Wells Brothers is now on our third point of sale system in thirteen years. Not too bad considering we got air conditioning in 2001! There are several reasons for the upgrade. Number one is to be able to track products better allowing us to have the right amount of inventory at the time our customers need it. Number two is that our last system was ten years old and technology has changed, a lot. The list goes on but you get the idea. One thing this new system allows us to do is track customer purchases by name, email address, phone number, etc.
I will tell you that in general I hate it when stores track my purchases and collect data on me. Maybe it’s my age or remembering Watergate, I just don’t like it. But, in 2012 I received a call from a store informing me of a recall of one of the products I had purchased. As it turned out they saved me a lot of heartache and I started to reevaluate my position on the subject. Wells Brothers has had about five product recalls over the last ten years. We contacted all the customers we could by manually checking sale invoices. It was tedious, expensive and absolutely necessary. I encourage you to sign up on the new system and I promises you that Wells Brothers will never sell or divulge any of our customer’s information to anyone. Even to the NSA or whoever else is listening.
Happy New Year from Well’s Brothers Pet, Lawn & Garden! Read some interesting January happenings from long ago!
January 1, 1776 George Washington unveiled the Grand Union Flag, the first national flag in America.
January 1, 1892 Ellis Island opened. Until its closing in 1954, over 20 million people legally arrived to America.
January 10, 1776 Thomas Paine published “Common Sense”. This fifty page pamphlet sold over 500,000 copies in America and Europe.
January 10, 1878 the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote was introduced in Congress by Senator A.A. Sargent of California. The amendment passed in 1920. doc=13&title.raw=19th+Amendment+to+the+U.S.+Constitution:+Women’s+Right+to+Vote
January 17, 1966 an American B-52 bomber collided with its refueling plane over Palomares Spain. Eight crewmen were killed and the bomber released its four H-bombs.
January 22, 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in the case of Roe vs. Wade. Abortion became legal with the striking down of state laws restricting abortions in the first six months of pregnancy.
January 27, 1967 American astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed when a fire erupted inside Apollo 1 during a launch simulation test at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Of all the trees in the world, the fruit tree is close to the ultimate multi-tasking tree. They provide shade, add focal points in the landscape and provide you with something to eat. They don’t get as tall as pecan trees and there is a lot less work to eat their fruit. Like everything else in a landscape, some fore-thought is needed. Full sun and enough space for a mature tree is necessary. Trees like figs will use up to 500 square feet at maturity so pick the location carefully.
Selecting a specific type and variety of fruit tree is the next step. Pick healthy plants from reputable dealers in a two to five gallon container. Please pick the ones that are adapted to our area of the planet. Planting pineapples and coconuts in backyards around the DFW area is just not a good idea. Varieties of apples, apricots, figs, peaches, pears and plums are the most common. The term “chill requirement” refers to how many hours of temperatures between 32 and 45 degrees we have annually. These chill hours are critical for proper bud and leaf growth in the spring. In the DFW area, we normally have around 800 chill hours. Choosing a tree variety that needs 1,200 chill hours is doomed from the start. Some other issues to be considered are late freezes, scorching summers , humidity too high or low, having enough pollinators and of course disease and insects. All this might sound like an iffy proposition, but when you are picking fruit off trees in your backyard, it’s well worth the labor.
There are thousands of pages dedicated to choosing a plant variety for home fruit production. My recommendation for picking the right one is to get in touch with the folks at the Collin County Agricultural Extension office.
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