This week by me looks warm so you should be able to get some bees and pollination going. My plum is flowering as well but it’s small and young so I won’t keep much fruit on there and will hand thin almost all of it off. Buds are breaking on my apples but no flowers yet.
I've already got apples on trees that were planted/potted this year. Need to pick them off because it is visibly stressing the trees.
A bit too cold for honey bees. We need another 5-10 degrees. Next week will be in the 60’s so you should get them coming out then.
That’s the hardest part of being a gardener but it’s the right thing to do. You want all that energy into the roots for this year. Those trees look very nice with great color on the leaves and no hint of disease.
I put a shelf in the back room on the west side. Gets lay afternoon sun. If it’s not raining I’ll open the sliding door so the get a breeze.
They look nice and the window with shelves is a great idea. I over did it this year for sure. Three weeks of craziness left, three weeks, I can make it.
I reached the conclusion recently that farming (and gardening) takes a special kind of retard. Nature is brutal and wants you to fail miserably. If things happen to go right, don't confuse luck for success.
I had them in 5 gallon buckets and the idiot just climbed right up there and mowed them down. I had just been out an hour ago and went to move something to the yard and I was like what the heck happened here? I caught the bastard on camera and he came from a neighbors yard about 50’ away. Eat the grass and clover but nope comes running to the only thing I have planted so far. I’m glad he doesn’t like tomato plants since he walked right by them and one broccoli plant has a tomato growing in it and he avoided it. I hope he feels the same way about my peppers.
That is nice looking garlic. Mines about 75% of that height from the looks of it. I got some shallots growing as well and I’m kind of excited about it. Some melted after they grew and refroze but some looks like it’s growing.
Treating and I practice many of these principles. I do use “fertilizers” but it’s all treated chicken manure or composted food/yard waste, worm castings, and composted rabbit manures so these are not the fertilizers he’s talking about. I did use a cover crop this last fall but I do not keep them going all year. I grow in grow bags so I don’t keep the soil covered but I have tons of worms around and will start to use wood chips for cover and mulch more and more this season and next. Most of this is good sound practice for organic gardening and healthy soils.
I might be ok on most of them. This is also the reason I let two grow per pot many say openly one but most times two will grow in them just fine. I also use larger grow bags so I’m fine. There is one that was broken and leaking plant juice out. The others after I tied them up leaked nothing out I think these will be fine. I have had tomato clusters cause the vine to break like this and after supporting the they all survived and ripened so I’m hopeful.
I’m waiting because lots of sub 50 degree days this week and one day in the low 49’s for me. Too cold for tomatoes and peppers.
I guess I slept through this part of the storm. I’ve always wanted to see one but not on the corner of my street. It didn’t touch down
I got three varieties of lettuce, beets and swiss chard in . It got chilly here as well , mid to upper 40’s but I just covered everything with a cotton sheet and they did fine. I will wait maybe a week to put in the tomatoes, peppers, beans, winter squash, acorn squash cucumbers and zucchini though. I’m going to put my sweet and red potatoes in this evening or tomorrow.
