Weather has turned from cold and rainy to hot.
With assorted bits of company coming, Ed's been cleaning out the kitchen porch, so it's not so horribly ugly out there. Plant pots and such going toward the far end of the woodshed, as if a potting table might appear there before long!
Yard
- Blueberries coming along still. Have been picking a big handful of raspberries most days.
- Frequent mowing.
- The lemon tree is looking good, tiny, but good, having come back from its winter freeze.
- Last winter's pansies that did so well earlier in the year are petering out.
- Cotoneaster looking peaked.
- Parental trees all doing well.
- Fruit trees doing ok, although the apples have some black gunk and might need to be sprayed with something.
- Put some of Shirley's onion bulbs from last fall in the ground under compost and they're coming up!
- Planted the cloves from a very sprouted garlic at one end of the tomatoes.
- Most tomatoes have perked up and are doing well. A few were just too snail-eaten to succeed.
- Eggplants, haricots verts, winter and summer squash all doing well.
- Lynn gave us some cabbage and kale plants. Planted these, which got a bit snail-eaten before we got to the garden. We'll see.
- Got some potted geraniums and fuschias from the front. Also a yellow abutilon and a salmon geranium that wanted to come home with me. (All are pelargoniums, of course.) Potted the last two properly today.
