Evening glow in the greenhouse

Evening glow in the greenhouse
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Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Diary 2/14/12

Happy Valentine's Day to all!  I find with Garden Girl's return, I am less able to blog, partly because I am busier all day and partly because I fade quickly at night.  She has been better behaved, and we are having some potty success, so there is progress. It is cold and wet outside, but I want to get the Walla Walla onions started today even if nothing happens for a week or two.  Just getting a seed bed ready and them in the ground will be something.  Footnote to the Grammys: Whitney with her beautiful face and voice may be gone, but there are new voices and faces as Adele has proved. Planted a HoneyCrisp apple tree yesterday.  We have another to plant.  We have really enjoyed them from the market, so maybe in a few years, have our own.  Evidently they are crossed with yellow delicious which though good keepers and crunchy, border on too sweet at times. Hoping for a good start for these little trees which will inspire some maintenance on our old trees.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Diary 10/26/11

Cold start and freeze this morning.  Some basil froze, as well as a touch down on one area of tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse.  Not supposed to be that cold again for a few days as clouds pass by.  No big change until the middle of next week, but better get my last garlic in and transplant leeks, choi, and lettuce before it does get rainy.  Apples should be sweetening and ready for boxing up for winter use. They need a couple frosts to give them their "sugar core".  We have quite a few Yellow Delicious and I think some Macintoshes.