[Arrowhead1952]

I’ll be caging the tomatoes this week. Some are close to two feet tall. A few are budding and I expect blooms later in the week.

The new peach, pear and plum tree have little fruit already. My original pear tree is loaded. It’s close to 20 years old, so I planted a new one.

Beans, turnips, cucumbers, spinach, squash and other veggies are doing great. If only I cold keep the cats out of the garden. They hunt for grubs in the dirt.

[greeneyes]

We planted some very small fruit and nut trees in 2010 and 2011. We have not yet had any edible fruit. Last year we had cherries that were the size of elderberries, maybe a little smaller even.

The peaches were stunted runts, that never developed to full maturity, in spite of the fact that we picked most of the fruit off so the tree wouldn’t be overly stressed, since it’s not too big yet.

Our big returns are actually due to the native plants that just happened to be here.

Walnuts, butternuts, hickory nuts, persimmons, black berries, dew berries, and rose hips from wild roses.

[Sarajevo]

You're cats do that?
I have ~20 cats on my place, and the only problems I have with digging in the garden is from the chickens and the occasional armadillo. The chickens get in that dirt and start strip mining operations.