We got a whole bunch of fruit trees set out in the nice balmy weather this weekend. 3 plum trees, 1 pear, 1 peach, 1 apple. We’ve got 3 figs and a persimmon in pots waiting for more landscaping soil and 8 knockout rosebushes and 24 bramble vines (Kiowa and PrimeArk blackberries, loganberries and boysenberries) in their little pots waiting for another batch of bull panels from the co-op in a few weeks when we can arrange the use of a trailer to get them. I’ve got 50 or so strawberry plants that runnered and those need to be set out too. Busy busy busy at my house!
Oh, and my hazlnut shrubs have little catkins on them for the first time this winter. Yay! Hopefully I’ll get a few hazlenuts next year.
Mr. Mole got my Chinese cabbages and snow peas. Hubby is gonna go nuclear on him before we try to set out spring greens in a couple months. Next raised bed we build will have chickenwire in the bottom!
Garlic looks fabulous. Much better than it did last year. We set it out about 3 weeks later last year and it didn’t have as much time for topgrowth before it got cold for good. This year I’ll have to worry about protecting the top growth if it gets really cold again. Still have those tunnel wire thingies in my cart at Johnny’s waiting for me to remember to order them.
And my late corn experiment yielded a little over a pound of seed corn. Small kernels so it’s a lotta seeds in there. I planted out the whole pack IIRc, 70 seeds. Crows got about 1/3 of it when it came up because I wasn’t diligent to protect it. We ate about 1/3 of the ears and this is the remaining ears, shelled. I was totally happy. Next spring I’ll plant another couple packets to maximize the number of parents in my saved seed stash and hopefully get another couple pounds. We’ll see.
I’ve found seeds for a really short season white dent corn that I’ll plant first thing next spring. It’s supposed to be somewhere between 2’ and 3’ so I might try to sneak it into a front flower bed, densely (8”, square), just for kicks. no HOA here in the country but hubby might not like the idea so I’ll have to run it by him first.
Will you have to cover up those fruit trees when it gets cold again? Have you ever tried to use dent corn for popcorn?