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lost my best rock elm today to wind; Missouri River floods this year
Sad depressing news today. Actually it must have occurred yesterday
but did not notice until today. My very best and tallest rock elm tree was snapped at the ground due to wind damage. The tree had the most wings or cork flares on branches and was about 12 foot tall and about a 5 cm diameter trunck. All those years of care gone up in a day. I blame it on the fact that it was a graft and grafts are just not good enough, for if it had been from a seed, this breaking would not have happened. Grafting is good if you continually replace trees with more new grafts, but for something to be permanent, no more grafts. Also today I did some strawberry transplants and over the years have come to one conclusion, that strawberries need to be put into a container for the summer and put into a cold frame for the winter and then back into a container next spring. Strawberries just cannot survive the weeds and grasses. I have tried almost every trick in the books, such as a special mower that mows the weeds and grasses but leaves the strawberries. None work as good as containers. I leave special empty containers for the runners. Comment on the weather here in South Dakota. This year is very different for the majority of the past 10 years has been dry and droughts in the summer. This year we are having a flood of Missouri River water and it is affecting Sioux City in a major way because many homes down there were built on the flood plain. The Army Corp of Engineers are releasing alot of water at Gavins Point Dam. I believe they are releasing because if they do not release, they run the risk that the backed up water could damage the entire dam and a flood of a wall of water all at once come tumbling down the Missouri. They said they built those dams to withstand backed up water, but I believe that the structural integrity of those is called into question when alot of water is backed up. And I figure that such a dam break explanation given in the news is not done for it frightens too many people. Archimedes Plutonium http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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lost my best rock elm today to wind; Missouri River floods this year
On Jun 15, 1:02*am, Archimedes Plutonium
wrote: Sad depressing news today. Actually it must have occurred yesterday but did not notice until today. My very best and tallest rock elm tree was snapped at the ground due to wind damage. The tree had the most wings or cork flares on branches and was about 12 foot tall and about a 5 cm diameter trunck. All those years of care gone up in a day. I blame it on the fact that it was a graft and grafts are just not good enough, for if it had been from a seed, this breaking would not have happened. Grafting is good if you continually replace trees with more new grafts, but for something to be permanent, no more grafts. Also today I did some strawberry transplants and over the years have come to one conclusion, that strawberries need to be put into a container for the summer and put into a cold frame for the winter and then back into a container next spring. Strawberries just cannot survive the weeds and grasses. I have tried almost every trick in the books, such as a special mower that mows the weeds and grasses but leaves the strawberries. None work as good as containers. I leave special empty containers for the runners. Comment on the weather here in South Dakota. This year is very different for the majority of the past 10 years has been dry and droughts in the summer. This year we are having a flood of Missouri River water and it is affecting Sioux City in a major way because many homes down there were built on the flood plain. The Army Corp of Engineers are releasing alot of water at Gavins Point Dam. I believe they are releasing because if they do not release, they run the risk that the backed up water could damage the entire dam and a flood of a wall of water all at once come tumbling down the Missouri. They said they built those dams to withstand backed up water, but I believe that the structural integrity of those is called into question when alot of water is backed up. And I figure that such a dam break explanation given in the news is not done for it frightens too many people. Archimedes Plutoniumhttp://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies ~~~~~~~~~~ Sorry to hear that you have lost the Rock Elm after many years of care and effort. One hopes that you can continue your contributions to Usenet from another venue. I lost a favorite papaya tree in the 2011 "4-day freeze" of last February. David H at the Gulf Coast |
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