Gardening May 2020 HG
May 2020 Saturday 2 May Connie and I are picking up sticks in the park and I am mowing about 2 hours or so per day. Pick salads every morning. My lettuce is as good as it ever was. The cinnamon is taller and easier to pick but the others are doing well. They need a weed. The English peas are ending with little results. Only a couple messes. The sugar snaps are few as well and I have enough to add a few to the daily salads. Every year is different. The orchid is in bloom finally. One plant, one stalk, one flower. Certainly not the display I had last year. Mother’s Day is next Sunday and I used to have lots of roses at Belvidire to cut for the house. Roses here not so good. What am I doing wrong? The Peggy Martin continues and the whites in the white bed. The Chestnut rose throws blooms sparingly. The pink on the potager fence has begun. The first bloom of the gardenia I cut yesterday for the ta...