What have you done today in the Garden?

Looks like it's going to rain again.

 

@Logan - this looks like a photo Really lovely.

It is a rainy day today. I will be going out shortly to take the remay hail protection off of the plants ( once I'm sure it won't happen today again) and spend a little time in the greenhouse trimming tomato plants and training the cucumbers.

 

Thanks Melody Mc it's from the kitchen window that's at the front of the house,so i can see what's going on.

 

Picked some blackcurrants and pink currants

Gooseberries

 

You have done very well, Loggie.
Those pics look gorgeous.

 

Is the bottom picture gooseberries? If so, they are beautiful! Actually, whatever they are, they are beautiful.

 

@Logan - I would be very happy to tap into your gooseberry ideas. They grow wild here along the creek, but are smaller and darker. I had a huge gooseberry bush that I dug up and passed on to a new arrival so that I could free up space in the lower garden. And...I have wee gooseberries popping up in my raspberries hahahaha

I took a seedling and placed it way high up - away from the garden propper.

I've made gooseberry pie ( much to my charign - with pulling off all of the stems and blossoms and it went to the compost half way finished ). I've made Gooseberry rhubarb jam and wine.

My step Mom that I loved very much was from England and loved Gooseberries....but somehow I always seemed to be the one to pull the stems and blossoms.

 

Our grapes are coming along , by July will have some nice green grapes. If the deer don’t get them. I always wrap in netting to keep the deer and birds out.
Blackberries soon..

 

Thank you all. @Melody Mc. what sort of things do you want to know about gooseberries? Yes @marlingardener they're gooseberries.

 

Not much to day as it was "shopping day" but I did prune a loty of unwanted growth on the wisteria between the shed and the tea-house. These unwanted side shoots grow inches every day.
Watching the tennis.
May mow the lawn later.

 

Was going to do some deadheading but when i was able to do it, it started raining.

 

I watered sweetcorn. It doesn't look like much yet but where there is life, there's hope. Ran the drip system for most of the garden. Squashes have lots of flowers, females only so far. There are small tomatoes on some of the tomato plants.

Many of the perennials that I started last winter have flower buds - gallardias, rudbeckias, carnations. A few sweetpeas are blooming. The volunteer poppies are almost bloomed out. The one ratibida that survived being planted where critters run amok, has flower buds. That is more than I expected.

 

Potted on some of the small wallflower plants.

 

I've never grown wallflowers. Are they a challenge?

 

Today I installed bird flash tape over the raspberries.


I did some TLC for the fig trees.

Watered the pawpaw trees and an aspen tree I planted last winter.

Harvested the first of the garlic, to be used in some black bean chili. Each year I save some of the crop to plant again in the fall. They are not dry enough yet for digging for storage.



Good size cloves.


Tomorrow: Watering, plant marigold and cleome seedlings. Bird scare tape for blueberries and more figs.