With our very wet rainy spring our planting season got delayed, but things are growing and the harvest season is catching up fast! Even though it is late, get your veggies in, so you can have some kind of late harvest and enjoy Nature’s bounty and fresh summer’s taste! there is still time to plant every warm season crop. Tomatoes will be long in coming, but they are going to be anyway due to the rainy spring weather. Other things like blueberries are coming in now, harvest them fast to outwit birds if they discover your crop! Honeyberries are long gone, but growt the plants well from now on to get a big crop for next year!
Plumcots, early plums, early peaches, and apricots are ripening now so harvest them when fully ripe and enjoy the first sweet tastes of Nature! Plumcots are a taste treat, they are the first crosses of plums and apricots. The second crosses are called pluots (3/4 plum, apricot) and apriums(3/4 apricot, plum) and they ripen a little later. Early apricots are coming in now or soon. Also the first peaches are ready now or soon will be, Amazing how they did not fall behind with all that rainy weather in spring! Now the heatwave will really sweeten them up!
Alpine strawberries are in full harvest mode now. You will be able to smell the ripe fruits before you see them! /their taste is also concentrated, so even though smaller than storebought berries, their flavor is very INTENSE and a small amount fully satifies the most discerning gourmet.
I do have those brand new PINK blueberries to try as well. They have made excellent growth and are looking very nice, should bloom and fruit next year!
Pink Lemonade is the cv. name. and they are showier plants as well, They have bright reddish stems in winter (as opposed to green) and are ornamental in flower(spring), fruit (summer), and fall (leaves color up nicely with autumnal tints)
easy care in containers, you simply plant in acid soil mix and you satisfy those cultural needs as well! And you can move the plants around since they are portable in containers!