Sunday, May 11, 2008

Another Red Currant Maturing


My wife's parents are going to our grandfather's funeral on Monday. Earlier today, we acquired their two dogs to watch for about a week.

One dog dug out one of her tomato plants last year to get to the egg about a foot down. To prevent this with our tomato plants in the backyard, we went to Green Thumb and bought Sturdy Twists. We then cut pieces of wire to string from the bottom rung to the next highest rung where there wasn't a stake on each side. This should deter any digging.

I caught our Manchester Terrier peeing on Aker's Plum. I washed it off pretty quickly. Previously, I've noticed wetness on the Evan's Italian Plum stake the day after I put it in the ground. The Manchester Terrier marks everything. Everything. We installed a birdbath for the backyard yesterday. Within 10 seconds of him noticing it, he marked it.

Lower leaves on a lot of the backyard plants have signs of burning (for instance, small holes), burning that doesn't show up on the front yard plants. It's a near certainty that this caused serious issues with our Purple Russian and Zhezha. There's nothing much to do about it except wash it off when seen.

We doubt that we'll get anything off of our Purple Russian. It's slowly getting better, but it's still worse than when we acquired it a month ago. It's so thin it can barely support itself. The backyard Zhezha is growing again and growing well, but it lost about three or four weeks recovering. Will it be too late?

I noticed a second Red Currant turning orange just to the right of the first orange tomato.


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