The berry cascade
Our berry cascade is
getting ready to change its melody. Strawberries are still rolling in
but...
...we ate the first red
raspberry Sunday.
Meanwhile, black
raspberry bushes are absolutely loaded and the first few fruits are
beginning to blush red.
The surviving
blueberries are similarly laden with young fruits despite their winter
transplant. One of the three is showing an iron deficiency due to
high pH, though, so I consulted The
Ultimate Guide to Soil
and ordered some iron sulfate to speed up the pH
transition. (Yes, I do look for answers in my own books. That's the
point of writing them, right?)
Meanwhile, in the kiwi
bower, petals are beginning to drop...and plump ovaries are being
left behind. I'm still trying not to count my kiwis before they ripen,
but conditions are looking good for a first harvest this year sometime
in October.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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This looks more like lack of manganese, don't you think? Let us consult 'The Intelligent Gardener' for once