Boy, if you’re a city dog, it is fun to come to grandpa’s in the country where, when your mother lets you run around, you can get into lotza interesting stuff. Mud is special fun.
Of course, you have to be cleaned off before you are allowed back into the house, but it’s worth it.
(This is Laykey, Kirsten’s Corgi, and she has a ball when she comes here.)
My plants need a summer break from the green house after being cooped up all winter. The taller trees go out in midMay to be followed by the orchids in late June–that way the trees will also shade the orchids for most of the day.
The banana tree in the middle is about 9 feet tall and really suffers being stuffed in the 8-foot green house. Thus far no fruit though.
Things are going along well on the “farm”. Despite the wierd weather–alternating above or below normal temperatures–that have slowed progress on those things needing warm weather, most of the garden is on schedule.
The upper part of the garden with beans, carrots, beets, lettuce, chard and onions is producing well. We have been, or could be, using most everything in this area–excepting the beans which will be ready next week.
The lower part where the tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins and potatoes are planted is coming along slower than I would have hoped, although the tomato and pepper plants are loaded with blossoms and immature fruit. I expect, however, that once the latter start ripening, we are going to be overwhelmed.
A couple of notes: The hoops to the left in the first picture are covering a new strawberry patch that is outside the garden fence. Rabbits were nibbling off some of the leaves. The garden, btw, is surrounded with 7-foot high fencing to keep the rabbits and deer at bay–thus far it has worked *knock on wood*.
The tomato ladders are in the center of the second picture–if you look carefully you’ll see them sticking above the top of the skeleton of the tomato house. Since I was limited in number of these I put them on the grape tomatoes which seem to grow huge and have a lot of fruit.
I left the tomato house structure there since I plan on using it to cover the area when frost threatens in the fall. Hopefully I can keep those plants going a little longer with that kind of help.
This lily just keeps getting better and better with each passing year.