Saturday, 22-June-2013

Yard

• Rain keeps raining; grass keeps growing. Not much else of note. The Mock Orange on the fenceline is blooming beautifully, making me really want to be rid of the thuja that crowds it on the left. 
• The raspberry is producing. Picked a small bowlful today. If we went daily there'd probably be about the same each time.
• The blueberries are coming along.

South Forty

• The three thujas at the bottom of the South Forty are gone, hooray. Looks a bit odd coming up the road below, something missing, but looks much better.
• Looks like we'll have a few pears and plums this year. Not much action on the apples.

Potager

• The store-bought eggplants are doing well.
• The zucchini seedling that I planted is doing well. Planted the remains of a snail-eaten plant with it.
• One winter squash seed up. 
• There are haricots verts (Cordon Bleu) and fêves seeds planted directly in ground are growing. 
• Planted the remains of the slug- and snail-eaten tomatoes, six San Marzanos and five Tomate des Andes. (The weakest of each share a pole.)
• The paths need a mowing should it ever stop raining, (Actually everything needs a mowing.)

Entry

• The hydrangea is starting to bloom; the little clematis has finished. 
• The passion flower is blooming. It has never really recovered from the hard freeze winter before last. We're thinking this would be a good place for a honeysuckle; could put lath up the conservatory "walls" (that will probably never be closed in again). The passion flower could coexist with that whenever it's in the mood.