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I need to make an update on the vegetable garden, but today I'll talk about our fruit trees. We've planted 10 different fruit trees in november, and so far they all survived the winter. But we had a little surprise the other day:
Seems like someone ate a portion of the bark... Not all the trees were attacked, maybe some were tastier than others. This one (a pear tree) was the most wounded.
So we put some healing mastic (organic product) on the wounds and added a fence around the trees to protect them (and more straw to keep the soil humid, the weather is still too hot for the season):
That was last week end, and everyone is fine for now. As you can see, everything is super dry around the trees, we haven't had a real rainy weather for months now. And it's not forecasted in the weeks to come...
The gardens of Historic Williamsburg Virginia.
Time, nostalgia, and then necessity. In that order. Those were the key factors that determined how gardens in America were grown in the mid-1700s. By that point, the pilgrims had long landed, settlers were four generations into life in the New World, and creating an independent society was on everyone’s minds.
An 18th century painting of New…
(Post date: April 30, 2022)
I believe that spinning protein fibers into yarn is a good endeavor for us.
Since beginning spinning some odd months ago, I seem to have become more comfortable with finer yarn.
I hope to grow into silk and sericulture as well next year.
The teal cake was a combination of newer spinning and months-old spinning.
(Post date: May 24, 2022)
1. Wheat plants forming berries. A good few of the stalks are maturing; once the plants begin to yellow ("amber waves of grain"), I will harvest and thresh them.
2. Peas. Stunted plants still make enough peas for the chickens to have treats, so it is not a total loss.
As I embark on this new life of living out in the country I am reminded daily of how weak and dependent I have become on others to sustain me. I have lived and breathed by the hands and ideas of others while I awaited their decisions to tell me how this would affect my life. I’d always felt the call to abstain from the race I was living in, yet I didn’t know how to escape the life I was born…
We've planted more metal posts to put treillis for our tomatoes. They've grown well so far, flowers start blooming.
The shell peas have dried out from the hot temperatures. I think we lost almost 10 days of harvest comparing to last year. But cucumbers and tomatoes took their place, they're looking fine under the straw.
The eggplant bed is thriving, and potatoes we forgot last year seem to enjoy the place too.
It's hot for the season, but the garden is fine. Still no rain forecasted (we had a few drops two days ago, but nothing relevant for the soil).
The Greenhouse Diaries Entry #8: The End of the Beginning
The final selection of writing in Katharine Sergeant Angell White’s Onward and Upward In The Garden is dated March 28th, 1970. “By March,” she writes, “for those of us that live in the Northeast, the summer seed and plant orders are in. From Washington north to the Canadian border and east to Maine, the tender seedlings and plants raised in hotbeds, cold frames or greenhouses now must wait for…