garden etc.
Jul. 1st, 2006 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quietannAll the rains while we were gone means it's a jungle out there...
I am still picking a few strawberries, but they mostly rotted because it's just so soggy, and the plants are huge so the berries are shaded all the time.
I have picked three serviceberries (aka juneberries or saskatoons) from plants I put in 3 years ago. They lost a year's growth because the groundhogs love them, but we fenced them and this year one plant has about a dozen berries. They are very sweet, like a melon.
I also have my first raspberries! Right now I am getting purples, a few summer reds (although this may not be a good year for summer reds because of the weather), and wild blackcaps, which are full of seeds but most tasty. The summer blacks will arrive in a few weeks, and in August my fall-bearing reds and yellows will start. I should have a good crop if the weather is right (warm, some rain).
I will have blueberries in a week or so, if I throw a net over them so the birds don't get them all.
I need to remember to get to Alaska in August sometime to pick the wild berries there.
And I will have tomatoes! Some critter really did a number on the tomato plants a few weeks ago, but I put a net over them and they have regrown and are blooming and setting fruit like mad. With seven plants, I will have plenty to share.
Aside from that... I am staying home today; my apologies to hosts of the one or two events I was invited to. I am still catching up from the trip, and just feeling like being alone today.
I am still picking a few strawberries, but they mostly rotted because it's just so soggy, and the plants are huge so the berries are shaded all the time.
I have picked three serviceberries (aka juneberries or saskatoons) from plants I put in 3 years ago. They lost a year's growth because the groundhogs love them, but we fenced them and this year one plant has about a dozen berries. They are very sweet, like a melon.
I also have my first raspberries! Right now I am getting purples, a few summer reds (although this may not be a good year for summer reds because of the weather), and wild blackcaps, which are full of seeds but most tasty. The summer blacks will arrive in a few weeks, and in August my fall-bearing reds and yellows will start. I should have a good crop if the weather is right (warm, some rain).
I will have blueberries in a week or so, if I throw a net over them so the birds don't get them all.
I need to remember to get to Alaska in August sometime to pick the wild berries there.
And I will have tomatoes! Some critter really did a number on the tomato plants a few weeks ago, but I put a net over them and they have regrown and are blooming and setting fruit like mad. With seven plants, I will have plenty to share.
Aside from that... I am staying home today; my apologies to hosts of the one or two events I was invited to. I am still catching up from the trip, and just feeling like being alone today.
