Strawberries still trickling in, and today I picked first 3 of Cabot variety. You can see how much larger they are comparing to Tristar. Unfortunately my wish for rain was translated into 3 day torrential deluge and everything is very watery tasting and not too sweet. I think next year I will remove Tristar from the enclosed garden and keep only Cabot. We did pick few more blueberries from early bush, but groundhogs are our main competition.
| 23726 | Fragrant Plum Grandiflora Rose |
| 24080 | Paradise Hybrid Tea Rose |
| 24245 | Q2 - Twilight Zone Grandiflora Rose |
| 24395 | Ebb Tide Floribunda Rose |
| 30485 | Golden Sentinel Columnar Apple |
| 30490 | Northpole Columnar Apple |
| 30495 | Scarlet Sentinel Columnar Apple |
So when it all arrived, I planted them out on the patio in containers. We're thinking of redoing our entire patio and since I can't keep anything edible growing due to groundhog and raccoon, I'm planting a lot more flowers. I do hope that raccoon don't go for apples once they start producing, but that's at least 3-4 more years. We have 3 apple trees in the back yard already and animals have been a problem each and every year. So I do hope the ones on patio will be "ours" without too many animal issues. For now they're tiny sprigs, joining roses, few hot pepper plants, 1 winter squash (will see if it makes it) and onions/chives containers. Blueberries were moved to a second patio to be near citrus and fig.
And we had a visitor again - our baby bear was back. He really is very small and acts like a puppy. I really feel bad for him, as he's not quiet ready to be on his own and he's clearly very hungry.
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Those strawberries look so good! Mine are just starting to ripen but they look nowhere near as large as those Cabots - they are huge! And you certainly do have quite the collection of plants for your patio - I'm sure it will be fabulous!
ReplyDeleteI hope your strawberries will ripen soon. And I'm looking forward to playing with designs for new patio :)
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