Jill's Garden

[Butch Bridges]

With all the good rain on Tuesday morning May 6th, Jill's garden has really be growing. I snapped some pictures this week.........

This is 3 rows of corn and that's sunflowers growing along the fence.
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The larger plants are sunflowers, and the smaller ones, peppers.
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And this is purple cabbage on the left and broccoli on the right.
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And this is my pride and joy. Its a Little Giant Blueberry. It will be about 2 years before it starts producing, so I hope it makes it until then. This one plant is suppose to produce 20 bowl fulls of blueberries a week.
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Jill has a number of other plants growing, so I'll get some pics of them next week. The crape myrtles growing near the front by the road, they are really greening.
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And then there's fruit trees, I just snapped pictures of two. The first one is an Alberta Peach (we have two more other kinds of peach trees).
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And this is a Bartlett Pear tree, its really growing tall with the rain.
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Oh, and I can't forget about the two apricot trees Chuck Carter gave us a month ago. I imagine it will be several years before we see apricots, but I sure love apricot moon pies, can hardly wait!
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Jill has several rose bushes growing around the ponderosa. She is always clipping one and bringing in the house to put in a vase. I like the climbing rose bush we bought last week, its already blooming.
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