More garden pics

Tulips and Irises at the side of the house. I am going to plant morning glory to climb up the trellis to the left of the window.
























These are the red currants I planted in the early spring. They are doing very well and you can see the currants are already starting to form.











Here is the snow apple. I planted it in the fall but
the top 2 feet were eaten by rodents.























Here is the chain link fence. I hope to finish this weekend.












Here is the russet apple tree. I took off a large branch off the upper right side. I plan to take off another large branch next year and one more the year after that until I have only horizontal branches. This tree has been neglected for 20 years, but it still produces great tasting apples, albeit small. I'm still waiting for apples from this tree as well.

May 16th, 2008

It is almost the May 24th long weekend and I start work at the LCBO tomorrow. I have been building a chain link fence over the last 2 weeks and it is almost finished. I will be supporting my tomatoes on the chain link fence.
I tilled the garden in the fall and added manure to amend the exisiting soil.

The first picture shows the garlic I planted in the fall. I have elephant garlic as well as a Thai variety.

Here are the onions. The first row was planted in the middle of April and the next two rows were planted 2 weeks and 4 weeks later, respectively. The first row are multiplier onions and the other rows are yellow onions. They were planted from sets and I plan to use some for green onions and let others mature.

The other rows are green and red romaine. They were bought at the Bradford greenhouses and transplanted on May 10th.

Here is the McIntosh tree. It was planted at least 20 years ago, but has been shaded from the north side for most of its life.

I pruned of a large branch this winter that blocked a lot of light from the lower branches. I also trimmed off many of the downward facing fruiting spurs. I am still waiting for flower buds; I may have been too drastic with the pruning.

Here is a close-up of the leaves. (McIntosh)