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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>
>
> BTW, I'd recommend 'Hall's Hardy' almond for your new place, and that
> you ignore what you might have read online about it.  The thing to do is
> to try just one near some peaches for pollination.  At the least you'll
> get perhaps the most beautiful flowering "Prunus" you've ever seen, with
> big, voluptuous flowers cast in a deep pink.  If you like the taste you
> can plant more, as I'm planning on doing.  The flavor reminds me of a
> non-bitter almond that nevertheless have the same strong aroma of
> benzaldehyde as bitter ones do, and a smidgen of bitterness that seems
> to vary from place to place.  There is no guarantee of their cyanide
> content, but I realize now that when they're toasted it will become
> negligible, and salt or honey both help mask the minor trace of
> bitterness.  I had the most wonderful raw almond butter recently, but
> next time I think I'll roast the kernels first.
>
> Bill
>
I'll ask our local nursery about them.  We've got about 6 acres that have
had 5 or 10 years of horse manure and 30 years of oakleaf mulch.  You can
dig in the dirt with your hand.  We are going to start with a 1/2 acre of
fruit trees and a 1/2 acre of various nuts and another acre in berries.   We
have marion berries and raspberries but, again, planted in a REALLY dumb
spot (over the leach field).  The brainiac we bought the place from thought
the prior owner had fenced off the area just so she could garden in it.
NOT!  they'd fenced it off to keep the livestock from tromping on the leach
lines.

Lynda
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