What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

I use more dill relish than sweet just a personal taste.

 

[igorsMistress]

I started adding horseradish to my tuna salad and have never gone back.
Tuna, Miracle Whip, tons of chopped celery, some sweet pickle relish, horseradish.

That sounds really good!

 

[igorsMistress]

I use more dill relish than sweet just a personal taste.

I do too, not a fan of sweet pickles much.

 

[Acre4Me]

Num num little voles.

Come and get it! Eat up!

Voles are throughout one raised bed. We put VoleX a couple days ago, and some more today, right down in their tunnels.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

I do too, not a fan of sweet pickles much.

Makes me wonder how it would taste to have both... I might try that some time.

 

[jerryse]

No telling what kind of tree that rootstock growth will end up being. My dad planted a couple of pear trees when I was a kid, and the grafted part died. The tree that grew from the rootstock was a quince tree, I think. It had little fruits on it, but they were hard and inedible. Cool snake skins!

The rootstock is a species Pyrus Ursinus AKA harbin pear. The most cold hardy pear. Probably not very good. I got some for wildlife and or grafting. My woodlot is a dry clay hill. Most pear rootstocks die there. Trying this one. The sprouts are future grafting stock. Got to love free trees.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

All my blueberries are in! I'm so glad to be done with it!

14 of them. 4 rabbit eye and 10 northern highbush.

I need to mulch them.

Working on cultivating the strawberry bed. So glad to have learned about cultivation years ago. So much easier than weeding.

Thanks to Elliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosh again.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

The rootstock is a species Pyrus Ursinus AKA harbin pear. The most cold hardy pear. Probably not very good. I got some for wildlife and or grafting. My woodlot is a dry clay hill. Most pear rootstocks die there. Trying this one. The sprouts are future grafting stock. Got to love free trees.

I have terrible shale hills here. I've got trees in, but they are going to need all the help I can give them.

I became aware only in the last couple of years of a whole different genre of fruit tree culture - wild fruit trees planted purposefully to attract deer. A super-nifty idea, if you ask me. It's what set me off on the wild plums. There is a young man who has a website where he just propagates a bunch of wild fruit tree varieties by the seed and cuttings and sells seedlings each spring. He is sold out in a matter of hours every year.

But what I love about it is that it not only feeds wildlife, making it more abundant and an additional food source as times get more challenging, but the trees themselves offer fruit that is hardier. Maybe not so pretty, but food is food.

I want to add medlar to my place one day. I also am trying to get American persimmon, but they are so expensive if you want to make sure you have a female. :/

 

[Sally PB]

waiting for rain today. it has not started yet but sky is grey and ready to pour down.

Oh, man, do we need rain! None in the forecast for the next 8 days, unfortunately.

Got some more of the brome grass dug up around the garden where most of the tomatoes will be. I got 7 plants in the ground, and so many more to go. We're going to cool off in a couple days; might hold off on planting the rest, based on tonight's forecast.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

The rootstock is a species Pyrus Ursinus AKA harbin pear. The most cold hardy pear. Probably not very good. I got some for wildlife and or grafting. My woodlot is a dry clay hill. Most pear rootstocks die there. Trying this one. The sprouts are future grafting stock. Got to love free trees.

I found this on the Harbin pear.