1999
*set out second blueberry bush - Blue Ray - second from south [in east row].
*planted tulip bulbs from red potted tulips Love gave me - along east fence outside pool area
*planted 30 Brodiaea corms (Queen Fabiola) from Wal-Mart - along north and east fence outside pool area
*discovered astilbe is alive - I thought it died last summer.
*newly in bloom: yellow tulips & grape hycinth
*bought metal swing set for Skye - purple!

1995
*set out raspberries from Wisty
*set out 26 Surecrop strawberry plants from Ames

2009
*raspberries coming up

2008
*set out semi-dwarf apple trees: William's Pride, Mollies Delight, Stayman Winesap, & Arkansas Black
*cut back raspberries bushes
*harvested 14 pounds unshelled pecans
*harvested mustard for supper & to freeze
*planted 5 hickory nuts in a pot after soaking 5 days; planted only those that sank; discarded those that floated

2008
*harvested trailerload of pine straw from nearby roadside; spread on paths in Kitchen Garden; will spread remaining straw on blueberry patch
*harvested 9 1/2 pounds pecans, unshelled -- more on ground
*continuing raspberry harvest (waning)
*harvested 3 pounds apples for caramel apple jam

2008
*rain: 1/10"
*raspberry harvest: 1 cup, mostly Heritage

2008
*1st mustard harvest
*probable last cucumber harvest - 2 cucumbers - only very tiny ones remaining on vine
*dwindling raspberry harvest

2008
*weeded & hoed part of overgrown section of temporary vegetable garden
*planted small section of Bloomsdale spinach, Buttercrunch lettuce, Imperator carrots & Tendergreen mustard
*mustard planted Sept 6 is up
*harvested cherry tomatoes & chocolate bell peppers
*continuing raspberry harvest: picked 1/2 cup from Heritage red bushes
*picked off 4 hornworms from tomatoes & peppers

2008
*continuing raspberry harvest: picked 2 cups from red Heritage & golden Anne bushes

2008
*continuing raspberry harvest: picked 2 cups from red Heritage & golden Anne

2008
*continuing raspberry harvest: 1 cup of Heritage berries

2008
*continuing raspberry harvest - picked 1 cup from Heritage bushes

2008
*rain: 3-day total of 4 & 7/10" - remnants of Hurricane Gustav
*continuing raspberry harvest - picked 2 cups today from Heritage bushes
*began selective harvest of Fuji apples as dessert apples -- slightly green taste, but good -- plan to continue slow harvest to reduce stress on heavily laden branches

2008
*picked first berry from golden raspberry 'Anne' bushes

2008
*final blueberry harvest

2001
*canned 12 pts salsa

1999
*harvesting raspberries (for table)

1998
*peaches ripe on tree #2