10 days of showers! Every day between two to 10mm. The temp is lovely – doors and windows wide open again.

The cornus venus have lost their leaves and adding about a foot of growth. Naturally they are loving all this rain.

Patio tomato has lots of blossoms, no fruit. First tomatoes are forming in the garden, a bit pitifully, but started. The peppers are the same. The cukes are starting to take off. The cilantro is bolting, need to be more religious with the successions planting, out of arugula.

everything on the patio is looking great. The power of Miracle Gro.

Julie’s cherry tree is well ripe, Virginia’s is just loaded heavy with fruit. Odd, Mother Nature has not sent anyone round to raid it.

What a wickedly cold and wet spring. A bit of sun today, but only in the 60s.

Pruned like crazy today. The sycamore maple got a big haircut. Took a couple of large branches off the biggest columnar apple. The apples are starting to get leaf curl, in part from ants farming aphids. Stuck a couple of cut pieces of applewood into the ground. No loss if they don’t take.

The crab apples fruit is looking good: at least 12 fruit. Four fruit on the green apple. Purple clematis is starting to open. About a dozen blooms, most on the other side of the fence! Dragon weeded the back parking pad – scorched rather than poison the earth. Feel much better about that, but do question the carbon impact of the propane and tank.

The crocosmia have returned in two places. Very happy.

Tomatoes all have first blooms, but the plants are scraggly looking. Have been fertilizer crazy. Two kg of 10 10 10 in the garden. Tomato fertilizer on the raspberries between the fence. They are in flower. Blueberries are forming. A squirrel tasted a strawberry and dropped it. Might need a fruit fence. How funny. Mowed and about to call it a day. Took a naproxen about 2 hours ago – gonna to be pissed if this back doesn’t straighten out.