2009
*continued potato harvest: 22 lbs 9 oz Yukon Gold, 1 lb 8 oz red

2001
*canned 8 pts green beans

1999
*picked first tomatoes of season

1997
*daylily bloom count: 39

2008
*rain: 1/10 inches

2002
*harvested potatoes & onions
*planted Merit corn, black-eyed peas, and straight 8 cucumbers

2001
*set out 2 daylilies: Halleluah Chorus & Mrs. Aaron

1997
*daylily bloom count: 26
*in bloom: liatris, sunflowers, astilbe, spider wort, rudbekia, & butterfly bush

2009
*1/2" rain
*began potato harvest: red - 7 lbs, 3 oz & Yukon Gold 14 lbs, 14 oz
*set out 2 daylilies & 2 irises from Mother's before rain -- daylilies & blue iris in flower row on southeast corner of Pantry Garden, brown iris in "island" within Cottage Garden

2008
*rain: 1/2 inch

2003
*harvested 6 pts blueberries

2002
*froze 28 ears corn & 2 qts onion

2001
*began main potato harvest

2000
*canned 9 pts of green beans; froze 2 pts

1999
*dug 1 hill potatoes - small but rotting from rain
*pool: 87F
*harvested first apples from William's Pride tree - windfalls

2002
*froze 5 oz jalepeno peppers
*harvested 1 pt blueberries

2001
*canned 6 1/2 pts plum butter

1999
*rain: 1+"

1996
*in bloom: Sister Ruth daylily, cock's combs, sunflowers

1995
*canned 4 pts pickled beets - Butter 'n' Love, p 129

2008
rain: 1/2 inch

2002
*harvested 1st potatoes

2001
*harvest 4 oz blueberries

1999
*1 2/10" rain
*daylily count: 20 blooms

1997
*in bloom: hostas

1996
*found and protected wild rose inside pool fence [mistake!]

Summer Soltice

2001
*straight line winds - lost 1 plum (loaded with fruit) and 1 pecan - power out 2 hours

1999
*3/10" rain
*in bloom: big yellow daylily

2009
*harvested onions
*pulled up & composed radishes, spinach, & garden peas
*noted chives, cilantro, & basil up

2001
*harvested 5 oz blueberries (aprx 1/2 pt)

1996
*began swim season

2008
*rain: 1/4 inch

2002
*rain: 7/10 inch

2001
*harvested 20 oz blueberries

1996
*in bloom: bee balm & spiderwort

2009
*3/4" rain

2002
*8/10" rain

2001
*bought patio furniture

1999
*9/10" rain
*newly in bloom: Grand Ways daylily
*also in bloom: yellow mums

2001
*planted radishes, lettuce, and mustard (2nd planting)

2001
*set out blueberry bushes
*set out dwarf Fuji apples & Brown Turkey fig

2009
*3/4" rain

2001
*set out blueberry bush

1999
*pruned pear & plum trees
*pruned #3 peach trees heavily
*marked limbs to be sawed off peach trees
*marked site to move vegetable garden to site behind house

2001
*planted potatoes: 2 1/2 lbs Yudon Gold and 2 lbs Red Pontiac
*planted 2 parsley plants (curled leaf)
*radishes sprouting (planted March 10)

1999
*pruned Polish Spirit clematis back to 12"
*pruned #2 peach tree and three apple trees

1995
*set out 'Polish Spirit' clematis and 'Serrata Pink' hydrangea [which blooms blue]

2001
*dormant oil spray on pear, sweet cherry, apple, apricot, Starkling Delicious plum, and peach
*Ozark Premiere plum and Lucille plum leaving out
*tilled garden spot and added row on east side
*planted: Cherry ball radishes, Danvers carrots, sugar snap peas, Little Marvel peas, Detroit Red beets, Bloomsdale spinach, Florida Broadleaf mustard, buttercrunch lettuce, and prizehead lettuce
*set out: 5 Packman brocolli plants and 7 red-leaf lettuce plants

2008
*final blueberry harvest

2001
*canned 12 pts salsa

1999
*harvesting raspberries (for table)

1998
*peaches ripe on tree #2

2001
*froze 15 pts apples

1994
*canned 5 1/2 pts wild cherry jelly - bitter!

2001
*planted 3 1/2 rows purple hull peas
*finished harvesting potatoes - aprx. 13 gallons