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The raspberries, after producing at least half a cup per day for several weeks, seem to have slowed down. And coincident with that, the neighborhood robins have discovered that raspberries are yummy. We expect another crop (from the other half of the canes) in a month or so, but now we're trying to figure out how to protect them from bird predation. The leading candidate is some kind of netting with 1/2" mesh, propped up on bamboo stakes or something: I went to Home Depot yesterday, asked several Friendly Sales Associates about bird netting and got no help, found the 6' bamboo stakes on my own, and eventually found the empty shelf bins where bird netting should be. So at least I know where to look next time.
We've had yellow squash blooming for a month now, but I've only seen one actual fruit, which as of yesterday was about 6" long. We should probably harvest it before the squirrels or robins or somebody else does. I don't understand: from my limited experience (forty years ago) with growing squash, the problem was always too many squash, not too few.
The green bean plants are producing 1-3 beans per day: we've had one meal that contained a normal-sized serving of beans for each of us, but mostly they just accumulate in the fridge until they're in danger of going bad.
The quince trees have a reasonable number of fruit on them, but I haven't cut one open in a while to see how badly worm-infested they are. I've been using sticky traps (with sex-pheromone bait) and parasitic wasps since they bloomed in April, and caught a fair number of moths in the sticky traps.
We've had yellow squash blooming for a month now, but I've only seen one actual fruit, which as of yesterday was about 6" long. We should probably harvest it before the squirrels or robins or somebody else does. I don't understand: from my limited experience (forty years ago) with growing squash, the problem was always too many squash, not too few.
The green bean plants are producing 1-3 beans per day: we've had one meal that contained a normal-sized serving of beans for each of us, but mostly they just accumulate in the fridge until they're in danger of going bad.
The quince trees have a reasonable number of fruit on them, but I haven't cut one open in a while to see how badly worm-infested they are. I've been using sticky traps (with sex-pheromone bait) and parasitic wasps since they bloomed in April, and caught a fair number of moths in the sticky traps.
