Dad and I have started planting the garden. Chives, cucumbers, and the different kinds of tomatoes and peppers went in on Monday; but yesterday we put in a couple of very special new arrivals.
Three varieties of grapes:
Green (Marquis Seedless)
Red (Reliance Seedless)
and Purple (Concord Seedless)
Also six blackberry plants
The blackberries seem very hardy. I picked out a variety that should produce fruit the first year. I hope both things do well! We’ve never grown either of them before.
We have yet to put the trellises up.
That’s our ornamental plum in the background. It was in an absolute glory of pink flowers for a little while there.
Dad got a new apple tree from town for the garden. It’s little flowers were fading when he planted it. I’m not sure if it has any left now.
He bought it to cross-pollinate the lonely apple tree we already have out there. I ended up putting a bucket of apple blossoms by the bigger apple tree this year, in the hopes that some of its blossoms would get pollinated that way. I also tried to do a little hand-pollinating. We’ll see what happens!
After this we need to plant beets, green beans, spinach etc. etc. :)
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