richard-in-cincy
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The yard work has been keeping me very busy. I've been busy planting all of the tomatoes, peppers, okra, tomatillos, onions, corn, beans, cucumbers, melons, squash, etc. But of course had to clear out space to double the garden this year and it took 4 weeks to clean out a thick jungle of ivy, euonymus, Virginia creeper, honeysuckle, maple seedlings, etc. Oy. That's hard work.
This past week has been non-stop cherry. Our Montmorency tree had a bumper crop this year and we spent days picking and pitting cherries and then making all sorts of wonderfulness and putting some up for later. We finally gave out after 20 lbs. of cherries and opened up the tree to friends to have at it.
And now that the spring bulb garden is finally winding down, it's time to tackle planting all of the annuals to replace them. I have a fine mix of purple, pink, and white angelonia, 4 shades of pink zinnias, pink and burgundy cosmos, blue salvias, hot fuchsia pink new guinea impatiens, pink dahlias, and some bronze canna spikes for some accents. Hopefully it will all come together.
I need a full time gardener.
The finally tally was:
1 luscious cinnamon cherry pie
6 pints of cherry jam (to stuff torte layers and the Christmas Spitzbuben jam sandwich cookies for Christmas)
2 gallons of pitted cherries in the freezer
2 gallons of Cherry-Bourbon Cordial and
1 gallon of Cherry Liqueur macerating in the basement
This past week has been non-stop cherry. Our Montmorency tree had a bumper crop this year and we spent days picking and pitting cherries and then making all sorts of wonderfulness and putting some up for later. We finally gave out after 20 lbs. of cherries and opened up the tree to friends to have at it.
And now that the spring bulb garden is finally winding down, it's time to tackle planting all of the annuals to replace them. I have a fine mix of purple, pink, and white angelonia, 4 shades of pink zinnias, pink and burgundy cosmos, blue salvias, hot fuchsia pink new guinea impatiens, pink dahlias, and some bronze canna spikes for some accents. Hopefully it will all come together.
I need a full time gardener.
The finally tally was:
1 luscious cinnamon cherry pie
6 pints of cherry jam (to stuff torte layers and the Christmas Spitzbuben jam sandwich cookies for Christmas)
2 gallons of pitted cherries in the freezer
2 gallons of Cherry-Bourbon Cordial and
1 gallon of Cherry Liqueur macerating in the basement