
It is finally a bit cooler outside. Not so much when being in the sunshine but a lot when staying in the shadow. I had to water everything when I came home yesterday and suddenly it was evening and time to go to bed, so that’s why I didn’t write anything. Today the ground still was damp so I only watered the trees and bushes I’ve planted in the garden this spring. Well to be honest we haven’t had much of a spring this year, it went from winter to summer in a day or so π π
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Something is chewing on the new beans, have no idea what it can be but oddly enough only the ones sown in a straight line, I had a few beans left so I just put them down close to the fence and those are untouched. I also had a few peas left so I sowed those in the old broken wheel barrow, they seems to grow even better than all other plants I’ve sown this year π π Lots of potato plants showing up in the vegetable patch I don’t use this year, I have instead sown seeds (not too successfully I might add) I haven’t had potatoes there for three summers and they still pop up π π Can I cal them hardy now? π π π
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Yesterday we had a strong wind and walked out to the bog, normally that ,means the mosquitoes and flies will stay away from us, now we have so many mosquitoes that we were attacked badly when we arrives at the Birch woodland. So today with less wind we stayed at home, Nova is once again so badly bitten all over her head that I thought it would be cruel to bring her out to even more biting insects, it’s bad enough here at home to be honest. It’s a price we have to pay for having so many trees and bushes in this little garden of mine.




I had a little walk in the garden before the mosquitoes chased me indoors. The Black Walnut is flowering, the English is living and now have two branches. The trees I plated this year all look great and the Pawpaw from last year now have green small dots all over the branches, even the ones I thought had frozen. The green dots are tiny, tiny leafs. Also the Persimmon hybrid that dies but where the Persimmon root (Diospyros virginiana) now creates at least eight new branches π I’ve read that it’s fairly easy to take some of those branches to create new trees from. Well they will. technically all be the same tree but I did also buy a new real persimmon this spring so I hope that at least that I’ll get both male and female trees from this.




Tomorrow will be the last working day this week, we have our national day on Thursday and I took Friday off. The weather will be cooler as I’ve already said and they are guessing we’ll get rain as well. I don’t care as long as we at least have sunshine when we’re out on walks, the rest of the time will be good napping times π
Have a great day!
Hurray for persimmons and pawpaws, even there where they probably have a really hard time
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Hi carolannie!
Yes this is on the edge of what they cane take but so far so good π
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Do you get many potatoes to eat from the volunteer plants? I love seeing Malkolm and Alma play together!
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Hi ppekka!
It depends, if it is a big potato that survived winter, like two winters ago, it’ll give many but small potatoes. So my guess is that it is small potatoes that managed to survive so they’ll give me a few but bigger ones. We’ll only know they day I dig them up π
I have to say that those two are perfect for each other π
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I tried potatoes in grow bags a few years ago. Didn’t get a lot but they were nice. And it was kind of fun. Although I enjoy gardening, I really don’t like to cook. So once I pick stuff, I rather give it away. The exception are the tomatoesβand generally the harvest is ample enough to share.
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I have periods when I love to cook and periods when I almost hate it π I do share with my closest neighbors though and they share with me π
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