April 11: Laid landscape fabric on grape bed and covered with woodchips.
Planted 2 new grapevines and 2 dwarf apple trees:
Nearest barn: Thompson Seedless Green Grapes (now realize these are zone 7-9 grapes--ouch!)
Farthest from barn: Canadice Red Seedless Grapes-late August fruit
Farthest north: Pixie Crunch Dwarf Apple Tree–grows 6’-(sweeter than Honeycrisp) fruits late August
Farthest south: Pristine Dwarf Yellow Apple Tree-grows 6’ – fruits early July
Watered everything well.
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| New grapes! |
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| New dwarf apple trees! |
April 12: Watered new apple trees and grape vines
April 13: Dumped wheelbarrows of manure on ends of old tomato bed and onion bed.
Watered everything well.
April 14: with help from Laura and Rich, we weeded herb bed and pulled up old black plastic from edges. Mostly we weeded out lemon balm which had taken over! That left good clumps of salad burnett, lovage, sorrel, 2nd year curly parsley, bergamot, ornamental pink-flowering oregano, several lavender, lemon thyme, common thyme, and lots of chives. Saw some new borage sprouts—will undoubtedly be more. We left a triangle of lemon balm at back left corner. And there is a great stand of tarragon in the corner of the onion bed and some 2nd year flat parsley in the peapod bed. I have some herbs growing in greenhouse (basil, lavender, oregano, and flat parsley—I planted rosemary but I don’t think it sprouted. The herb bed looks great!
April 15: Raked the herb bed smoother and re-set some of the stone spiral. SAW TWO BLUEBIRDS!! Ripped up last year’s landscape fabric from old tomato bed, dug out deep deep bindweed, spread manure, and raked smooth. Also dug dandelions from old strawberry bed and borders. Cut some long asparagus for Tuesday’s healthy food luncheon. Cut and threw away some asparagus that looked bad---perhaps froze last week? Or was damaged by my weeding, or by drought? Watered everything well. Flooded the blockbarn, as in ark-needed! And tonight it is raining hard!
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