Green Beans

 I planted a bed of green beans.

April planting

 Today I bought the following from Home Depot and planted them in the garden:

• 2 little blueberry plants
• 2 6-packs of strawberries
• Sweet mint
• Peppermint
• Husky Red Cherry Tomato
• Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato
• Japanese Eggplant
• Japanese Cucumber
• Giant Marconi Pepper
• Sweet Yellow Pepper

Spring Flowers

From Home Depot:

• Ice plant (lampranthus)
• Ranunculus (Ruby's "rose")
• Marigold
• Lamium
• Viola
• African daisy
• Pansy
• 100 Onions starts
• 3 heads of planting garlic
• Some pea pods we saved from last year

From Star Nursery:

• Gerbera daisy
• Lobelia
• Alyssum
• Osteospermum
• Lemon slice
• Petunia
• Early girl (They gave us 2 free starts. I put one in the front yard and one in a container so we can take it in at night.)
• Sweet Italian Basil
• Artichoke

Grandma gave us some Cone flowers that we scattered around too.

Grandpa gave us some daffodils

We also bought a female pistachio tree but I forgot to plant it.

Goodbye shade

We had the Ash tree cut down on February 12, 2021.

They also transplanted the pecan to where the fig was. The tree bag idea was a failure. They just dug it out of the ground with a shovel. It didn't even look like they were careful of the roots.

Pruned the Apricot Tree

I made the time to prune the apricot tree today.

I cut a little more than I have in the past and tried to open it up a bit so the branches weren't as crowded and running into each other. And I also used the saw on some of the larger ones growing branches that were out of reach.

Some of the branches that looked dead. Should I be worried about that?

And I found a weird growth. I really hope the tree isn't on its way out because we sure do love the fruit!

 

Another Tree Consult

 We had the same tree professional come out again. This time he said the ash tree is probably not going to recover.

He suggested planting a mulberry to replace it.

He noticed some borer damage on the almonds and suggested spraying with dormant oil.

He had no idea why one of our pistachio trees died soon after he worked on it the first time.

By the way, a few days ago I planted some garlic in the front yard.