[Magdalen] Garden report

[Chad Wohlers]

We have lots of trilliums here - not so much of the other stuff. Also 
gazillions of trout lilies and spring beauties - all of which have just 
gone by.

Posted what's below yesterday but it seems to have gotten lost in the 
luminiferous ether:

Well, I just got in from fighting with my soaker hose irrigation - ugh! 
Don't buy the one from Johnny's - obviously intended for commercial 
growers who leave it in place all season.

Anyway, I was using it as it's been quite dry here, and the forecast is 
for over 90F on Tuesday & Weds., which is rare enough in July, never 
mind May. Record-breaking high for sure.

I'm also a proponent of "green is good, brown is bad" lawns. So, while 
we do have a few violets in the lawn, much of it is overrun with wild 
strawberries - which are in bloom right now.

Planted asparagus from seed last year and picked 4 stalks Saturday, plus 
another two today. I'm happy!

Took close to 200 plants which I grew from seed to the church plant sale 
yesterday and made $370. Only downside is I mistakenly took a tray I was 
keeping for myself and most of those got sold. So no Matt's Wild Cherry, 
Sungold tomatoes, etc. Well, I suppose I can get many of them from the 
Farmer's Market Friday.

All the stuff I've already planted is doing well - cabbage, broccoli, 
lettuce, spinach, peas. The snow cover went away quite early this year - 
early April - so I planted by onion & leek seedlings soon after. 
Unfortunately, it then got down to 16F (we live in one of those "cold 
hollows"), which they didn't like very much. At least half survived, but 
I may need to replace the others.

The strawberry bed has just come into bloom and the blueberries have 
lots of buds on them, so it looks like we'll have a good year for them, 
assuming no frost in the next couple of weeks (and right now it 
certainly doesn't look like it!).

Need to get the potatoes & beans planted soon, then set the tomatoes 
out. Peppers stay in the greenhouse.

That's it from northern Vermont -

-- 
Chad Wohlers
chad at satucket.com
Woodbury, VT   USA

On 5/25/2020 10:50 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> I yearn for my back yard in Wisconsin which was covered in the spring with  Nodding triliam,Bloodroot, and in the wetter areas Marsh marigolds, Jack-in-the Pulpits, and Swamp cabbage.And in the midst of it all, a natural spring with ice cold water filled with delicious watercress.
>
> David Strang.
>
> In a message dated 5/24/2020 4:40:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, pdan.brittain at gmail.com writes:
>
>> And in our lower flowerbeds, poison ivy and> the ever-present "creeping Virginia", otherwise known as Virginia creeper> (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). which look pretty much alike in their early> stages.
> We have a plethora of those too. I call the tree man once or twice a yearto clean out our fence due to the poison ivy.
> The violets are all in the grass. We can't have tomatoes because of> black walnuts.
>