOc.5985$Mr3.2326@trndny08, "Anna"
wrote:

I just have to say that it looks like I'm about to take ownership of
a little 1922 adobe cottage in NM (growing zone 6) that has mature
fruit trees: 1 peach, 1 pear, 1 apricot and plenty of room for all
the garden I'd ever want.

This is my dream, I'm 61, along and have never owned a house. Pray
for me and for the future jams, jellys, sauces, tasty dried morsels
and...

I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll know within a week.


Anna

Fingers and toes are crossed. Enjoy your new money pit, Anna! If it's
not one thing, it's another. :-)
--
-Barb, www.jamlady.eboard.com An update on 7/22/04.

In article 42eOc.5985$Mr3.2326@trndny08, "Anna"
wrote:

I just have to say that it looks like I'm about to take ownership of
a little 1922 adobe cottage in NM (growing zone 6) that has mature
fruit trees: 1 peach, 1 pear, 1 apricot and plenty of room for all
the garden I'd ever want.

This is my dream, I'm 61, along and have never owned a house. Pray
for me and for the future jams, jellys, sauces, tasty dried morsels
and...

I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll know within a week.


Anna

Fingers and toes are crossed. Enjoy your new money pit, Anna! If it's
not one thing, it's another. :-)
--
-Barb, www.jamlady.eboard.com An update on 7/22/04.

In article 42eOc.5985$Mr3.2326@trndny08, "Anna"
wrote:

I just have to say that it looks like I'm about to take ownership of
a little 1922 adobe cottage in NM (growing zone 6) that has mature
fruit trees: 1 peach, 1 pear, 1 apricot and plenty of room for all
the garden I'd ever want.

This is my dream, I'm 61, along and have never owned a house. Pray
for me and for the future jams, jellys, sauces, tasty dried morsels
and...

I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll know within a week.


Anna

Fingers and toes are crossed. Enjoy your new money pit, Anna! If it's
not one thing, it's another. :-)
--
-Barb, www.jamlady.eboard.com An update on 7/22/04.

Anna wrote:
I just have to say that it looks like I'm about to take ownership of a
little 1922 adobe cottage in NM (growing zone 6) that has mature fruit
trees: 1 peach, 1 pear, 1 apricot and plenty of room for all the garden I'd
ever want.

This is my dream, I'm 61, along and have never owned a house. Pray for me
and for the future jams, jellys, sauces, tasty dried morsels and...

I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll know within a week.

Anna


If I weren't long married (44 years) I would be interested in a young
woman like you with a fruit orchard. Please send pictures of fruit
trees. (Sort of a take off on the old joke about the man wanting to meet
a woman with a bass boat, please send picture of boat.} Sounds like what
a lot of us would really like to have.

I have a pluot, a plum, a peach, and a pear tree. Not to mention a Fuyu
persimmon and a loquat tree plus several rabbiteye blueberry bushes. All
of this on a city lot in USDA Zone 9b where the heat index today is 106F.

We put up seven quarts of pear slices in light syrup a little bit ago.
Pears came from the thinnings of a friends tree as ours aren't ready
yet. Still have two five gallon buckets of Kieffer pears to go. Looks to
me like pear sauce, pear butter, pear mincemeat, and pear conserve.

Good luck with your house Anna you're in for a treat in maintaining a
house that old, hope it's in good shape.

George

Anna wrote:
I just have to say that it looks like I'm about to take ownership of a
little 1922 adobe cottage in NM (growing zone 6) that has mature fruit
trees: 1 peach, 1 pear, 1 apricot and plenty of room for all the garden I'd
ever want.

This is my dream, I'm 61, along and have never owned a house. Pray for me
and for the future jams, jellys, sauces, tasty dried morsels and...

I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll know within a week.

Anna


If I weren't long married (44 years) I would be interested in a young
woman like you with a fruit orchard. Please send pictures of fruit
trees. (Sort of a take off on the old joke about the man wanting to meet
a woman with a bass boat, please send picture of boat.} Sounds like what
a lot of us would really like to have.

I have a pluot, a plum, a peach, and a pear tree. Not to mention a Fuyu
persimmon and a loquat tree plus several rabbiteye blueberry bushes. All
of this on a city lot in USDA Zone 9b where the heat index today is 106F.

We put up seven quarts of pear slices in light syrup a little bit ago.
Pears came from the thinnings of a friends tree as ours aren't ready
yet. Still have two five gallon buckets of Kieffer pears to go. Looks to
me like pear sauce, pear butter, pear mincemeat, and pear conserve.

Good luck with your house Anna you're in for a treat in maintaining a
house that old, hope it's in good shape.

George

Anna wrote:
I just have to say that it looks like I'm about to take ownership of a
little 1922 adobe cottage in NM (growing zone 6) that has mature fruit
trees: 1 peach, 1 pear, 1 apricot and plenty of room for all the garden I'd
ever want.

This is my dream, I'm 61, along and have never owned a house. Pray for me
and for the future jams, jellys, sauces, tasty dried morsels and...

I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll know within a week.

Anna


If I weren't long married (44 years) I would be interested in a young
woman like you with a fruit orchard. Please send pictures of fruit
trees. (Sort of a take off on the old joke about the man wanting to meet
a woman with a bass boat, please send picture of boat.} Sounds like what
a lot of us would really like to have.

I have a pluot, a plum, a peach, and a pear tree. Not to mention a Fuyu
persimmon and a loquat tree plus several rabbiteye blueberry bushes. All
of this on a city lot in USDA Zone 9b where the heat index today is 106F.

We put up seven quarts of pear slices in light syrup a little bit ago.
Pears came from the thinnings of a friends tree as ours aren't ready
yet. Still have two five gallon buckets of Kieffer pears to go. Looks to
me like pear sauce, pear butter, pear mincemeat, and pear conserve.

Good luck with your house Anna you're in for a treat in maintaining a
house that old, hope it's in good shape.

George

Anna wrote:

I just have to say that it looks like I'm about to take ownership of a
little 1922 adobe cottage in NM (growing zone 6) that has mature fruit
trees: 1 peach, 1 pear, 1 apricot and plenty of room for all the garden I'd
ever want.
This is my dream, I'm 61, along and have never owned a house. Pray for me
and for the future jams, jellys, sauces, tasty dried morsels and...
I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll know within a week.
Anna

Welcome home, NM is where my heart really lies. But Ah'm a Texan naow. How
about planting a quince? The red flowers are stunning and the fruit is very
versatile. I've learned alot about quinces this last year. If I wasn't married
.... shoot, we could be friends now anyway. I'm only one area code away.
Edrena in El Paso

Anna wrote:

I just have to say that it looks like I'm about to take ownership of a
little 1922 adobe cottage in NM (growing zone 6) that has mature fruit
trees: 1 peach, 1 pear, 1 apricot and plenty of room for all the garden I'd
ever want.
This is my dream, I'm 61, along and have never owned a house. Pray for me
and for the future jams, jellys, sauces, tasty dried morsels and...
I hope, I hope, I hope. I'll know within a week.
Anna

Welcome home, NM is where my heart really lies. But Ah'm a Texan naow. How
about planting a quince? The red flowers are stunning and the fruit is very
versatile. I've learned alot about quinces this last year. If I wasn't married
.... shoot, we could be friends now anyway. I'm only one area code away.
Edrena in El Paso

George,
I've just seen these in the stores... what IS a pluot??? Is it a cross
between a PLum & apricOT???
What is the flavor (and don't you dare say "uhmmm similar to chicken"..)
grin

Jerry

George Shirley wrote:
I have a pluot, a plum, a peach, and a pear tree. Not to mention a Fuyu
persimmon and a loquat tree plus several rabbiteye blueberry bushes. All
of this on a city lot in USDA Zone 9b where the heat index today is 106F.
Good luck with your house Anna you're in for a treat in maintaining a
house that old, hope it's in good shape.

George

George,
I've just seen these in the stores... what IS a pluot??? Is it a cross
between a PLum & apricOT???
What is the flavor (and don't you dare say "uhmmm similar to chicken"..)
grin

Jerry

George Shirley wrote:
I have a pluot, a plum, a peach, and a pear tree. Not to mention a Fuyu
persimmon and a loquat tree plus several rabbiteye blueberry bushes. All
of this on a city lot in USDA Zone 9b where the heat index today is 106F.
Good luck with your house Anna you're in for a treat in maintaining a
house that old, hope it's in good shape.

George

Jerry wrote:

George,
I've just seen these in the stores... what IS a pluot??? Is it a cross
between a PLum & apricOT???
What is the flavor (and don't you dare say "uhmmm similar to chicken"..)

:-)

They taste like a plum. Some are larger than plums, definitely larger
than apricots. My favorite are the "dinosaur egg" variety, (don't know
if that's just a name or an actual var.). They don't seem to have the
"bite" you get in the plum just below the skin, and the skin seems
thinner.

Jerry wrote:

George,
I've just seen these in the stores... what IS a pluot??? Is it a cross
between a PLum & apricOT???
What is the flavor (and don't you dare say "uhmmm similar to chicken"..)

:-)

They taste like a plum. Some are larger than plums, definitely larger
than apricots. My favorite are the "dinosaur egg" variety, (don't know
if that's just a name or an actual var.). They don't seem to have the
"bite" you get in the plum just below the skin, and the skin seems
thinner.

Yup, cross between plum and apricot. 75% plum, 25% apricot. There is
also an aprium which is crossed the other way 75/25 apricot/plum. The
pluot requires an Asian plum to cross pollinate and I have a Bruce. The
aprium requires an apricot to pollinate and apricots don't grow this far
south. Got my pluot from Stark in Missouri and it hasn't borne fruit yet.

Tastes, to me, like a plum with overtones of apricot. I have to buy them
at the supermarket and those come out of California. Nothing at all like
chicken. Chicken tastes a little like rattlesnake to me. VBG

George

Jerry wrote:
George,
I've just seen these in the stores... what IS a pluot??? Is it a cross
between a PLum & apricOT???
What is the flavor (and don't you dare say "uhmmm similar to chicken"..)
grin

Jerry

George Shirley wrote:
I have a pluot, a plum, a peach, and a pear tree. Not to mention a Fuyu

persimmon and a loquat tree plus several rabbiteye blueberry bushes.
All of this on a city lot in USDA Zone 9b where the heat index today
is 106F.
Good luck with your house Anna you're in for a treat in maintaining a
house that old, hope it's in good shape.

George

Yup, cross between plum and apricot. 75% plum, 25% apricot. There is
also an aprium which is crossed the other way 75/25 apricot/plum. The
pluot requires an Asian plum to cross pollinate and I have a Bruce. The
aprium requires an apricot to pollinate and apricots don't grow this far
south. Got my pluot from Stark in Missouri and it hasn't borne fruit yet.

Tastes, to me, like a plum with overtones of apricot. I have to buy them
at the supermarket and those come out of California. Nothing at all like
chicken. Chicken tastes a little like rattlesnake to me. VBG

George

Jerry wrote:
George,
I've just seen these in the stores... what IS a pluot??? Is it a cross
between a PLum & apricOT???
What is the flavor (and don't you dare say "uhmmm similar to chicken"..)
grin

Jerry

George Shirley wrote:
I have a pluot, a plum, a peach, and a pear tree. Not to mention a Fuyu

persimmon and a loquat tree plus several rabbiteye blueberry bushes.
All of this on a city lot in USDA Zone 9b where the heat index today
is 106F.
Good luck with your house Anna you're in for a treat in maintaining a
house that old, hope it's in good shape.

George