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NickB79

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16. Gonna hit 90 this week in Minnesota
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 09:59 AM
Sep 2024

And it's mid-Sept.

On the plus side, I'll be helping my friend harvest his experimental pawpaw orchard here. Pawpaws are a southern fruit, but now it's warm enough to grow them up here, along with persimmons and peaches. I'm propagating and selling seedlings from southern species for an assisted climate migration project, to ready our forests for what's coming.

Got a bald cypress, pecan and tupelo swamp (like you'd find in Louisiana) already in the works. Lots of saplings 2-3' tall growing well. Hopefully I'm long dead before it gets alligators though 🤣

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Hottest summer on record and Elessar Zappa Sep 2024 #10
Beat me to the post! raccoon Sep 2024 #15
Gonna hit 90 this week in Minnesota NickB79 Sep 2024 #16
When one of my sisters moved into her current house over 20 years ago BumRushDaShow Sep 2024 #17
Yep. Minneapolis is now zone 5a NickB79 Sep 2024 #20
Let's rephrase that.... purr-rat beauty Sep 2024 #18
We had a hot and mostly dry summer in Pittsburgh FakeNoose Sep 2024 #19
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