Ponds in Canada

[sissy]

I grow my own potato's like the colors you posted colleen purple yellow and white and you can grow them in a bushel basket and harvest for months .Even into the winter if you protect them with leaf mulch .I have potato's all winter

 

[callingcolleen1]

I love potatos, they are such a good food, with the skins on of course, that's the best part. I find the purple and these funny red skin with pinkish insides are less startchy and fill my tummy longer than the conventional white potatoes, those turn quick to starchy carbs in your tummy and make you hungry quicker.

Look at the weird corn we are harvesting right now, we paid good money for the seeds to this very ancient corn this spring. The corn was all colors, some stalks were dark purple, some where red. This corn is so ancient it only has 3 chromosomes and is considered a protein rather than a carb! Over the many years we have changed our food and most is now bad carbs or genetically modified.

This corn is for grounding into a maze and for making tortillas and flatbreads. The ancient people of north America lived very well on this staple food, unlike the people today, they all want the starchy genetically modified stuff that kills lab animals!

 

[MitchM]

I've seen those potatoes at the farmers markets in Calgary, too.
It's nice that you can grow your own stuff. Our growing season just isn't long enough here.
The moose "prune" the fruit trees and we just don't get enough heat for things to fully develop outdoors.
I'm going to have to make a more concerted effort to start things early in the greenhouse.
I'm a little hesitant to bring things from the outdoors into the greenhouse in the fall. Too many pest insects.
We made some crabapple jelly this past weekend from my mom's crabapple tree in Cochrane.

 

[sissy]

I leave my crabapples for the deer to eat in the winter .Bunnies squirrels and rabbits love them also

 

[callingcolleen1]

I too have lots of deer that will come eat the crab apples off my front lawn! It is nice to have them come up to the yard and do the work for me!

Large nets went over the ponds today, leaves starting to fall more and more. Today was a nice day by the pond, sheltered by the fence and house, and away from the horrible wind that blew up high on the tree tops!

These are the "recycled" nets that were hung over the unbrella and once was part of my bug free zone. These two nets had holes and tears but they still work good as pond nets. I left a few small openings under the net for birds to fly in and get water, and for the dogs too. I still have to cover the top pond tomorrow.

 

[addy1]

Good use for recycled nets! Our trees are starting to change colors, hoping my tomatoes red up before the plants freeze.

 

[callingcolleen1]

If I did not cover the pond, the leaves would cover everything and you would not be able to tell I had a pond, I get that many leaves each fall. These nets have smaller netting so even the little tiny seeds and small crab apples won't get threw this net!

 

[addy1]

Luckily the prevailing wind sends most of the leaves away from our pond, we do get some in, not that many from the two apple trees and one maple. The back yard trees don't really cause an issue.
I am fishing out apples from the shubbie tank all of the time, they fall right in. The deer, rabbits and whatever else eat them up.

 

[callingcolleen1]

After a few years the trees can really take over. That is what happened here. Then two doors down there is some Really big tall skyscraping maple I believe, and that tree alone covers all the back yards on this side of the block when it's leaves fall. That tree is just so big.... And so are the leaves!

 

[callingcolleen1]

today by the pond, swept the leaves off the cobbled path. Now the leaves are easy to get rid of cause they fall off the net on on the cobbled path and I can neatly sweep then all at nicely away. The water is getting very cold now and the fish are hanging near the pond bottom for the most part. I will have to find my thermometer and get a good reading for you, but I can say the water feels very cold on my hands. No chance of ice for a while yet, but for sure the water is cold and the fish are no longer fed food.

The halloween stuff is now gathering around the pond. Ghosts and gobblins were seen running at large today! No big killer frost yet, so I still have some green and few flowers left.

 

[j.w]

I just love coming here during Halloween season Colleen and looking at your wonderful decorations

 

[MitchM]

Well done as usual, Colleen!

 

[addy1]

Beautiful colleen! Way neat , we don't decorate nobody comes down our long dark driveway

 

[callingcolleen1]

Thanks everybody! So happy now that the strike is over, a sense of relief for sure, no more freezing outside in the cold in the wee hours of the morning!!
Now I can get back to the yard and pond and posting up a storm! Halloween my favorite time of the year!

 

[callingcolleen1]

I am not going to do anything too scary this year, things that looks too much like dead people and stuff, cause hubby does not want to get another glimce of death after last year. I got this big pumpkin man and will focus on pumpin stuff and happy cartoonish ghosts.

what do you think of my pumpkin man, he looks half tree half pumpkin and not like a dead man?