We know summer hasn’t really arrived — there’s still a good chance of frost around the corner. So while the apple trees are blooming like mad, I’m continuing to plant crops like late-season pumpkins, squash, pole beans, and melons inside. Yesterday, I sprayed our apricot and plum trees with Surround, a kaolin clay compound which confuses and repels our nemesis, the plum curculio. This insect bites a tiny piece of immature fruit, lays eggs in it and goes away. Then the fruit drops off the tree.
The Surround makes the tree leaves and tiny fruitlets look white, coated with white clay. And we hope it will work as the trees are loaded with fruit this year.
On our driveway there’s a big wild clematis vine and it blooms very early, even before the trees are leafed out. It’s so pretty and we look forward to it each year. When we see it, we know spring is here for sure. It started blooming two weeks ago and is still in full bloom!
— Jackie
Wild Clematis? I have never run across it. What a welcome sight it must be each spring. Lucky you!
Oh it’s looking so good Miss Jackie. I am missing the spring blooms already. My are is way past that and the heat is already bearing down. But that means fruit! My pears are loaded this year. Can’t wait!
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