Garden 2012
 

So this appears to be a Verry early year for planting ,
the Aperagoose has gone WILD , this ALL was cut to the Ground thursday ,
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thats a Large can of wasp spray for size comparison
Oh and this one was cut to the ground thursday as well
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Geeze look at the size of that thing !!!!!!!!!

Tomatos and the such next weekend

and yes Feetz if the weather keeps dgetting This warm This early i may try a Pineapple plant

Blessed synchronicity.
I was out taking photos of Penny about half an hour ago.
She's pregnant! Well, blooming anyway. Each blossom is a potential cherry, although I don't expect too much from her this year.
At least it proves I followed the pruning instructions correctly. Or at least didn't kill her.

Ooh, just found this... here she is last year (Cellar post with a SFW youtube clip on an account I no longer use).

Crikey me she's shot up. This time last year she would have been (as I say in the vid) just a barren stick. I thought she was two years with me already.

So as you can see below, she has blossoms out and leaves a-coming.
And look at how her pruned branches are thickening. Yay. Proud first time tree wrangler.

Yes, I know. I need to stake her better this growing year :)

We got MATERS !!!!!!! and peppers and Zucks , and More Asparagoosees
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Blimey Zips.
Fecundity!

Penny and the strawbs look exactly the same as they did at the beginning of the month.
Then again, we've had frosts and hail and all that. April here is barely Spring.

Thanks Sunday ,
We have had near to and low 80 for a while ,,
sorta coldish , rainey ,and windy for the last few days

Low 80s are what we hope for in Summer!

Is Penny a tree? If so, don't stake her. Staking trees is an old, misguided attempt at giving the tree a leg up. In fact, unless the tree is in an extremely high wind area staking actually weakens the tree's root development.

The root development is a response to the regular forces of wind blowing the tree about. It's what tells the tree it needs to make strong roots.

carry on.

I think the correct term is asparageese.

Great looking garden! Love super-fresh food.

Dude, I woke up to snow this morning...

:love:

Children too, although don't leave them out in a tornado....

I assumed we had to because she was in a pot. Her roots will never be able to go any deeper than that.
I'm all for taking the stake away if you think the pot thing is irrelevant.

ETA I've been doing some reading around.
The stake goes! Hurray! Setting my baby free!!!

Anchor the pot, though, otherwise the whole thing could tip over in strong wind.

She's quite wonky.
This bears careful scrutiny.

Will also have to persuade dad, as if I don't mention it I will come home to find her firmly re-staked.

or...

leave the stake and just sabotage it by cutting the ties.