Pinging the list.
The only seedlings that survived the below freezing night a few weeks ago are the hot lemon peppers and the ancho peppers. I put new seeds in the cups where the other seedlings died about a week ago. Nothing yet, so we may be buying plants this season. It’s not the end of the world.
Please put me on the list.
We have tomatoes showing on our tomato plants. They’re about the size of pencil erasers. Fingers crossed that we don’t get hammered by storms tonight.
Mud everywhere, so no gardening most of this week, other than cutting asparagus.
Ducks are destined for the freezer Sunday. Their straw, their food, and my patience & tolerance are all running out at the same time. Have to refill both feeders and waterers at least twice, and usually 3 times a day. 4 ducks get 6-7 8 oz yogurt containers of food each time, or at least 3 containers per duck per day; and they get 4-6 2# coffee cans worth of water per day. No wonder they go through so much chopped straw...which ends up tilled into the garden.
Mrs. AR harvested a bunch of the Egyptian walking onions that had taken a hike into an area that needed tilled, just before the rains hit. Really good flavor, though the bulbs are too small for slicing, and the upper half of the stems are too tough to eat. They are good for boiling, then straining out, to add flavor to soup or stew.
Big surprise today was seeing buds on our peach tree, something that hasn’t occurred in all the years we’ve had it. It has died almost to the ground at least 3 times, and come back. I can’t be certain whether it’s the grafted stock that we bought it for, or just a sprouted rootstock any more.