I’ve got a fun week ahead. Tomorrow - looking gorgeous, so I have one bed that needs major weeding and top dressing.
Mom helped me tie up tomatoes today that were getting rather unruly. I have a lot of fruit on, but nothing ripe, yet.
I discovered that I have PEACHES, today! I always thought you needed a second Peach tree for pollination, but I guess I’m wrong because there are a dozen or more Peaches on my lone tree. Yay!
Pears are looking terrific and I have apples on Liberty, Bonnie Best and two Honeycrisp - first time for them! It’s gonna be a Hard Cider Candy Apple Christmas, YAY!
Then - Rain on Friday and all weekend - which we really need! But come Monday - 90+ degrees and 100% humidity. Yuck. All week. Double yuck.
So, my tomatoes are going to be slow to ripen, too.
I blasted my grape arbor with Sevin, very early this morning. Japanese Beetles. Not many, but I just checked them and there are now NONE. Jerks.
Nope, you can have a single peach tree and get peaches. They say it helps a little to have more than one but not necessary. Anything you grow will have ten times the flavor of store bought.
A month ago, I was feeling bad about not having planted more warm weather crops like green beans and cucumbers. I’m not worried about it now. It’s been like growing in the desert here.
The farmer’s market facebook pages for this area haven’t been posting many pics in a few weeks. I feel for them.