The Garden is in full swing now. Picked a bunch of red tomatos today, as well as onions, yellow squash, bannana peppers, green beans,cucumbers, potatos, and a Purple pepper. The red peppers are starting to turn red, there is 1 small egg plant on the very tiny plants. The 1st zuccini plants are dead, I have replanted twice, the cuccumber plants are dying, and the potato tops have all died back, so I could pick the potatos any time now. I pulled up the garlic last week, it is up there drying in the garden now. I was very pleased with the size of the cloves. Most of the onion tops have fallen over and the onions could be pulled out as well. Beets are getting to be a nice size to pick, the carrots need to grow a bit more befor picking. The asperigus ferns are doing very well for this 1st year and are between 4' and 5' tall. All in all I am happy with the garden especially with the limited rain we have had. I was given a Niagra Grape plant that I through in the ground last week up by a walnut tree, It was just put in there temporary, you know, permanate but sub-standard,
My grape arbor fell over low these many years ago, I have been meaning to fix it, but a bunch of Jaggers have grown up in there as well as an apple tree and some other stuff, it will be a job to clean it out and find the 2 grape vines that had survived in that mess. [ For those of you Not from Western Pa, a Jagger is any plant that has a thorn on it to jag you with, a black berry, a rose bush, multi floral rose, raspberrys etc ] We have alot of Jagger bushes around here,
The Jaggers that are growing around my grapes are Multi Floral Rose bushes. I hate that stuff, it is hard to kill, hard to dig out and the Jaggers really hurt when they get you. It is not native to Pa, the State Game commission brought it in as wild life habitate many years ago.
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