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How does your garden grow?
A year and a half ago, we planted in the front sublawn a stick that claimed to be a cherry tree. Last year it put out leaves and a few small branches. This spring it put out a bunch of blossoms and called out "Hey sailor!" to every bee in the neighborhood. As of yesterday, it has 29 cherries, most of which look almost ready to harvest. Our little twig is growing up....
The quince trees bloomed beautifully for a few days in April/May, and are now on to their less-interesting summer phase in which I and they try to fight off the Oriental fruit moths before they can chew up the entire interior of every fruit. I'm using a combination of pheromone-baited sticky traps and parasitic wasp eggs; we'll see whether they succeed any better than last year.
Meanwhile, the pole beans in planters in the back yard are doing pretty well: one or two have climbed to the top of the five-foot trellis, and others are well on their way, although the sugar snap peas are in a life-or-death struggle with the raspberry bushes. The bush beans in the front yard are doing less well: of the forty or so seeds I planted, there's one healthy-looking plant so far. I wonder if the leftover seeds from last year are still viable: they did pretty well. A few basil plants are doing OK, and the Thai chilis still in pots on the porch are looking healthy. The wild-rose cuttings we took from a neighbor's overgrown yard two weeks ago are still in glasses of water, and look promising.
The quince trees bloomed beautifully for a few days in April/May, and are now on to their less-interesting summer phase in which I and they try to fight off the Oriental fruit moths before they can chew up the entire interior of every fruit. I'm using a combination of pheromone-baited sticky traps and parasitic wasp eggs; we'll see whether they succeed any better than last year.
Meanwhile, the pole beans in planters in the back yard are doing pretty well: one or two have climbed to the top of the five-foot trellis, and others are well on their way, although the sugar snap peas are in a life-or-death struggle with the raspberry bushes. The bush beans in the front yard are doing less well: of the forty or so seeds I planted, there's one healthy-looking plant so far. I wonder if the leftover seeds from last year are still viable: they did pretty well. A few basil plants are doing OK, and the Thai chilis still in pots on the porch are looking healthy. The wild-rose cuttings we took from a neighbor's overgrown yard two weeks ago are still in glasses of water, and look promising.