2021 06 24 - Fruits

Lets start with the good. I have been trying to raise blackberries for about 10 years. These are the 1st flowers I have ever seen on them. If they actually produce some fruit I will expand the area.

This is my eight year old blueberry plant that might not make it. There are still some green leaves near the bottom so I am hopeful. We are getting some blueberries off the other plants but so far only enough to eat as we walk past. About the same as last year.

I went and picked up some more seeds today and while I was there I looked at their blueberries. They did not look real promising. Not something I would pay $15 for. Not sure I'd even pay half that for those. I might break down and pay full price somewhere else.

Raspberries, they are pretty hard to kill. These have been in the same place in my garden for the last 10 years and this last winter the deer ate most of them off. But there are still a few and if the deer don't eat them off again there will be more next year.

Strawberries - very disappointed this year. I was not around to water them and it shows. The berries are very small, not much larger than wild ones. And there are very few of them. Not sure if I would get a bowl this year or not. And these things have a short life span before you are supposed to re-plant.

I'd like to try some other fruit but I am not sure what else will grow here.

I found enough seeds so that I can replant my beans and carrots. It is too late for peas. So all I bought was sunflower seeds and more flower seeds.

Spent the day weeding my garden. The first thing I did was get all the knee high weeds, I guess I started that last night. Then I just picked a spot this AM until I got too hot. Then by this after noon part of my garden is in the shade so I worked there. Then this evening I was back in the other garden getting it cleared to plant more corn.

I thought I was going to have room for two more plantings but showed more rows on my map than were in the garden. I hope to pant to shorter growing plantings but I will wait until this weekend so they are closer to a week apart in maturity.

I planted quite a few onion sets but very few made it. I will fill in with corn or flowers.

I like to plant my corn three rows wide for pollination. Right now the widest I have is two rows. I may just try it and see what happesn.

Hope to get my tomatoes in cages tomorrow. That is something that is much easier when the plants are less than knee high.

And tomorrow I can water again ...