Garden

2023

June 29

Concord grape cuttings that I took in the winter. Only one survived. In a cereal box lined with a plastic bag because I don't own a deep enough pot.
Apricot that I grew from seed. Also the only seed that survived cold stratification.
Purpetua highbush blueberry bush that I got on sale for $10 last year. Gonna have lots of berries but I need to plant it somewhere.
Chili pepper plant grown from seeds from Dollar Tree. Claims that this cultivar holds the world record for pepper size, but I planted it too late so we'll see if I get anything from it at all.
Half of this row are normal radishes and the other half are supposed to be black, white, yellow and purple. The garden centre gave those ones away for free.
The entire plot. There's carrots to the left of the radishes and more peppers to the left of that. They're most orange and purple bell peppers but there's one Shepard in there too.
We have two apple trees: one Spy and one seedling that's a bit like a McIntosh.
Black rot has been terrible historically. We sprayed them with oil and it seems to be a bit better (last year at this point the leaves were turning yellow and falling off lol)
Plum curculio also does a number on the fruit. We used Pyrethin and clay but it doesn't seem to help much.
I'm also growing hardy kiwi (A. arguta) on this trellis my dad and I built. He put chicken wire around the plants because the bunnies kept eating them. The grapes will go on the further end.
The male plant is the cultivar 'Andrew'.
The female plant is a Ken's Red which is supposed to give up to 100 lbs of fruit a year.
Some pomegranate seedlings I'm growing inside. Not sure what I'll do with them because I don't think they can survive outside here (zone 6).
Another kiwi plant, but it's a fuzzy kiwi I grew from seed. I left it outside and it got sunburnt :(.
My favourite part of the garden :D.

July