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Allie

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It's the middle of winter here and our poinsettias are in flower. We have the ordinary one and the ramshorn poinsettia. There are also pink ones. They make a lovely show.
Our winter temps are very mild and rarely go below 10oC with an average of about 19oC high. 

The saints of July https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2024/07/july.html

Take a walk with me down memory lane: https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-end-of-era.html

Wild blackberries need a steady amount of water to produce, and they need to be picked fully ripe. Otherwise, they're small and bitter. There are thornless cultivars that produce much larger berries--three times the size--and aren't as desperate for water, either.

My wild black raspberries have gone nuts with all the rain we had in May, and they've gotten ahead of me despite picking a quart a day. I was outside this morning before 7 a.m. to avoid the heat wave and had to stop picking from sheer exhaustion. I've decided to cut back a large swath of the bushes that tend to produce smaller ones and just keep the newer group that gets more shade and thus produces larger berries. It's going to make my neighbors very happy, since the bushes tend to wildness. Ten-foot-tall primocanes.

The deer have been savaging my daylilies and I despair of seeing many blooms this year. I'd best go outside and spray them again right now. Daylilies are human edible, by the way, although I'm not a fan. My spray is edible, too, and completely safe, since it's only egg, garlic, and water.