News from the garden…
I’ve got some ears of corn developing, that’s news! I tried hand-pollinating them to be sure they turn out well. Not sure I’m really doing it right, though. Fava beans are all done, killed off by the wilt or something. Swedish browns are coming along, although some look kind of yellow with mosaic virus. I’ve pulled up some shallots and onions - the smaller ones have died back already, and those are the ones I pulled. So at home I have a bunch of puny little onions, and some hearty looking shallots. Those did awesome. Haven’t eaten any of the red onions yet, but those are looking pretty good too. Although not too big, like the yellow ones. Drat.
Here’s the sunflowers and zinnias in the secret garden. Wow.
Over in the Oakdale garden, things are coming along. Beans are doing OK last I looked (actually I haven’t been over there in a minute, but it’s OK, it’s been raining). Something crazy happened - all the peaches disappeared off the peach tree! Every single last one, even the ones in the highest branches that a person couldn’t even reach with a ladder. I’d say the animals obviously ate them, but there are no pits or half-eaten peaches on the ground either. They were just there one day and gone the next. Alien abduction? It was so disappointing, as this is the last year for that tree (it’s on its way out and we’re cutting it down this fall), and it’s my favorite. Plus, the blueberries haven’t born well this year and the plum tree didn’t make any fruit at all! So sad.
Check this out - these are last year’s basil plants, the ones that sat in my bathroom all winter. A couple of weeks ago I chopped every single little leaf off them and made pesto. Plan was to just kill the plants and use the pots for new pesto plants. But I didn’t get around to it fast enough, and these determined plants have gone and leafed out again! I’m getting convinced that I should keep them and save their seeds.
Now for some pretty produce pictures:
the first of my yellow beets…
And a rosa bianca eggplant, hooray. With a rose tomato in the background…
