Re: Weekend...

Gabby? Not at all - love to hear about it all!

My garden news is... snow is gone, grass is beginning
to green up, can see a couple buds on one group of
daffodils.  Got 3 inches of rain Wednesday and more
Friday so the ground is still too soggy to work even
if it would warm up enough to think about it.

Your news is much more fun ;-)

Libby
Maryland zone 6


--- james singer <islandjim@verizon.net> wrote:
> without you-know-what.
> 
> Potted up some pepper seedlings that geminated
> during the week and a 
> bottle gourd seedling. Picked about 10 pounds of
> tomatoes and a handful 
> of jalapeno peppers [our two major crops]. We've got
> pineapple starting 
> to bloom, so I need to weed and fertilize them
> tomorrow.
> 
> Tied several more orchids in the orange jasmines and
> on the ponytail 
> palm and misted them all with Maxicrop. Figure this
> is probably a good 
> fertilizer [1-0-4] for orchids living in trees. One
> of these orchids is 
> the wild native that I glued [gooped] on the
> ponytail a year of so ago. 
> It's finally begun to make itself at home, send out
> roots, and produce 
> more fruiting bodies. Maybe next year I'll have
> enough plant to send 
> Scottie a start I promised... oh... a year or so
> ago.
> 
> When avocados bloom, they BLOOM--thousands of tiny
> flowers that are 
> swarmed over by bees, wasps, flies, and things I've
> never seen before. 
> Hundreds of them are fertilized and form baby fruit.
> Then, between 
> fertilization and fruition, the tree begins
> sloughing off hundreds of 
> fruits--until, I assume, it reaches some sort of
> accommodation between 
> its ability to have children and its ability to
> support and nurture 
> children. The crop at harvest will be somewhere
> around 50 or 60 fruits.
> 
> I also noticed today that out big old mango was
> loaded with baby fruit 
> and the lychee is in full bloom--more flower spikes
> and attendant bees 
> than I've witnessed heretofore. Maybe a bumper crop,
> and that would be 
> most welcome.
> 
> One last note. The fig tree cuttings we started 2
> years ago are now in 
> 3-gallon pots and about 3 feet tall. They need to go
> into the ground 
> sometime between now and the rainy season. One of
> them is already 
> producing figs. My kind of tree.
> 
> I apologize for being so gabby.
> 
> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> 
>
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