My gardening is showing mixed results this year. I guess that's normal for me. Let's see, I had major success with radishes - Yay! But anyone can grow radishes. Onions look to be a bust again this year. I started seeds in a tray on the windowsill and some direct sowing in the raised bed. The better ones stand at 4.5" tall still. Not much different from when transplanted. Spinach, what there is of it, is a whooping 1.5" tall. Sheesh, what's with that? Lettuce and carrots - got lots of those, but I've had times when I couldn't even get lettuce to grow. Sugar snap peas are coming along well, but nothing to harvest yet. Tomatoes are interesting. I put 4 plants in my tomato house cold frame/green house. 3 are coming along just fine, but the 4th, in the NE corner is wilting and turning yellow. Why? They all have the same soil, fertilizer, light exposure, and warmth. I put the other 2 plants in a raised bed, and this year they are taller than the green house plants. Go figure. But a couple of the Sungolds in the green house are setting some tomatoes and may ripen is a couple weeks.
I thought about pulling out all my strawberry plants last fall, as they are fairly old. Didn't get around to it, so thought I'd pull 'em out this spring. Didn't get around to it, so threw some fertilizer on them and have my best strawberry production ever from this raised bed. However, the majority of the berries are little suckers, about 1/2" or less. What's up with that? Not at all like the big wonderful berries I buy at Spooner's berry stand.
I also have 2 apple trees, both loaded with small apples. I think I'll do a "June drop" thinning later this week to hopefully get some larger size apples later on. My Italian prune/plum tree looks to have very little fruit again this year. I may need more bees for pollination.
That's the Salmo gardening report. Still about as far away from having a green thumb as ever!
