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| Blueberry Blossom - first I saw around the 10th |
Monday I saw my first fully-opened salmonberry blossom. That is a little later than usual - they typically first blossom around early May. But in 2016 they blossomed in late March and I noticed in 2017 they blossomed even later than this year. Salmonberry blossoms - like the first crocus and blueberry blossom are how I gauge the arrival of summer. I post on them every year and here are the links to a few past blog posts from year's past (click here, here, and here for just a few of them).
This year I have not been walking regularly in Abercrombie so I did not exactly catch the first day of when the blueberries blossomed, but it was around the 10th of May - again this is on the late side.
I've noticed that the first salmonberry blossom coincides with about when I plant my garden. And if I plant it earlier than the first blossom nothing really grows. Over the past couple days I have been planting my garden. I got the lettuce, kale, and mustard green sprouts all planted in one bed, and the potatoes are all in too - nicely covered with beach peat. All that remains, and they'll be planted today, are the carrots and radishes in another bed.
The last few years I have been making a lot of use of 'volunteer' seedlings. In the fall I let a few kale and mustard greens go to seed. And the past week or so I have been moving the seedlings around to where I want them to grow. They are far hardier than when I try to grow them from seed myself.
Patrick
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| Salmonberry blossom - first one I saw May 17th |
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| Nettle close up - we've already had a number of meals out of the nettle patch |
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| Raspberry buds |
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| Red alder catkin |
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| Garlic doing GREAT and that's beach peat in the potato trenches |
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