Re: Busy weekend

You're an angel, Cyndi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:38 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Busy weekend


> Kitty is neutered, fortunately. I suspect the owner of the house had it
> done, he did at least try to get all the strays fixed and get them vet
care
> when he could catch them. But kitty can't live outside at my house, we
have
> coyotes around too, and while I can pretty much guarantee my dogs good
> behavior inside I can't do it outside. He was obviously someone's pet at
one
> time; my sister says she knows he has been strictly outdoors for years,
but
> he sure acts like he's used to better things. If he sprays or has other
> problems I will figure out something...at the very worst I can build a
kitty
> condo outside where he'll be protected.
> Hopefully one of my sister's friends needs another cat.
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of kmrsy@netzero.net
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 12:36 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Busy weekend
>
> By 'proper cuts' I just meant simple things like angled and the right
> distance from the node. Shaping cuts are another matter, and you're
> right, difficult to decide. But if you cut some and remove crossers and
> in-growers, even if you don't do a perfect shaping job, I'm sure it will
> be fine.
>
>
> Your new-found kitty sounds a bit like my Woody. He had a very large
> head, half of it was scar tissue. He'd had a rough time of it after his
> owner died and her son turned him out. The last time I saw him he stayed
> with me most of the summer of 2004 and was mature and relaxed, but still
> getting into fights. Why in the world people don't get these animals
> neutered, I just don't understand. If your kitty is neutered, you may be
> able to just keep him as a mostly outdoors cat and he may prefer it.
>
>
> Kitty
>
> -- Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
> Yah, it's the "proper types of cuts" that makes me stand there
indecisively.
> I never feel like my trees are so obliging as to look like the
> illustrations. But like you say, I ended up figuring that doing nothing
was
> worse than doing a little. Same with the roses although they get so huge
> over the summer I end up just hacking everything down to waist height and
> then doing the selective cutting.
> I have two plums that I'm considering replacing. They are semi-dwarf Santa
> Rosa plums. One was damaged by insects and we had to remove almost half
the
> tree a while ago to get rid of the dead wood. The other I bought bare-root
> last year from Home Depot, but it barely grew. I was so happy with the
> advice and the peach tree I got from Bay Laurel Nursery I thought I might
> yank the plums and replace them with something better. But I'm bad at
> removing plants, I always think they deserve to live. I decided to give
them
> another year.
> I got a dwarf nectarine as a present and need a place to put it, always a
> problem when you need to irrigate everthing. And I have to protect the
> jujubes to see if the fruit is worthwhile, they are so thorny that if I
> don't like the fruit they are coming out. Didn't get even one jujube last
> year, I'm pretty sure the dogs ate them.
> Scar tissue, I didn't think about that, could be. Very furry kitty, two
> large even round lumps behind each ear, another round lump on one side
> beneath the lower jaw. He doesn't object if you press them. My husband
> pitched a fit when I brought up bringing kitty home a few weeks back, but
> has since grudgingly said I could if I wanted, still he is right it would
be
> uncomfortable for a while. Kitty has lived outdoors for years apparently
but
> is extremely friendly and very sedate. I told my sister if she could not
> find anyone else I would take him. She can't, her dogs would try to kill
him
> and he cannot live outside there, coyotes would get him. I already have
two
> indoor cats so my dogs know they must behave themselves. So we'll see.
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:35 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Busy weekend
>
> To my way of thinking, if you basically know what you are doing when
> pruning, make proper types of cuts and the like, you won't really do
> anything wrong.  It's possible to have done better, but you won't have
done
> any harm.
>
> As to the cat, I'd bet the odd lumps around the face are scar tissue from
> fights.
>
> Kitty
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:55 AM
> Subject: [CHAT] Busy weekend
>
>
> > You guys were sure busy on the keyboards over the weekend, I had over
150
> > messages waiting this morning. Our weather was gorgeous but I only got
out
> > in the garden one day. I did get the fruit trees pruned finally, they
> didn't
> > get it last year. I hate pruning - I am so fretful about doing it
"wrong"
> > that I end up frozen, unable to decide where to cut. But I gritted my
> teeth,
> > read my pruning book and then just cut away. Judiciously. I'm sure I
> didn't
> > take off as much as they needed. I have three peaches, two plums, two
> > apricots, and two jujubes. And I got about four pieces of fruit total
last
> > year, the trees just didn't bear well to start with and then the birds
and
> > my too-tall dog helping themselves to the rest while I wasn't paying
> > attention. Next weekend the roses, I missed pruning a lot of them last
> year
> > too.
> > I am helping my sister get an old house ready for sale, that used up all
> > Saturday, much to be done. Too bad it's two hours from where I live or
> > husband I might try to buy it and renovate. It's a 1900s Craftsman
> bungalow
> > and quite a lot of the interior is still beautifully intact. Oh
man...the
> > mahogany woodwork. The leaded glass cabinets. The hardwood floors.
> > Unfortunately there's also a major amount of work to be done - like all
> new
> > electrical not to mention plumbing. Alas my sister does not want the
> hassle
> > and I can't afford it so it goes for sale as is. I took some pelargonium
> > cuttings from the backyard (gotta mention gardening somewhere) and it
> looks
> > increasingly likely that I am going to end up with a cat too, the last
> > remnant of 20 or 30 feral cats that were being fed there. He is a very
> > friendly fellow but has some odd lumps around his face so if I end up
with
> > him I think a vet visit is first off. I wouldn't mind some advice from
> those
> > of you who often take in strays as to what precautions I should take.
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
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