My tomatoes in pots on the deck have teeny tiny cherry tomatoes beginning to show. I've never had deer or rabbits on the deck--well, except for one extremely small fawn one time--so I have high hopes that if I can keep the worms away, I might actually have a crop.
Meanwhile, the black raspberries are producing a pint a day and I am eating a pint a day. That of course does not count what I eat that never gets into the container.
My cucumber seeds did not sprout, either indoors or outside. Not sure why. It could be that the dirt, recycled from some plant I bought, actually has Preen in it or something like it to keep anything from germinating. We have yet to try curbside pickup at a hardware chain, so I'm stuck recycling dirt. The native dirt is horrible.
A magenta cosmos suddenly appeared; it has to be from an attempt to grow them last year. Three red-hot pokers are blooming, which is one more than I expected. The canna roots (corms?) I had in the garage all winter have now put up five pieces. I'm spraying them, since last year the deer ate at the beautiful foliage. The echinacea are just about to pop. Strangely, the deer ate the flowers of the baptisia. Never did that before, so now I'm spraying those, too. And all the daylilies, of course. It's a fight to the finish here.
