[Ag-eq] Garden

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Nella.
Maybe when I retire I'll take some gardening classes.
I tried asparagus, but never got a crop.  I read you're supposed to wait 2
years, to let the plants get established, but mine died the 2nd winter.
Maybe I had them in a bad spot.  They were pretty, very ferny, so could go
somewhere more central than I had them.

My neighbors are weird.  I had raspberries near the fence for a while.  Me,
I'd help myself to my neighbor's fruit, if it came through the fence, but
they reached over the fence and hacked at them.  Barbarians.

Glad to hear your rain has stopped for a bit.
My weeds were getting the better of me, too, especially the pesky wild
grape.  I have a gardener who comes in when I call her, for a fee of course,
so I called her and asked her to tackle the worst of the weeding.
Barrels-full of weeds and vines.  And she sprayed the poison ivy, which
would have been all over me.  Worth it, just for that.
Tracy


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Tracy:

as usual your garden sounds wonderful.  Have you ever thought of taking the
classes to become a master gardener?

They offer the classes here at the local university and county extention
office might do it to, not sure.

We have had so much rain I should have planted water lilies.

The lettuce drown, but the chinese cabbage was beautiful.  The red and green
head cabbage didn't do so well, the heads were really small, but good.  I'm
starting to get lots of peppers and tomatoes.  I picked the first cucumber
yesterday and the yellow squash are coming on.  I didn't plant much since my
raised beds aren't finished.  My herbs are beautiful and I've been cooking
with them and drying for the winter.

The little fruit trees I planted look great; I hope to find a couple more to
put out there.  The butterfly bushes are blooming I just planted them in the
spring, so didn't know they would the first year.  Also the tiger lilies
bloomed, there were a lot of them.

Do you have asparagus?

I would like to start a bed, but have been told it's hard to get started.
What is your opinion on this?

If I were your neighbor I would be very tempted to join the animals and help
myself to a few blueberries!

What is everyone else up to?

It's actually clear today, the third day in a row, so am going to try and
get caught up outside.  The weeds are growing faster than I can pull them.

Nella
Quoting Tracy Carcione via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>:

> Last week, I started getting a few cherry tomatoes, which is early for 
> around here.
>
> I’ve gotten some nice turnips.  I sautéed the greens with a bit of 
> olive oil and garlic, and mixed them with pasta and peas.  Yum.
>
> I’m getting a bit of lettuce, though it’s getting hot, so it may not last.
>
> I’ve gotten some fava beans, which are like giant peas.
>
> The raspberries are done, and were delicious.  The blueberry in the 
> sun has lots of fruit, though I have trouble figuring out when it’s 
> ripe, and the critters are getting them.
>
> The apple tree is loaded with apples.  It took a year off last year, 
> as the experts on the radio said it would after a big crop the year 
> before.  I expect a great harvest, starting probably late August.
>
> The squash is coming on, and the passionflower is blooming.  It’s 
> supposed to produce passionfruit, which will be interesting.
>
> Some of the roses are blooming, as are the summersweet and lilies, so 
> things smell great.
>
> The coreopsis and cone flowers are doing really great, too, and should 
> bloom all summer.  And the butterfly bush is getting ready to do its
stuff, too.
>
> I love summer!
>
> And I love this time of year, where a lot of what we eat is coming 
> from the garden or the farmers’ market.  And lots of fresh fruit!
>
> Tracy
>
>
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