Strawberries and tomatoes

As it happens, yesterday I wasn’t able to harvest my own alpine strawberry seeds. By the time I arrived to the garden, early morning, little plastic box in hand, the pretty strawberry I had photographed the day before was gone.

As it happens, I also ordered seeds and they came today – so my preparations weren’t wasted, I started them today.

Also, in the garden there were some Green Thumb seedlings – way bigger than mine. I took 4 tomatoes and planted them on the roof. It remains to be seen what kind of tomatoes they are.

Today was a cloudy, cooler day, good for planting and transplanting.

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Upstairs, downstairs berries

In the garden, a wild strawberry is ripening. Tomorrow I shall eat it and harvest the seeds which I’ll immediately plant

Upstairs, one of the wineberries saplings I planted there will produce fruit

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Upstairs, Downstairs update

Upstairs, the raspberry is starting to produce buds

It’s later than last year, but the cold weather might have had a role.

Downstairs, the wineberries are full of buds,

some of which had opened

.Also, some wild strawberries are coming in

I had propped up the wineberries and potato in the garden – the rain yesterday toppled them down.

.It’s strange how everything is so behind last year. considering the very warm March and April we had. I guess a cold week in May canceled it all.

I ordered some more wild strawberries seed. If it comes in time, I’ll have the gardening club plant then and follow them up.

.Sometimes last night it must have rained. There was no need for me to water anything today.

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Gardening Club – May 5

Today we started the children’s plot at Dias Y Flores.

The kids prepped the soil – digging and adding compost

.After that, they planted a wineberry bush

,some strawberries

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,and some chives

.The morning glories seeds planted last week sprouted by the garden fence

.and also, the scarlet runners on the roof

.This is the “before” shot of our roof. Once the beans  will grow they’ll be visible from the street

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On the roof: raspberry, seedlings and such

I transplanted my raspberry in a bigger pot a few days ago

It’s doing way better than my hands that suffered a bit

because of the pulling the plant out of the old pot.

I also planted some gogosar and tomato seedlings from the cold frame and one of the cloned

wineberries from the plot

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Gardening club: planting fence coverings

We started our session on the roof where we planted scarlet runner beans

.along the roof fence facing 1st Avenue

.this way, when the beans will start climbing

.they’ll be visible to them from the street

when they leave school

.Later we went to the garden and planted morning glory seeds

also along the fence

.and now we’ll wait for them to come up

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Gardening club: planting seedlings and more seeds

The second session of the gardening club took place in Dias Y Flores garden.

We planted some of the Hyacinth beans seedlings

.and a week later they look like this

.We also planted some spinach and mustard seeds

.still waiting for them to come up

Next week: planting scarlet runners on the roof

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