Edgewise Woods Garden-June 6, 2014

The older strawberries are ripening

to the tune of a quart or so every other day. I freeze some, we blend them into morning protein smoothies and last night I made custard sauce and an angel food cake to go with them. Yum. Usually I make shortcake biscuits for the custard sauce but I decided to use up some surplus eggs and used 18 yolks for the custard and 9 whites for the cake. Got 9 left in the fridge. The chickens are laying more than I can keep up with ( I hate washing eggs) and I need to sell more.

The blueberries look like there will be a good crop.

The potato plants are really huge and I have just mulched them with cardboard to keep the weeds down. I was hoping to hill them up a second time but they grew too fast for me. Now I need to clean out the barn and mulch them with that.

The Sugar Snap Peas have grown over the top of their fence but the

combo of rebar, plastic deer netting and baling twine is holding them up quite well. We have gotten a couple of gallon buckets of them so far. The spinach did well and we ate a bunch but it is bolting now and sort of bitter- still OK for a sandwich but not so good for salads. Some kind of beetle was eating the young green bean plants but it has backed off and the ones the bunny didn’t mow are doing well. There was a bunny in there one day and when I sikked the dogs on her she somehow managed to squeeze herself through the 2×4 inch horse wire and got away. Jeff found her empty nest later when he was cleaning the fenceline.

 Iris’s, clematis, and honeysuckle are all blooming now. I have just ordered four more German Iris varieties online from www.americanmeadows.com   to arrive for September planting.  I have also ordered a couple new daffodil types as most of mine are white and I want some more colors.

-Wendy lee Maddox, Edgewisewoods.com, 6/6/14