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["Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>]

No posts in 9 days?  Is everyone harvesting?

 

What little news I have here:  My bagged pomegranates are reddening up.  We’ll see how they do.  The squirrels tore a corner off a couple bags, but the bags are intact and the fruit undamaged.

 

I wrote last year of my inedibly bitter plums here at the new house.  With a couple years of TLC, this year they filled out, sweetened up, and look like Damsons.  Wow.

 

I’ve given up on the soil here.  I plan to till under my attempt at garden and cover crop the whole yard with a tilth-builidng, nitrogen-adding, beneficial insect friendly, grass-choking mix: bell beans, winter peas, a couple vetches, and oats.  We’ll see if I can actually grow something next year.  I haven’t dared to put small fruits in after the strawberries did so very poorly.

 

That’s all the news from Garden Wobegon…

 

~ S