George Shirley wrote:

Picked a small bucket of sweet chilies, eggplant, kale, two or three
sorts of lettuce and one lone cucumber. Had a good bit of the pickings
in our dinner salad this evening.




Black crowders are making like crazy and the vines have climbed the
trellis and I'm now working them in and out. Tomatoes are a bit slow in
ripening but that is expected with all the rain and overcast we've been
getting.

i'm just planting ours today...


Figs are getting larger every day and it looks, I hope, to be a good
harvest. The pears are about the size of a quarter and looking good.
This will be our first pear harvest on that tree if they make it. The
coloring now is a russet and we hope they are tasty. Supposedly good for
eating out of hand and canning both. Tree looks really healthy but I'm
doing my best to keep pruning off the "rain" limbs so the tree stays
open to sunlight.

hope these all grow grow grow!


The blueberries aren't doing well at all, will have to do some research
to see why they aren't. The "wild" tomatoes that came up this spring are
putting on fruit and, today, we ate the first "Indigo" tomato we planted
earlier.

blueberries, hmm, acidic soil and plenty of
organic material in the soil, mulched on top,
perhaps the many rains are leaching all the acidity
away?


songbird

On 5/31/2016 9:18 AM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote:

Picked a small bucket of sweet chilies, eggplant, kale, two or three
sorts of lettuce and one lone cucumber. Had a good bit of the pickings
in our dinner salad this evening.




Black crowders are making like crazy and the vines have climbed the
trellis and I'm now working them in and out. Tomatoes are a bit slow in
ripening but that is expected with all the rain and overcast we've been
getting.

i'm just planting ours today...


Figs are getting larger every day and it looks, I hope, to be a good
harvest. The pears are about the size of a quarter and looking good.
This will be our first pear harvest on that tree if they make it. The
coloring now is a russet and we hope they are tasty. Supposedly good for
eating out of hand and canning both. Tree looks really healthy but I'm
doing my best to keep pruning off the "rain" limbs so the tree stays
open to sunlight.

hope these all grow grow grow!


The blueberries aren't doing well at all, will have to do some research
to see why they aren't. The "wild" tomatoes that came up this spring are
putting on fruit and, today, we ate the first "Indigo" tomato we planted
earlier.

blueberries, hmm, acidic soil and plenty of
organic material in the soil, mulched on top,
perhaps the many rains are leaching all the acidity
away?


songbird

We acidify that blueberry patch every year, reckon we will have to wait
until the next bout of thunderstorms pass through, if they every do pass
through.

Just back from another round of testing for the heart, nuclear stress
test, no big problem with the nuke or the rest, will have to wait until
tomorrow for the results. Last time was in 2014 and came okay then.

Eight of us in a small room, all veterans and all geezers. Nice visit
but had to stay there to long to suit me. Got there at 0915, left around
1330, that was tiring. We old veterans were having a good time. One guy
was actually older than me, the rest were a few years behind my
enlistment in 1957. Three old sailors, including me, one lone Marine,
and some doggies. Wasn't to bad as we were all in a good mood. Hope I
won't have to go back for awhile.

George