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Today was another busy day. The kittens are crawling around on their own now so I put them in the attached garage.
Jerry dug up a lot of Rose of Sharon bushes from his mom’s house yesterday. He brought them home and we are planting them along our back fence row to create privacy.
I weeded some of the vegetable garden today, planted the eggplant and a few tomato plants.
Jerry’s mom bought us another Peach tree tonight. That brings our fruit tree count to 2 apple trees, 12 blueberry bushes, 4 peach trees, 2 cherry trees, 3 cherry bushes, 2 plum trees, 3 pear trees, 1 hardy orange tree, 2 cranberry bushes, 11 raspberry bushes, 3 blackberry bushes, 2 grape vines and so many strawberries that I can’t count them all.
My peppercorn bush is coming back from the winter so it is indeed hardy here. I can’t wait to harvest fresh peppercorns.
The herb garden, which we re-did, is taking off like mad. The basil seeds I planted are going to town. I am going to have a ton of fresh basil this year.
The strawberries are loaded. There are more berries on them this year than I have ever seen before. I am really excited. I canned some last year and we did enjoy those when the time came to eat them.
The goats are giving us a ton of milk and we have made a decision to get a third dairy goat so we have some extra to use for soap making.
The roses and poppies are blooming their heads off right now. The peas are up and we are already enjoying fresh radishes from the garden.
I am going to get off here for tonight so I can go help Jerry make supper. Tonight we are having shells and cheese, corn and green beans mixed and filet mignon.
Filed under Flower Gardening, Growing Fruit, Perennial Plants, Roses, Vegetable Gardening by on May 22nd, 2007. Comment.
This year I have decided to try to germinate some of my seeds in paper towels. Not only can I fit numerous paper towels in one of those plastic shoe boxes with a lid but I can check them every few days to see what has germinated. Once they do germinate I will pot them up into peat pots but in the meantime I think this will save a lot of room.
This is one of the seeds that I have put into a damp paper towel on February 21, 2006.
October 29, 2008 – The one I grew from seed and planted into my garden bloomed for the first time last year. Although the roses were few given the massive stems, the foliage was indeed apple scented.
This year the bush was loaded with small pink single flowers, followed by masses of orange-red rose hips.
This is a rambler, but the foliage is well worth it, as are the roses and the hips. This rose, although small in comparison to hybrids, should be included in everyones garden for multi-season interest as well as the fragrance of the leaves.
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