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Saturday, May 8, 2010

May update

Flowering Cactus

This is pretty much an excuse to put up some pictures. I don't really have much to say so I'll just describe the pictures I'm posting. At Great Outdoors I bought a Satsuma orange tree. It's on the left, sitting flush on the ground. Its the most cold-hardy of the citrus (outside kumquats) and they are well-suited to Austin. We're going to try to put it in the ground rather than keeping it in pots like we have done with the lemon and key lime.

The Pomegranate tree has started to flower, putting out little bell-shaped blossoms. Actually its pretty neat because we can see pomegranates blooming all over Austin as we drive around, although I think most of them are ornamental, not fruit producing.

The blueberry bushes have also set fruit:

Now onto the garden. I took this picture about two weeks after the last picture. It gives you an idea of how well the four plants are producing:

Unfortunately the pea plants died after this crop. They may have been burned out (because its been 85 degrees without rain for a few days) or they may have just died out because that's all for this season. I had heard that it was really hard to grow snow peas here in Texas, so maybe it was a combination of the both. I ended up pulling the plants and composting them. I didn't bother to replant the square though:

I also trimmed the tomato plants (the indeterminate ones), removing the lower stems up to the ones with the blossoms on them. Some tomatoes have set, mostly on the cherry tomato. sorry for the out-of-focus shot:

The peppers are also growing, including this sweet pickler:


We planted the Mexican plum tree in the front yard this afternoon and are planning on getting the xeriscaping underway in the next few weeks. We went and checked out a rock yard the other day and I checked out a bunch of plants, so I'll try and post that when we get going on it, even though its not technically about the garden.

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