garden update

[mellowtigger]

I intended to step outside to do a small bit of gardening today. The sun happens to be shining at the moment, after a few days of on-and-off rain. The rain begins again in a few more hours, and it's forecast to continue... well, for the reasonable future forecast of many days. It's apparently a side effect of that heat dome over the eastern coast.

It's swampy out there. I decided that I just didn't want to spend more time in that sultry heat. Honestly, it's only 30C/87F air temp and 34C/93F heat index, but... I just don't want to today.

I still have a few cherries on the tree, but most of them dropped despite my adding a water drip for many days (until the rain) this year. For the very first time, I have peaches. There are dozens and dozens of "Red Haven" peaches (pictured at right), but that tree seems stressed too, with tiny peaches all over the ground around that tree. For the very first time, I have a handful of apples too, both on the regular "Northwestern Greening" apple tree and one of the "North Pole" columnar apple trees. Everything is still a long while from being ripe, and I hope some of the fruits survive the ripening time so I can taste them this year.

And I really need to get the back yard under control. Soon after all of this rain has finally stopped falling. And after I paint those 2 remaining windows. But not today.