rightly, I searched for any sign of a pepper today on all those pepper plants, and nothing yet.
sockmonkey, There are five tiny Lemon Balm plants tall enough for the leaves to be completely above the surface of the soil, so they are going to grow.
There is another 4 inch tall National Pickling cucumber with a blossom - that is two that tall with blossoms. The two foot tall Homemade Pickles cucumber has blossoms on it. That plant is really a grower. I had put a cane in the pot and plant latched onto it on its way up.
I get 6 to 8 red strawberries a day off the plants.
I really like the homemade pickle cukes. You can pick them quite small or let them get to the Klausen Dill size.
Speaking of pickles, I opened some pickled zukes last night. I hadn't tried them yet. They were a sweet and spicy recipe. Now they were really good, and crisp too.
I hope I can find the recipe and the notes I made last year. I only canned one batch of 7 pints, and didn't really expect to like them. Figured they'd be mushy.
Forgot big news: There are three tiny bits of green coming up in the Cilantro pot outside. I hope more seeds germinate, but at least there are three Cilantro plants trying to grow from seed. I sprayed water from a bottle over and around them to keep moisture there. Hope to see them taller tomorrow and maybe more of them.
Yayyyy! Strawberries!
—rightly, I searched for any sign of a pepper today on all those pepper plants, and nothing yet.—
Patients, be patient, it’s early and peppers have a mind of their own.
I think all of my peppers now have either blooms or tiny peppers on them, even the ghost peppers which went naked over the winter and I almost wrote them off as lost, They barely are leafing out and I see baby peppers on them today when I was out there. I guess they are making up for the long winter we had.
Still need rain, the hill is turning into a dune.
Got a bit of sheetrock mud on the wall today. I am not fond of sheetrock work. Perfection is off the table here. Good enough is good enough.
My Eversweet strawberries just started getting ripe this week. They did not do much last year, but much better this time. They are a type that makes over a long period and they are not very large, but the flavor is incredible.
My Rosborough Blackberries are still blooming but have some fruit already set. Looks like it will be much better than last year. Those are the best flavored blackberries I have ever eaten. Jelly from them is incredible. Trick to picking them is wait until the sheen on the outside of the berries just begin to turn dull. That is when they are the sweetest.