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.