Daily Archives: May 25, 2009

Oh, no!  It hailed today.  It started out as quite a downpour of water, and I was a bit concerned that it might hail....later on my fears came true.  The hail was pea-sized.  The only real damage I've seen so far is some of the leaves on the peppers were pretty badly beaten.  The basil was a bit sad looking and a few marks on some tomato leaves.  All in all, I guess things turned out ok.  At least we didn't have ripe fruit being bombarded.I picked some basil tonight, walked in and put it right o ...

This morning I doused all the plants with "manure tea", with thanks to my helper on the other side of the fence.  I pruned the suckers off the tomatoes and planted some more marigold seeds.   The broccoli is noticeably bigger, and so are the kale plants.  The brussels sprout seeds have sprouted.  The leeks & celery look good.  I think there are buds on the watermelon plants.On inspection, we've seen a couple of asparagas shoots begin to appear, which is a relief, because we were beginning to ...