We had our first real strawberry harvest late last week! After a very long day at work, when I was ready to, literally, get in bed by 7:00, Kim found them and called me outside. Is there a better way to cap off such a day than with 10 ounces of…
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UncategorizedSpring Freeze
Our cherry tree. I do believe our last round of freezingtemps killed all of this wonderful potential. Echinacea & strawberries Because of our fluctuating temps this spring, I do believe we have lost most (if not all) of the fruit on our fruit trees this year. I may be jumping…
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UncategorizedHarvest Monday
Happy Monday everyone! Well, the past week has been full of tomatoes! 18 to be exact! 17 of those were Yellow Taxis and 1 was a Cherokee Purple…an itty bitty Cherokee Purple. While it was quite a pain to carry all those tomato starts in and out of the house…
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UncategorizedCherry Carnage & Strawberry Protection
Whelp…after all the excitement and promise of cherries last week, it looks like I was worried about the wrong pest. This is what has happened over the past few days… Do you see the two almost ripe cherries?Now, do you see the devoured cherry above them? Yep…all our beautiful, ripe…
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UncategorizedGood News/Bad News
The good news is, we have cherries that are ripening up! The bad news is, we have a million aphids on our cherry tree! The good news is, we also have some Ladybugs on our cherry tree! Let’s hope they’re hungrier and faster than the aphids…
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Well, it looks like we just might have made it through this last little cold snap OK. Everything that’s in the garden so far seems unharmed by the freezing temps we had the last few nights and for at least the next week our lowest low is supposed to be…
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If our fruit trees don’t suffer a hard freeze for the next month and a half, this just might be our first year of real fruit harvests (you know, real as in more than 8 or 10 apples)! Oh, my fingers are crossed and I am so hopeful, but with…