Apples turning red on the sun-side.
Red bartlett? My unreliable fruit tree map says green bartlett, but I am suspicious.
Bing-type cherry. We have 2 of these trees, and this one (behind the house) is ripening faster than the tree out front.
First ripe cherries! We hung silver scare tape to help keep the birds out of them, and it seems to be working pretty well. We are going to have hundreds of cherries...
Put up the trellising for the pole beans. Just 1x2 fastened to some T-posts for support and strung with cotton twine for the plants to climb. I read up about different trellis styles and this one made the most sense to me. Most people make them leaning the other way (like a peak, not a valley), but then all the beans hang down into the middle, where they can't be reached easily. This way the beans will hang down right on the outside for easy picking (in theory anyway).
Beans are just starting to send up the leaders that will begin to twine.
Here's the East side of the garden, where the summer vegetables are. Beans, tomato, potato, and peppers. The potatoes were hilled-up again, twice so far, hopefully leaving enough room for the tubers to form.
Spinach sown just 20 days ago is huge. This is my first successful attempt at spinach.
Red russian kale is supposed to have inferior flavor when it matures in summer compared to maturing into fall. Tastes good to me though.
It is really amazing how fast things grow after they get established. This broccoli was half this size one week ago. Looks like this year will have many "my best yet" results for a lot of vegetables (not too hard to beat my previous attempts).
Two "Red Pontiac" starts from my mom, and seed potatoes from the feed store down the road. I put the seed potatoes in a sunny window for a week or so and got them sprouted.
Dug a 8" trench down the center of one bed, then hoed in steer manure and fertilizer 6" deeper. I added about 1" of soil to cover the compost (apparently, having seed potatoes touching compost or manure when planted can cause potato scab), then dropped in the potatoes and covered 3" deep. When the shoots emerge I will hill up soil around them continuously about 6" high, so the potatoes can form along the covered growing stem. I hope I get a good crop this year!
