5 Acres & A Dream: Garden Notes: May 2024

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Rainfall

  • 3th: 2.17″
  • sixth: 1.57″
  • eighth: 0.13″
  • ninth: 2.4″
  • 13-14th: 0.92″
  • fifteenth: 0.04″
  • seventeenth: 0.12″
  • 18th: 0.01″
  • nineteenth: 0.69″
  • twenty third: 0.15″
  • twenty fifth: 0.09″
  • Complete to date: 8.29 inches

Temperature

  • vary of nighttime lows: 48 to 65°F (9 to 18°C)
  • vary of daytime highs: 65 to 86°F (18 to 30°C)

Climate Notes

  • Hail on the sixth
  • Very moist month, with fairly just a few days of drizzle and no accumulation.
  • As a result of the temps are gentle, moisture stays within the floor and would not
    evaporate proper out (one in every of our worst issues in sizzling summer time).

Planted

  • pole beans, Cornfield
  • peanuts
  • buckwheat
  • summer time squash, Tatume
  • okra, Clemson Spineless
  • sunflowers, Russian Mammoth
  • cantaloupe, Hale’s Greatest
  • pearl millet
  • collards
  • pepper vegetation

Harvested

  • lettuce
  • strawberries
  • snow peas
  • wild lettuce
  • chickweed
  • kale
  • mulberries
  • oregano
  • asparagus
  • pink raspberries
  • peppermint
  • greenhouse potatoes
  • hopniss
  • horseradish root

Backyard Images

Besides there are not any precise photographs of the backyard!

Early Could meant a flush of strawberries, and so our first
strawberry
shortcake of the 12 months with homegrown whipped cream.

Edible pod peas and pink raspberries.

Pea and peanut salad with a dollop of mayonnaise.
Greenhouse potato harvest. Not so much, however I did not
plant
so much. I would name it a profitable experiment!

Mulberries

Mulberry pancakes

After which, since Dan has been speaking about pineapple, I assumed I would make him
an upside-down cake, substituting mulberries for these yucky candied cherries.
Sadly, after I turned it out of the pan . . .

Upside-down cake fail

I believe it is because I reduce on the sugar and butter, as a result of I reduce
on sugar and butter in all my muffins. That works for the cake, however did not give
me sufficient sauce for the pineapple and berries. So it caught to the pan! Nevertheless it
nonetheless tasted good and I realized a lesson for subsequent time.

Your flip. How does your backyard develop?

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