End of an Era
But good enough pants for working in the yard. Into the trash, and another pair demoted (promoted?) to daily use in the garden, sprayed with bug spray when the mosquitoes get too annoying, washed periodically.
I am keeping up with fertilizing by using the weakly, weekly, actually mostly biweekly, method, starting with the powdered mix, except for the strawberries. Those get 1/2 teaspoon tucked into their pockets on the plant stand. So far, only the white ones are producing. Flowers on the red ones give me hope. The papayas are flourishing, and the Roma tomatoes are growing well, with little flowers appearing last week. I germinated radishes but didn’t transplant them deep enough. I’ve done better on the most recent set. Onions and leeks look good.
Grant and I trimmed our neighbor’s mango way back to give our bananas more light. I also cut down the sad navel orange down near the canal and planted what I hope are the plantains from Patten in its area. While I was there, I chopped down all the Brazilian pepper I could find and painted root killer on the stalks. I should have spray painted the stump nubs with the bright pink paint too so I can find them easily for another round. There is more pepper on the south end which will be attacked another time.
I dug up the 3 free range pineapples from the front yard, and Grant replanted them in our pineapple plantation by the boat house. To keep the bunnies from chomping on the tender shoots, I put pig wire around the area. They don’t seem to eat the bigger plants, so I hope I can take down that fencing once all the pineapples get to be 18” or so. TBD.
The Seminole pumpkin vines continue to flower with a couple of new pumpkins. I’m using it as a ground cover near the clothesline and chip path.
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