RE: wagons and carts


Oh my, and I thought I had it rough!

Lynda

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of cathy carpenter
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:20 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] wagons and carts


Forget walnuts, try being around a female Osage orange!
Cathy

On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 07:55 AM, Lynda Young wrote:

> Ah, Pam, be glad you only have pecans to worry about raining down.  In

> the fringes of our woods we have walnut trees.  This time of year we 
> have to be very careful where we work - those nuts hitting the ground 
> sound like hand grenades and I know they could do SERIOUS damage if 
> one of us got konked in the head by one.  They're truly dangerous.  
> We're going to have to move a Japanese maple planted well away from 
> one walnut
> - a lofty limb extends far enough out that the maple has had several 
> branches broken by falling nuts.  And to make matters worse, we aren't

> even getting any edible nuts from them!
>
> Lynda
> Zone 7 - West TN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
> Behalf Of Pamela J. Evans
> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 7:08 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] wagons and carts
>
>
> Amen Bonnie! Considering I garden 10 1/2 months a year and every day 
> (when it isn't raining) and do all my own lifting and toting and 
> whatnot, I should be a heck of a lot thinner than I am. I raked the 
> yard twice today and when that Norther blew in an hour or so ago, it 
> blew so many leaves off the trees and the roof, you can even tell I 
> did it. Picked up about 5000 more pecans too - green trug is half 
> full. When the
> wind picks up they come down like hail and beat the tar out of you. 
> Good
> thing I've got a hard head. This may be the last day I get to garden
in
> shorts. Bummer.

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