Kerry’s Garden

Today was the first official strawberry picking. I had reduced the bed by 1/3 when I put in the everbearing bed so it didn’t take me nearly as long to pick. Its a good thing, my back has been giving me a fit with regards to bending. I keep forgetting I’m not 20 any more. [...]

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I started out this morning planning to spend just 2 hours outside. I had a project that I thought was due on Monday and needed to get on it asap. Lo and behold I found out it wasn’t due till Thursday so… 10 hours later I am exhausted but oh so much is done. No [...]

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The blueberries are a bloomin’. Normally it is a little colder when the blueberries bloom. Rarely do I see any honey bees out yet but the yearly visit from my lone bumble bee should be starting up any time now. She can often be seen doing her best to pollinate the blueberries. I do everything [...]

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I just love zinnias. So far they have escaped mildew. The dill seeds are forming. I planted this patch of mammoth dill last year and it came back from seed this spring. My first official garlic harvest. Ok, my second but the first one didnt’ count. The heads aren’t the largest but I had just [...]

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The strawberry harvest was good to us this year. Not great, but good. The chest freezer has a half a dozen or so vacuum bags of strawberries and one bag of blackberries from yesteryear. The fruit is frozen individually, or, in the case of the strawberries, cut up and frozen on trays. These are packed [...]

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Strawberries, mulberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries in that order. Perhaps next year or the year after will include some gooseberries, currants and cranberries from the plants purchased this year. Actually we may get a couple of currants this year. I mean to remove all of the blossoms from the new plants but by the time I [...]

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Tried seeding some comfrey in float trays day before yesterday. Planted out some more broccoli from Walmart. The strawberries are in bloom. Planted out some more leeks. Dug up some raspberry starts for trade and to send some to Mallie. Planted out the wintergreen and huckleberry from ebay. Not impressed with the teaberry but the [...]

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