March Prepping

I forgot to post yesterday, oh my! I guess all the Super Tuesday excitement....lol Anyway, what does, everyone have planned for this month? We have had awesome weather! We are already in the 60's and 70's, my daffodils are flowering, my peach and plum trees are blossoming. This is the first year for the plum trees, so hoping for plums this year.

I think I have everything planned by ripening for our area of what I want to plant now as far as the fruit goes. For my future planning of having free fruit for the summer. Went on the OSU extension website to check when things ripen. Also had to research which brands are self-pollinating. Going tree shopping this weekend.

Cherry tree/Stella ripens June 5-20 need to get
Plum trees 2 Methley ripen June 15-25 have
Peach tree ripen July have
Apple tree (some ripen in August/some September) need to get
Grapes ripen Aug 20 need to get
Pomegranite late summer/fall need to get

I've been on a planting kick too, have strawberries going, and two types of  cucumbers. Still need to get my mini tree. I keep putting it off haha We are finally getting weather in the 70s now and should be expecting rain next week. Otherwise, pet preps and more OTC things. Probably some allergy pills included.

I'm concentrating on getting a new area under cultivation for next summer. I'm clearing an area that's fenced and measures 8m x 22m. I'm just removing the tall weeds and then I'm going to cover it in cow poo and then a woven weed suppressant fabric. I'll weight that down with bricks and just leave it until October when we can start our spring planting. By then it should be full of worms and be weed free. Or that's the plan anyway!

They are expensive here too. $20 a kilo this year. I'm putting in 2 more of the same cherries this winter. There's someone not far from us who has an old tunnel house frame that the plastic has long since vanished from, and he's covered it with netting and grows 6 cherries in it. He has enough to sell them to passersby.

My daughter is coming home from college this weekend with her truck, she has a full size pickup, I just have an SUV and a small pickup, so I have been waiting on her truck to transport trees. So I will definitely be getting some trees tomorrow.

I got 2 semi-dwarf apple trees and got them planted this weekend. I tried to get cherry trees too, but they didn't have the kind I was looking for.

I have baby plums on my two trees this year, I am so excited! I planted them 2 years ago and this is the first year they are producing fruit. I hope they do well. My peach tree is still loaded with blossoms, so it will do well. I went to Health Fair and was given a tomato plant, so I guess I will be planting that also.

Do you guys recommend any particular brand of tazer or pepper spray? I caught a maintenence worker here after business hours with his hand in my laundry *unmentionables and whatnot*. He questioned me about whether my laundry was my laundry and it is because my laundry was the only laundry left in the room. He hurried away because another woman and her child came to check their mail, but now I feel violated in a way by this and will report him tomorrow. I'm just disgusted and I'm not sure if he took anything of mine yet and I'm folding half wet clothing because I ran out of quarters and have no idea how long he was in my stuff. :/

Thank you for your response, FluMom. I actually didn't know about the capcasin level thing. I originally thought they'd be similar to each other, but vary in potency. I'm going in as soon as they open in the morning. I just feel so grossed out by it all that I lost my appetite. I have a bar thing that goes on the door knob, but I also have a sliding glass balcony that needs something too. Not sure what to get for that. I wish they had chairs or something in the laundry rooms because my legs aren't very good to stand for over an hour and almost a half. I'll try to stay safe, FluMom. Thanks for the well wishes.

I sympathise!

Hi KiwiMum, thank you for your response. I had never heard of a panic app before, I'm going to look into that. I think my phone has an emergency mode, but no idea how that works. I put in my report to the office today and said that I hope they don't have access to my apartment because I felt legitimately unsafe. Considering I am now wondering if the maintenance person who fixed my door and window is the same person who was in my laundry. I should change those too and then just switch it out when they have to do inspections.


Oh wow, Technophobe, that's scary! :o

Hmm that's a good idea, Penham. I kinda wanna set up cameras in the front and balcony parts. I'm on contract until July, and now am considering moving elsewhere because of this.

Yes, cameras are a good idea, I have been considering that myself, just for the added security.

There are a lot of creepy people out there. Many years ago, I rented a house and I did laundry and would hang the laundry outside because there was a clothesline. Several times I noticed my panties were missing off the line. So, I had to quit hanging out my laundry, but then I had to wonder who the weirdo was????