Friday, 31-June-2017

We dropped by a garden center while we were out today and bought a couple of veggies on sale, two cayenne pepper plants and an eggplant plant, unlabelled, so it will be a mystery.

All four squares of basil are coming up in the sandbox. I planted tomatillos seeds in three squares; one is sprouting well, the others are empty. That's a puzzle. Put the cayenne plants in two squares next to the tomatillos.

Put the eggplant in the potager. The squash looks good. The tomatoes are growing well and need to be encouraged to climb their spirals. If it every stops raining long enough to work for a bit down there.

This week we had the long hedge shortened again, and took the bottom out of the lime tree. This was scraping the shed roof and the fencing. Also had our two quinces cut down to size. They've gotten huge since we've been here. Unfortunately, our best ever crop of quince went with it. Guessing it will take a couple of years to start producing again. We should try to keep the shrubs down to reasonable size now.

Friday, 9-June-2017

Some half-hearted planting today. In the sandbox, I planted four squares of basil, alphabetically, left to right, canelle, citron, genovese, and poupre. The three squares from the poupre, I planted with tomatillo seeds.

Also put some oregano seeds in a pot. What tiny seeds those were! Hoping this will reseed like the lemon balm, which has come up in at least three pots.

The tomatoes and other veg survived last night's storm. Ed had covered over my single zucchini seed and eggplants. In the meantime I've planted new zucchini that are coming up well. No sign of eggplant, but the haricots verts, fêves, and kousebanden are coming up.

Our cherry tree has had an exceptional season. We've had only a few. What do you do with gallons of cherries. Most of them are too high for us to collect. The raspberry is also doing well.