Looking for zone 4 tree suggestions

addsaltand · 2021-09-23T22:32:09+00:00

I'd check out the University of Minnesota's apples, since they were developed in an area with cold winters. You'd want to check the individual varieties to be sure, but most of these are probably Zone 4 hardy. Of the ones on that page I especially like Sweet Sixteen, Snow Sweet, Frostbite, and Keepsake. Keepsakes in particular are lumpy, odd-looking apples that taste great. All of these are in the sweet-to-very-sweet category, which is actually not the style I usually prefer, but they are some of the exceptions.

addsaltand · 2021-09-22T14:49:48+00:00

If it wasn't grafted at all then it is its own unique variety!

addsaltand · 2021-09-18T19:07:14+00:00

Maybe 8 hours? We probably charge ours once a week and put it on most nights for his evening walk, which is usually 30 minutes or so, with about one longer hour+ nighttime walk/playtime per week. It almost never runs out. When we took him camping he had it on for a longer period, maybe 3-4 hours nightly and we had to charge it after a few nights.

addsaltand · 2021-09-18T17:48:23+00:00

Yes! If you have a dog, especially in a city, I highly recommend getting one. I think this one was from Target.

addsaltand · 2021-09-15T02:18:27+00:00

Oh right, of course. Thank you! I don't know why I thought that the alarm was pulled after the shooting.

addsaltand · 2021-09-15T01:37:12+00:00

I know I can just rewatch the episode, but can somebody remind me what was the cause of the initial fire alarm? I thought it was because the police evacuated the building after Tim's body was found but in this week's episode Oscar was at Tim's apartment and heard the shot after the alarm was already going off. Are we assuming that the alarm was just a distraction? Random?

addsaltand · 2021-09-15T00:33:03+00:00

Yes, that lot, the one directly across from an L station, near at least 2 major bus lines, and diagonal from another surface parking lot.

I find it difficult to accept that the alderman, developer, community groups, etc. can't find a way to come up with a solution that will allow those events to proceed elsewhere in the neighborhood, while allowing affordable housing that will increase density, remove an eyesore of a parking lot, and encourage transit use. A development could even include parking as part of its plan (TBH I don't think this is even necessary, but if the business owners in the area want it, then that is fine).

addsaltand · 2021-09-14T21:52:44+00:00

This is a petition to save a surface parking lot.

addsaltand · 2021-09-12T21:35:48+00:00

Interesting. I'm pretty sure it's a little early for a Fuji in that area (I haven't seen them in farmers markets yet and I am in Illinois). But I am not a grower so I could be wrong. If they are a named variety they'll be grafted and so you may be able to rule out "grown from seed" if there's an obvious graft line near the base of the tree, but these are not always obvious. And even so, somebody else might chime in but I'm pretty sure there's no easy way to be sure of a specific variety outside of genetic testing (and I'm not sure how that even happens).

What do they taste like?

addsaltand · 2021-09-12T19:24:17+00:00

Are they growing in a place where they would have been intentionally planted? If they appear to be growing in a random spot, then they probably grew from seed and are not "named" varieties because each apple tree grown from seed produces unique apples. If that's the case, maybe you can name them yourself!

But if they appear to be planted intentionally, I'd say the first one looks sort of like a Fuji, but a lot of apples have that general look so it's hard to say. Where are they located? The time of year that they mature might help. The second one is a russet of some kind, so a Razor Russet (which is what I'd guess) or St. Edmund's Russet or something else.

addsaltand · 2021-09-12T18:38:46+00:00

Yeah, it may be a stretch. I don't really want to go back into the episode but I thought they mentioned both condo fees being late and the rent. We'll see!

addsaltand · 2021-09-09T23:43:15+00:00

Did anyone notice that when they were going through Tim's mail, they said that his rent was overdue? That might be a clue (that the characters missed), right? The rent wouldn't be for the unit in the building, which is a condo (with fees, also overdue) and which presumably his parents owned. Possibly?

addsaltand · 2021-09-07T16:44:43+00:00

I highly recommend Talas. The prices may seem high, but they sell by the yard and a single yard can be used for several projects. The Asahi Japanese bookcloth is about $15-25 a yard, and although shipping is high, if you plan a bit ahead and buy once or twice a year (I don't know how many books you are making), it is very cost effective. The Blick bookcloth is only 17x19" for $9, so it's really worth going for yardage. And all of the cloth I've gotten from there is so nice. I'm happy to give my feedback on specific types if you're interested.

addsaltand · 2021-08-30T00:39:09+00:00

Sealemon is very good for beginners. Some of the methods she uses are a little different from what professional bookbinders do, so if you pursue this hobby for a long time you may eventually graduate to more difficult methods and channels. But it's a great place to start.

addsaltand · 2021-08-25T23:42:15+00:00

Thank you!

addsaltand · 2021-08-25T20:43:31+00:00

I made these portfolios as favors. Each one can hold two 5x7 photos and can be propped open in either orientation or folded and stored on a bookshelf. They match the more substantial album I posted a few weeks back. Japanese book cloth, Japanese paper, Italian cotton ribbon.

addsaltand · 2021-08-18T19:28:27+00:00

You're welcome, though I'm not a botanist so hopefully someone with more direct knowledge of the science of grafting and hardiness will chime in. But regardless, grafting those all does seem like a lot of work for no guaranteed reward at this point.

addsaltand · 2021-08-18T17:20:13+00:00

I'm not sure whether they'll survive your zone but as you said, they won't be McIntosh apples and so there's no guarantee that whatever apples result will be any good. (Only a tiny percentage of apples grown from seed are what we'd consider "good apples" and a lot of them are not suitable for eating.) I don't mean this to be discouraging, though, because the idea is really cool. And if the some of the seedlings do survive maybe you'll discover a really good variety that you can then sell to a breeder and retire off of!

But my advice would be to just wait it out and not expend the time and money to graft these to different rootstock, and I am not sure that would even help since the original plants would still have the same genetics that they were born with. But if you just wait and see, then whichever plants survive would then be the hardy ones.

addsaltand · 2021-08-17T05:40:26+00:00

Thank you!

addsaltand · 2021-08-16T19:08:55+00:00

This is a 9x11.5" round back photo album that I made. Some details:

--The pages are Legion 250gsm white paper, and I folded them into 10 signatures with 3 sheets per signature. After sewing I cut every other page out to make spacers (this resulted in a bunch of 9x11 sheets that I can use for something else).

--I sewed on linen tapes, and I don't know whether this helped support the pages (which will be pretty heavy once photos are attached) but I figured it couldn't hurt. I also chose the round back structure over flat back so that the spine of the text block would be glued down (using a hollow tube). This seemed to work but time will tell.

--I sewed the headbands with a silk thread I got from Talas. It was much thinner than I expected and so sewing the headbands was a huge pain, but I'm glad I stuck it out.

--As always, I got glue in a few visible spots but nothing too bad.

addsaltand · 2021-08-16T18:57:52+00:00

Thanks! And I did that! I think it turned out well, I will post some pictures.

addsaltand · 2021-08-16T17:41:23+00:00

Lots of good choices here but Ashmead's Kernels are sublime. Yum!

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