April Showers

I started planting in the garden last week. The cucumbers didn’t make it, it was cold at night and super hot during the day and now it’s starting all over again sowing cucumber seeds in the garden. The lemongrass stalks that I purchased from the Asian Market started to take roots and I planted them outside yesterday.

Next to the lemongrass is the Thai Basil.

Bo’s mom gave me the onions and they looked better yesterday. They looked so sad after today’s heavy rain.

The mints are doing great.

PaNoy gave me these plants last Sunday at the temple. I was busy photographing the Songkran Festival and didn’t have a chance to ask him what they are. I will need to know before planting them. The Songkran Festival was a lot of fun, I will make a post soon. Here is the link to the Songkran Festival 2017 Album.

My tomato plants are thin and frail looking, I don’t think they will make it outside. I purchased a few young tomato plants at Lowes and they are expensive. Next year I will need to sow the tomato seeds in early January.  The ones that I have now will be okay to plant in the Summer.

I sowed the Sugar Snap Peas in the garden last week and it’s sprouting.

The Okra came up also, I saved too many seed pods last year and only need one pod for this row. I see that the weeds came up also, lots of weeding in the weeks ahead.

Lots of leaves for the blueberries, and only a few young blueberries.

The persimmons look promising this year, this is the second year and hope to have a few fruits to harvest in the Fall.

I have a good size garden 50 ft. x 50 ft. and didn’t want to have a big garden because I won’t have the time to care for it. I decided to plant fruit trees on the other side of the garden. This will leave me enough space for a few rows of peppers. I purchased the bare-root dwarf fruit trees from Stark Bro’s and they came in a long box within a week.

They were nicely packaged and the roots were wrapped with damped shredded papers.

I purchased 3 Apple trees and 1 Hosui Asian Pear tree.

I need to get a bamboo stake so it will grow upright. This side of the garden still needs a lot of cleaning.

I planted them last week and this one has leaves already.

I’m not a huge fan of April Showers since I couldn’t work in the garden as much as I like to but I think the ducks love the April Showers.