Fruit harvest & storage advice
I found a useful website from Washington State University describing when to pick nectarines and apples and how to store them. Here’s the link: Fruit Harvest & Storage.
I found a useful website from Washington State University describing when to pick nectarines and apples and how to store them. Here’s the link: Fruit Harvest & Storage.
I need an online “to-do” list for all this stuff I plan to do. This is a reminder to fertilze the heck out of my roses this year. In a few weeks, I need to give them a granular fertilizer high in phosphorous. Some people recommend tomato fertilizer. I’ll have to check how the container…
I thought this photo was so cool it deserved more than a thumbnail. I love this tree! Everything about it is great — the way it looks, the amount of apples it produces, the wonderful flavor of the Granny Smith apples, everything. My favorite things in the garden are the fruit bearers — apples, cherries,…
Wow a whole month without posting! I am chagrined to have not posted here for all of August. I don’t have much time to put into it this year, since I’m working much of my free time doing construction in my basement (now shooting for finishing it within a month or so!). Anyway, here’s some…
I missed the perfect week to take a shot of the red maples — they had lost too many leaves this week, but here’s a cool closeup. We’ve actually been quite warm this week and much of last — over 70° for seven of the past 12 days. That’s pretty impressive for late October on…
Winter is almost over, and aren’t we all thinking about what grew really well last year and whether we want to repeat some of these all-star flowers again this year? 2019 was a great year in our garden. We made a huge, new flowerbed across half of our front yard (the other half is coming…
I had a lot of catching up to do on weeding and stuff today: Weeded the veggie garden (I still need to create some kind of trellis for the green beans, which are only about 3″ tall so far) Weeded some flowerbeds Mowed the lawn Picked a bunch of cherries from our second tree which…