It looks like this is going to be a weird year for fruit. The spring was both unusually cold and unusually rainy even by Olympic peninsula standards, and that persisted until the second week of summer; since then, we’ve had a cool summer broken by a week-long heat wave. The apple trees seem to be producing a lot of fruit, but the blackberry vines are acting really peculiar (lots of tiny green berries and a few big, plump black ones, but nothing red). And while one of my tomato plants has six or eight nicely-developing tomatoes, the other six plants have a few little flowers but no fruit. Sure, it’s still early; last year most of them were ready in September, but I’d expect to see something by now; maybe I need to fertilize them more or something. And if the apples turn out to be small, I guess I’ll still have enough for apple butter, and the pigs will enjoy the drops.
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Diary #736
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