On route to peak season.
Blossoms everywhere. Love the colours and the insect action. I’ve picked a handful of beans and peas. Five tomatoes are in the kitchen for a final ripening.
Summer lunches ahead.
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Reds!
Tomatoes have started!
Wild weather – from super hot and humid and back again
Everything is growing gang busters, just hoping things ripen before the squirrels find out. Tomatoes are gorgeous and the hazelnuts have never been fuller.
Peas and beans are just starting to blossom and cucumbers are now about two feet tall. Nipped the first blossoms off one of the cukes cause they were to close to the soil.
The Brussel sprouts and broccoli look pretty good for being so tightly planted. Started taking the heads off the outer plants I could easily access to see what happens.
Picked six green peppers over two days! Not a lot of recipes seem to feature green peppers.
Green is the theme
Tomatoes (Premio) have about 40 fruit formed and the one columnar apple is looking great. Now let’s see how long before some critters find them.
Happy virtual Pride
So thrilled to see my second generation pineapple is starting to bloom (?) or fruit. Along with oranges and the hardy kiwis, I might just make the world’s smallest fruit salad. Happy Pride!
How many blossoms?
The two cornus venus are showing up big time this year!
Happy long weekend
This almost says it all! Massive planting and potting up weekend. And still half of these dears need to find homes. What good fun!
Eat or Kill: Garlic mustard
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It has a name and I have a whack of it. This should be fun.
Ready when you are: jack frost
The Last frost should be any day (night) now and I can’t wait. Literally had to cut the top six inches off the tomatoes I started. Yes, I did start them to soon.
Loblaws garden centre was open today and they had artichokes, so I grabbed three for $10. I let them go to blossom and they look like giant thistles. Simply gorg.
Richter’s mail order has arrived. Plant plugs are so small, but once potted on, they’ll be solid plants by mid summer. The Mayapples didn’t survived being in the mail, but the bay laurel and sweet grass did.
Yesterday? Today. Tomorrow!
A real April snow storm yesterday. Today, picked the daffs that got their necks broken from the weight of the snow.
I covered up the kiwis with hopes of saving their emerging blooms after last year’s freeze that killed them all off. Tomorrow’s forecast is for 16!
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