Got a few cukes yesterday. Iroquois melons should be ripe soon, (anyone have any tips on how to tell when to harvest?) if weather holds. Tomatoes are still blooming and forming new fruit in bed #2 planted midsummer. The row cover seems to have been sufficient to get them and the melons through the cold snap this past week.
Worked on bed #1 soil. Buried banana peel and eggshell in each square. Will add a scoop of compost/manure to each this weekend, and plant red winter wheat this Sunday. New beds 3 and 4 are in the process. Hope to finish up this weekend and plant some winter wheat there as well.
Hubby has cleared most of his garden, and is preparing to plant some white winter wheat. The butternut tree has produced a great crop of nuts in spite of the drop earlier this spring. We have about 4 gallon buckets, and more are still on the tree.
Here's a picture of our orchard planted this spring. Hope everyone has a great weekend. God bless.
Butternut tree? Do you have pics of it you could post? I have never heard of a butternut tree.
Oops. Just noticed that I said we had 4 gallon buckets of butternuts. That should have been 4 heaping 5 gallon buckets, with just as many left on the tree.
We also have a little over 1 heaping 5 gallon bucket of black walnuts from 2 trees. The butternut is always the best producer so far.