Cooler days and soon long weekend :-)

Old Nova, she's 18 years old now and still going strong :-)

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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

More and more wild flowers flowers now.Β  Cooler and nicer in the forest but oh so many biting insects.Β  The Swedish name for this flower is Hags' tooth.Β  On our way out on the peninsula out to the bog.

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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ Can I cal them hardy now? πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

Despite the harw wind this place was packed with mosquitoes, that sort of dampens the joy of having a walk even in plsces where one loves to walk otherwise.Β  Β  The bog is now full with Hare tail cotton grass.Β  They are already releasing their seeds now.

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.

Malkolm grows so fast now.

Alma reacted as if she had injured the ball when it started to squeak, I don't think she'll touch it again until I've removed the squeaker :-)
Alma with the new toy, she loved it until it in, her ears, started to scream πŸ™‚ It’s a squeaky thing in that ball and neither she nor Malkolm liked that πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚
Those two are playing all day πŸ™‚

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 πŸ™‚ 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.

This is a favorite in parks and everywhere really, Rose rugosa. It is now seen as invasive and I have no idea how they'll be able to remove them all, especially since it does spread like wildfire :-)
Rosa rugosa, the Swedish name for it would be something like Grumpy rose πŸ™‚
We call this Iris for Swords lily.
Yellow flag.
See all those new branches the Persimmon tree creates now when the hybrid is dead :-)
Lots of new growth from the roots of the Persimmon tree πŸ™‚ The inoculation dies during this winter but the Persimmon root survived and now gives lots of more branches πŸ™‚
I found Morning glories, peas, poppies and Californian poppies growing here now. The poppies refuse to grow in my garden but always grow well in the wheelbarrow for some reason and no summer without Californian poppies at my home :-)
The old wheelbarrow will look good this year πŸ™‚

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 πŸ™‚

Have a great day!

6 thoughts on “Cooler days and soon long weekend :-)

  1. Do you get many potatoes to eat from the volunteer plants? I love seeing Malkolm and Alma play together!

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    1. 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 πŸ™‚

      I have to say that those two are perfect for each other πŸ™‚

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      1. 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 tomatoesβ€”and generally the harvest is ample enough to share.

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