Wednesday Yardening
Jun. 7th, 2017 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today started out quite warm, but cooled rapidly.
I went out to water plants. It's been dry for so long, things are wilting. Also the mulberries and black raspberries are ripening, but not tasty. :/ I got a few good berries off one tree; everything else has been either sour, or dried up. I suspect the lack of rain during the ripening period is to blame.
Today's big news was the mourning doves fledging. \o/
I went out to water plants. It's been dry for so long, things are wilting. Also the mulberries and black raspberries are ripening, but not tasty. :/ I got a few good berries off one tree; everything else has been either sour, or dried up. I suspect the lack of rain during the ripening period is to blame.
Today's big news was the mourning doves fledging. \o/
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Date: 2017-06-08 02:01 pm (UTC)Yay, doves!
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Date: 2017-06-08 06:02 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2017-06-08 06:11 pm (UTC)It goes like this:
Way too much water -- berries rot on the vine
Too much water -- berries are soggy, fragile, and mold easily
Just right -- a great picking season
Slightly too little water -- berries are smaller and more intense, some sweet and others sour, often a bit shriveled
Too little water -- many berries are small, harder, and more bitter or sour
Way too little water -- berries are hard and dry
I'm seeing plenty of mulberries, not nearly as many black raspberries. Most of them taste bad. Some are shriveled, some are rocks.
>> I don't want to speculate too much, but you don't think it could be disease too, could you?<<
There are diseases, but I don't know of any that hit both mulberries and black raspberries.