Earlier this week I went to start veggies and flowers for the library’s community garden
What’s growing on with you all?
So many peas! I’m excited, I love snap peas. My hope is to succession plant them on the same trellis as my tomatoes and cucumber, we’ll see if they have enough of a head start for that to work out. Last year’s kale is also killin’ it out there, making the most of the time before the cabbage moths show up
My seed starting is not going quite as well as I’d like, only two cucumber coming up so far of the 10 or so I wanted. No peppers yet either, though that was old seed. Tomatoes are doing decently well, and I’ve got plenty of backups in the multitude of seedlings that have spring up outside where fruit fell off the vine last year!
I’m worried about the apples I planted around this time last year. They haven’t showed signs of leafing out yet, though I did have to cut a couple of suckers off the base of one. I might not have babied them enough last summer, and they did get some involuntary pruning by the deer.
On the bright side, I just received my blueberry bushes! Planning to plant them out this weekend, just gotta figure out where… Any tips on high-bush blueberry care would be much appreciated!
Yay peas! I planted ‘sugar snap’ and ‘sugar anne’ today after picking up some hog panels for trellising. Hopefully the other seeds get with the program!
For the blueberries - remove any flower stems back to where they branch from the larger stem this first year. You want them putting their energy into leaves and roots. They appreciate a more acid soil and easy access to water. Top dressing with sulphur, or even the occasional diluted apple cider vinegar will help them create the subsoil conditions they prefer.
Tulips are blooming, and I just planted an American Plum sapling.
Very cool! I applaud the coarseness of the mulch you’ve used
What’s funny is that’s leftovers from the absolute mess that the ground clearing guy we hired ripped out of the area. He ran EVERYTHING through a woodchiper and made a massive amount of mulch.
What did you do with the rest of them?
They are around a rhododendron, maple tree, and keeping a walk area on one side of the house clear.
Quick guesstimate is that he made enough mulch to cover about 400 square feet about 4 to 6 inches deep.
I’ve sowed corn lettuce and rocket, ready for the quickly approaching winter.
my hyacinth is looking lovely this year and actually split into two. I didn’t know it could do that.
I’m worried about my lavender but I do see a tiny bit of new growth on it. currently it looks dormant still, and I’m concerned it died. wasn’t sure if I should remove the pine needles around it or keep them there, the rain I don’t think is helping but we’re getting more sunny days.
tulips are starting to open up too! my mom planted a ton of them last year, and I’m looking forward to the rose bush we planted last year growing more. she also bought blueberry plants, two of them, two different variants. Costco apparently had them, hahaha.
hoping to get more hyacinths I think. they’re really pretty, even though I don’t think they last for super long? my mom wants a flower hanging basket for mother’s day, mentioned that she wanted one that might attract hummingbirds, but I don’t think ones of those exists?
Fuschia attracts hummingbirds and looks lovely in a hanging basket.
I’m discovering hyacinth (and gardening for that matter) for the first time this year! Yours has an incredible color! I’m on mobile using the Jerboa app so I’m not sure if the pic i added uploaded. We’ll see! Also our PJM Rhodie is in bloom.
We’re still trying to figure out what kind of fruit trees we have in the backyard but I’m assuming plum, and maybe apple or pear.
I’m now up 40 echinacea and 15 lilacs and 40 assorted elderberry (not pictured), with mulching of the pots still to be done after I sift the mulch.
Everything in the low tunnel is starting to take off too! There’s about 20 feet / 6 meters of space under this greenhouse poly - the pallets are keeping the pvc frames in place and the potted trees that are too vig to fit under the cover are keeping the poly in place very nicely. They seem to be quite happy receiving the ambient heat from the low tunnel, which is getting to some nice summer temperatures even on our chilly days.
Our local university’s ag school just held their annual heirloom seedling sale.
My front yard has heavily deer-proofed tomatoes in cages, Black Krim, Chefs Choice Black, Dwarf Tasmanian Chocolate and Momotaro.
Black Krim, Chefs Choice Black, Dwarf Tasmanian Chocolate and Momotaro.
Black Krim are so good.
deer-proofed
lol
BK is my favorite tomato. The CCB is supposed to be like a beefsteak version of it.
I think this deer proofing will hold up at least until the plants outgrow the nets.
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weeds, weeds everywhere
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