Yeah my tag just stays Vaccinium Croymbosum. Maybe I can call the nursery and ask…
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As pointed out cross pollination from other varieties will help with fruit set. A guide is sometimes useful.
The northern highbush variety you’ve got will cross pollinate with other Northern highbush varieties but not southern highbush or rabbiteye varieties.
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The rains been good. My leaf mould cages have been settling down in volume due to the excess water pushing down on them.
So I took advantage of patches of sun during the rain today, dodged rain and got hit by rain while moving piles of leaves I’d made last week into the cages. I’ve got one which is predominantly oak leaves and another which is a mix of oak, ash, alder, chestnut, maple, Sycamore. All those wonderful non native trees…
Broad beans are coming up 
Saffron Milkcaps are still turning up randomly and making it into breakfast omelettes.
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Yay! The blackberry cane is planted and the two peppers are planted! Radish and turnip have already sprouted in the raised beds we just planted 5-6 days ago. Hubby is funny. I caught him at the end of one bed raising his hands up and down, saying, “Grow! Grow! Grow!” 
I spread eggshells around the original two raised beds we have. I’m hoping that will deter slugs.
I found some small green caterpillars on my blackberry canes and rose bush. They were eating holes in the leaves. They were dispatched with post haste.
I thinned radishes in the original two beds. We have four raised beds now.
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Has anyone here grown cantaloupe? Will it grow in a container with 8 hours of afternoon and evening sun? Trellised? I’m thinking of moving the tumbling compost bin and putting a honking big pot there for the cantaloupe, with a trellis to climb up to the deck…about 7’ off the ground. Does that even sound like it might produce cantaloupes?
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We just had a deluge of rain yesterday evening and into the night. I can’t wait to see how the garden survived!
I haven’t planted much of a garden the past few years. Fortunately I have some perennial things. Today I picked 3 pounds of tart cherries and there are many more still on my tiny tree.
Before I started. I only picked the darkest fruits.
Almost three pounds! (I did tare the empty container)
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Future tarts or jam?
Cobbler, mostly. Clafouti. Some cherry oat bars.
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Wow!!! So impressed, cherry trees take a long time to mature (it seems to me)! They look so good.
I just opened our compost bin and my compost is gone. The arborist team must have removed it?!?! when they moved the outer plastic part to grind the stumps down. I’m furious.
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I’m doing some watering for my neighbor while she is out of town, and she has this cute fenced off area for her veggie garden. Unfortunately, a bunny has made her burrow in the middle of the fenced off area. These buns!!
I’m assuming my neighbor either already knows or would want me to leave her alone (they’re vegan and won’t spray for wasps).
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I bought these. Unfortunately they are small and probably won’t have flowers for a few years, but eventually they’ll be beautiful!
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Gorgeous colors. Particularly love the second one!
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Just had a another tree guy come look at our mess of trees and undergrowth. He quoted $2000 plus tax to take out a mature poplar, a mature maple, prune a mature oak, and clean up all the little stuff underneath, AND deal with the corner behind the shed in the backyard.
I think that’s a good deal. Most often it’s $1000-1500 to remove a mature tree. The neighbour across the street said it cost $3000 to remove one between him and his neighbour!
This guy knew what he was talking about. He was musing about weight of ice, torquing of branches and the likelihood of ice damage in our current situation. Something we hadn’t thought about. We were concerned about trees falling on our neighbour’s house, but hadn’t turned around to look at the oak branches overhanging our own roof!
So Hubby and I were impressed enough we think we’ll hire them, as soon as the official quote comes in. Job won’t be done until July though. He’s backed up pretty much until the end of July.
Meanwhile, the garden continues to sprout! Cucumbers are up. Beans are sprouting. The second crop of peas are up. Spinach is up. Kale and turnip are up. Lettuce is up. Still waiting on chives, onions, shallots and leeks…which to be fair should have been started indoors and transplanted out.
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Had an interesting discussion with Hubby about permaculture as it relates to us, our yard and our stage of life. Hubby thinks I am too decrepit to take care of the yard (true) and, if anything happens to him, will be too poor to hire anyone to help.
I have to crunch some numbers to see if that’s actually true.
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First to harvest garlic scapes was Charlie’s Sicilian. Substantially more vigorous than the Sicilian variety one row over.
The notes for this from the grower was “Big bulbs, fun to grow”
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So Hubby’s analysis was correct. I will be pretty poor if anything happens to him. So #1 goal is to figure out how to increase revenue. I’m starting with produce from the garden/yard. I can always barter extra for services, or sell via local buy’n sell groups.
The first crop of peas are blooming! Yay! Almost everything came up. There are a few holes in the garden, but they will be good places to bury compost.
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Life insurance is also a way to work on this problem; it’s why we have lots on me.
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