Good day dear mates! So it's time to continue my garden journal. I hope this part become also attractive for you as it was with the first part which was published several days ago.
This part I thought to start just continuing to tell you how changed my garden since April, but weather and nature brought some changes in my plans. So weather for this three days show me how it can be unpredictable and strong. Just my garden started blooming and almost all plants gave it's buds but yesterday evening I received from local weather service frost warning come in tonight. And unfortunately, that is exactly what happened. Today, when I came to my garden, I saw that the fox vines and the leaves of the Manchurian walnut were damaged by frost. they literally turned black.
The good news is that the inflorescences of the Manchurian walnut are green, some leaves are still intact, and I hope that in September we will be able to collect fruits from this tree. Crossed fingers馃馃馃
When this morning I talked with my neighbors some of them told me that their tomatoes, papers and some other plants were also damaged with frost this night.
Now let's move on. On photo below, you can see not only the cherry blossoms, which I talked about earlier, but also the blooming Amelanchier at the back stage.
I planted this bush of Amelanchier or, more precisely, a tree, considering how high it grew, in 2015. Since then, Amelanchier has pleased us with its berries every year. This plant bears fruit abundantly and our family manages not only to eat fresh berries, but we also make compotes from them and dry them for the winter time.
Strawberries, fortunately, were not affected by night frosts.
Strawberry seedlings that overwintered from the greenhouse have already begun to bloom.
Gooseberries, fortunately also survived past frosts without loss and we are waiting for a rich harvest of its berries in July.
In my garden I grow both green and red varieties of gooseberries and my family loves them all.
During these few days, I also managed to plant seedlings of tomatoes and cucumbers seeds in greenhouse in the soil.
Here cucumbers seeds were planted in the soil. Hope in the next part I can show them growing green and high.
In addition, in open soil, I planted zucchini and peas for children.
Of course, now you only see their landing sites, but as soon as they give the first sprouts, I will tell you more about them!
And here is a columnar apple tree.
It was planted in a permanent place 3 years ago. Last year it didn't endure the winter well, but I hope we will see the first fruits soon.
Also this year I have a lot of rowan seedlings. At the same time, I understand that I don't have enough space to grow all these seedlings in my garden.
But I have a plan this year to try to sell these rowan seedlings. Of course, to find buyers, I will have to spend time and bring them into a marketable one, I hope the result will be worth the effort.
This spring, I am very pleased with the greenery of Eleutherococcus bushes.
In the fall, I plan to make an alcohol tincture of them, and leave a part for jam or for making tea.
That's all for May now I think dear friends. But June promises to be also very interesting and productive for me in gardening area!
Stay tuned! Yours @travoved!
All images in this post were taken by me!