George Shirley wrote:

We're getting temps in the mid eighties nowadays so the
lettuces, etc. are starting to wilt. Guess we will be back
to just eating chard, etc. for summer greens soon.

The fruit trees are leafing out well and I am fertilizing
this week as per the ag agency says. Hoping for bumper
crops later this year. I had to prune a few limbs from the
pear tree over the winter and it is doing well. The fig
tree was hit with some sort of borer but only on one limb
and I amputated that one. The kumquat has completely
recovered from the two hard freezes back to back in
February. The avocado trees dear wife planted from seed
seem to be healthy and we hope there will be both male and
female trees there now. We brought a start of our lemon
tree and now have two of them growing. These trees are a
cross between a lemon and a grapefruit and the old one at
the last house was very prolific and very much spiny. The
things grow spines up to four inches long so I will
probably be pruning spines again soon.

For a small property we have crowded in lots of good stuff
to eat, preserve, or give away and hope it goes well.

George

The temperatures have been on a roller coaster here in
SE VA, but I took advantage of a warm and not-too-windy
day last week to get the broccoli and bok choy transplanted
into one garden bed and planted some snap peas and onion
sets in another.

I rushed to get 'em done since the weather folk were claiming
we were in for three days of rain, so of course, no rain
came until yesterday. At least not over my garden.

It looks like one of my three remaining blueberry plants
didn't make it through the winter. It was already a replacement
for a previous one that didn't make it. Next to it is a
bare spot where a different variety didn't make it even
after several tries.

I swear this piece of land is cursed! Four rose bushes didn't
make it into year two either on the other side of the backyard.

Meanwhile my under-the-plant-light starts are doing okay.
Four different varieties of tomato, parsley, and some
non-edible flowers (pansies and snapdragons). Well, maybe
the pansies are edible, but not by me.

Nyssa, who just wasted an hour plus gasoline trying to find
a station that has non-ethanol gas for my mowers using poor
directions from my neighbor