Flower garden: Calendula and bachelor button growing, but still at seedling stage. California poppies came up five days early. Liatris is growing as well, and possibly seeing the Verbena coming up — although too early to tell. Planted additional seeds on Saturday and Sunday — English Thyme and Lemon Balm.Vegetable Garden: String beans are doing well, about 5″ tall. Bok Choy will be ready to start picking in about a week. Swiss chard still has a ways to go, still in its early seedling stage, as are beets, although they’re moving along quickly. It’s been a week and they’re about the same size as swiss chard, which had more time in the soil. Planted zucchini and string beans, using the Farmer’s Almanac lunar calendar (favorable time for planting above-ground crops and flowers). Added some tansy (mugwort) to the garden, and the calendula added two weeks ago is coming up in the zucchini area by the fence.
Fruits: Planted two honeyberry bushes. Small fruit on the bottom. Waiting to see what comes of it. Planted another blueberry bush, which had a lot of young green berries. Waiting to see how they mature. Of the two young blueberry bushes added a couple of weeks ago, both flowered — but not sure whether the flowers will turn into fruit. The flowers dropped off, possibly due to the low temperatures. Planted another plum tree so that the existing one could cross pollinate. And finally planted yet another grape vine, which had along green vines. The two existing ones are coming along, albeit slowly.
All the fruit trees, particularly the apple trees, have or are currently flowering.
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