They still look good, already growing since I planted them. Raspberries are ripening, so that's fun, too. I'm wondering if my raspberry plant was mislabeled. It's supposed to be Boyne, not an everbearing variety. But I got a crop last fall. I planted last spring, then we had crazy heat, it almost died many times. Finally came back and really started thriving. I put the late production on the stress it went thru. Then I went out this spring to prune the fruiting canes from last year and there weren't any dead ones. I'm pretty sure that the canes that fruited last year were primocanes. They appear to be what is fruiting now. If the primocanes that are growing now (they're growing very well this year!), fruit this year, then I'll know. I still won't know the variety, though.

I have 2 new unnamed varieties this year (from a local gardening club plant sale, just said "red raspberry"), so I'm curious to see if they fruit this year, too.

My tomatoes are growing very well now that it has warmed up, but they keep dropping blossoms . They'll get themselves sorted out, I'm sure. Sometimes I just have to remind myself that tomatoes are weeds, they eventually figure out how to tomato .

Raspberries are sour, I'm blaming the cold spring. They were sweet last year.

Front yard peach tree (there's also a back yard peach tree) still has 2 small peaches, they look healthy. The tree has grown a ton this year.

Wildflower meadow front yard grew well, but it grew lots of clovers, which I thought were crimson clover that I'd planted. They were black medic, the clover with the little yellow flowers. It would have been fine, but they grew very thick and only let a few other flowers through. I started to mow it Friday, but it was too hot, tomorrow or Monday I'll finish it. Hopefully some of the lower growing flowers will keep growing. If the black medic wants to grow, but stay short, it's welcome to, I don't need grass grass. It was just looking like an overgrown mess. I might throw in the white clover seeds for next year.

Blackberries are growing like blackberries . I can't wait to see them all grown up and full of berries!

Today's raspberries were better. Not so sour, just a little bland. Understandable because I've been watering a lot to help the blackberries and apricot trees get established.

Anna's Multiflora. I don't know why I don't grow more of these. Last year, I bumped it off my list, in favor of new tomatoes. If I'd left them, I'd have had a better year. They are good tomatoes. They produce abundantly, the plants survive anything, the tomatoes are never blemished or cracked, the keep a reasonable amount of time on the counter, and they taste good. They taste like old fashioned home grown tomatoes. They're not super sweet, but very good tomatoes.
Berkeley tie dye. First tomato of the year. Surprising, because I have a few cherries, but like I said, blossoms keep dropping .

I bought some tomatoes from the farmers market. When I tried one, I was reminded that early tomatoes (especially when spring was cold) are not the best. They're mealy. So I don't feel so bad anymore about not getting any tomatoes on my plants until July.

I found another apricot tree. It was in the weirdest spot. I have an old utility trailer behind my house, and no way to tow it, so it mostly just sits there, and has some cardboard and random other junk in it that needs to go to the dump. Well, last year, someone cleaning up the neighbor's property dumped some pine needles in there. Also, one of the neighbor's apricot trees hangs over the trailer and drops apricots into it (the ones that don't make it into my house). So today, a different neighbor was being sketchy behind my house (she puts stuff in our garbage can), so I went out to check on things and found a tree growing in the pile of pine needles in the trailer.

I repotted it, and if it survives the disturbance, I'll plant it in my back yard. I don't need another apricot tree, this will be #3, but we need trees back there, might as well be free trees that are already growing here.

Happy to report that my tomatoes are finally starting to really set fruit. Anna's Multiflora has tons, one started earlier than others and might actually ripen soon, the rest are little, but it's a cocktail tomato, so it doesn't take then long to reach full size.

I found some on both my blush and candy sweet icicle, problem is, I don't know which is which . They're planted right almost in the same spot, and there's one tag between them. The fruit is similar shape, but usually blush has a rounded blossom edge, while CSI is pointed. Both are pointed . Oh well, I'll get what I get. Also found several on Taiga, so that's exciting. My plants are pretty bushy, so I know there are tons more I'm not seeing.

A few tomatoes. I'll get more pics tomorrow, the sun was setting quickly, so I didn't get them all, and a lot of what I got were blurry.

I wasn't sure what order they'd post in, so I labeled them. The unlabeled one is a lone Anna's Multiflora

This is dumb. This is in the corner where my new blackberries are. It lives on my neighbor's side of the fence, but mostly is in my yard. It had been cut down prior to me moving in, and I think before the neighbor bought his house. But you know trees, they grow back. I thought it was a walnut tree, because there were old walnuts on the ground under it, but then my sister questioned if it was tree of heaven. So I looked it up and my app says black walnut. Why does it have to be black walnut?

I'm going to chop the tree back to the fence, and hope for the best. Maybe it's only growing in my yard and I can take most of it down. I know it's only growing because the neighbor doesn't care about the space, so he probably wouldn't care if I just cut it out completely. It's growing between his garage and the fence, in a rather small space.

@dawn ask him if he wants the cuttings, if he doesn't snip snip

Lots tomato pics!

The blush and CSI are guesses. I don't think blush is a truly striped tomato, like CSI, I think it's more like a bicolor. I might be wrong though. Anyway, one plant has striped fruit, one doesn't.

The first Midnight Sun grew that way last year. It looked like a Mango . Actually, this might be from seed of the mango Midnight Sun. The rest look normal.

Stump of the World (no pictures here, but in the last group) has 14 tomatoes on it.

New friend for the garden. My sister found him when she came home from work, he was just sitting there on the path. I moved him to one of my raised beds.

Another mystery solved. I planted one bed with summer squash. Yellow zucchini, green zucchini, ronde de nice, scallop, and lemon squash. Under the assumption that summer squash are all bush plants. One is growing tall, with a very thick stem, and tendrils, but only male flowers so far. I ruled out yellow zucchini and ronde de nice, because I have either fruit or female flowers on each of these. So I did some research on the other kinds, and lemon squash is a vining plant. I was happy to hear this because I didn't want winter squash and I was afraid that a pumpkin seed got in there.

I've had a few squash bugs, but they been easy enough to pick off. Smashed a few eggs. I grew radishes in the squash bed, I don't know if that's helping. Last year, I wasn't diligent and the squash bugs completely took over. This year, I only have a few plants in a 3 x 6 ft bed, so they should be easier to manage.

I just cleaned out my chest freezer. I thought I had a couple bags of tomatoes in there, but no, I had about 20 . They aren't from last year, and most aren't even 2020. They're from 2019.

I'm going to eat them, but I did toss the 2018 salsa I found in there, it wasn't very good salsa anyway.

Also found a lot of squash and pears. I put the pears in the dehydrator, the rest I'll eat now that I know they're there.

Should probably clean out the freezer more often.

Next week

I'm thankful for watering systems!

Rabbit got to come inside. She hates it because my cats are crazy. They aren't mean to her, but they're energetic and she wishes they'd chill. She was thumping at them last night

The cantaloupes are finally starting to really grow well. I guess they like the heat. Green beans too. I have green beans (either blue lake or Kentucky wonder, I don't remember which but I went with a popular tried and true variety), and I also have Anasazi beans and a purple pole bean. The cucumbers have been eaten by sunflowers, I don't know if any are even coming up, it's just a sunflower jungle with purple pole beans climbing the stalks.

I pulled a bunch of the walking onion bulbils to plant in the back yard. I put a few between each blackberry, plus a few other places. I'll put some in other areas in the front yard too. I'll also put some Jerusalem artichokes in the back, but I'll give them a space where they can spread. My sister wants to block off another area from the dogs, so I'll plant some perennials in there. Maybe some plantain and mint. I can't seem to get lemon balm to grow, or I'd throw that back there too. Not much chance of anything spreading beyond the watered areas (and nothing in my yard butts up to other yards) so "invasive" plants are ok.

A mystery tomato. Grew a KARMA Peach that was a free seed pack from Renaissance Farms. One plant was a regular leaf (KARMAs are all potato leaf). I decided to grow it. It's either a stray seed or a cross. I'm hoping it's a cross because KARMAs are pretty excellent tomatoes. It's a very vigorous plant and this tomato is starting to ripen. Weird/bad weather this year, so tomatoes are being weird. So I don't know if this would be the typical size. Curious to see how this one turns out.

Like I said, weather is weird. It was cold at the start of the season, and rainy. Then abruptly 105+ for a week and a half. Everything is getting hit with blossom end rot, including my Anna's Multiflora, which is about the hardiest tomato ever. Taiga and Midnight Sun have lost many tomatoes to it. Old German and KBX haven't even set a single tomato. With all these issues, Stump of the World is loaded with tomatoes and they all look perfect. That tomato will be grown here forever.

After I found the ripening mystery tomato, I found a KARMA Purple Multiflora. They look very similar at this point.

Very happy to be getting some tomatoes!

Midnight Sun
Anna's Multiflora
KARMA Purple Multiflora
Blush
Candy Sweet Icicle
Eggplant

Surprised to find blossom end rot on my Blush tomatoes. Candy Sweet Icicle didn't get it though.

Weather took a break for a couple days. It's only 83 right now. Next week, it goes back up. Took this opportunity to mow my lawn. The wildflower meadow might have been a bust, but the non-grass weed lawn that remains looks healthier than the grass lawn ever did.

Blackberries are doing well, and raspberries are going crazy!

My sluggo plus treatment did nothing for my earwig and rollie poly problem. I was looking forward to trying this Neves Azorean Red. When I noticed that it was getting closer, I got it off the ground, but the damage was done. The next day, the red appeared, so I picked it. So far, the wound is dry, so as long as it stays that way, it might ripen further. If not, oh well, I know the dangers of letting plants sprawl.