Showing posts with label orchard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orchard. Show all posts

Saturday, July 19, 2008

lazy days

today, i finally decided to do something productive so i went to the orchard to check on the peaches. they are slowly ripening but something else caught my eye...
i can't believe it!! after 3 years of nothing, the plum tree is fairly loaded. and they are delicious! i am very excited. plums are one of those fruits that i LOVE but never get to eat. we ate most of the ripe ones, the ones in the picture i picked up off the ground. i hope they will ripen soon.

fruits and veggies are slowly trickling in finally! tomatoes are orange. soon! the pattypans are more prolific than the zucchini. i have baby spaghetti squash that i need to start tying up as i have trellised the vines. the tomato plants overnight seem to have leaped and need trellising asap or i'm going to have a disaster on my hands. the green beans are pathetic this year. hardly any came up. i need to attempt to plant more and see if i can get some late harvests in.

moondog was hot and decided to cool off in the kids play tub. ahhhh, thanks kids for filling this up for me!

wet dog alert!

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

what's new around here?

cherries high to the heavens!

little girls love tart pie cherries and beg for more

the bees are happy with their new super and new set-up. we'll be adding more supers this weekend to both hives. we hurried up and got this one on so the bees would be happier.

cherry picking friends forever

clover - i'll be milking her starting tomorrow morning

chamomile - they thought she was a boy and didn't disbud her so we have one with horns, hooray!

calendula? - we are still working out a name for her. i felt so bad, when we took her and left her sister, they both bawled the entire time. i almost left chamomile so i could bring her sister home with her.
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