WashingtonGardener: Fenton Friday: Ribbons and extra
Final Sunday, I picked up our ribbons from the Montgomery County Truthful. We gained 10 full and had submitted 23 entries.We gained: no 1sts, one 2nd place, and a lot of different totally different third, 4th, and fifth areas. Amongst our worthwhile entries was our Lemon Basil, Potatoes, Cosmos, Coleus, and variegated petunias.The native climate has cooled off this week, nonetheless alas, we had been missed completely by the final word storm entrance that obtained proper right here by means of the realm and are drying out as quickly as further — with no rain contained in the foreseeable future. So I am as soon as extra to hand–watering every issue as quickly as further.The cool native climate has benefitted loads of the plot’s crops. This week I picked cucumbers, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, basil, and flowers. The warmth will possibly be as soon as extra subsequent week, nonetheless this break was hundreds wished and the crops (and I!) are grateful. What are you rising in your edible yard this week?About Fenton Friday: Each Friday by way of the rising season, I’ll most likely be supplying you with an change on my neighborhood yard plot on the Fenton Road Neighborhood Yard merely all by the road from my residence in zone 7 Mid-Atlantic MD/DC border. I am plot #16. It’s a 10 ft x 20 ft area and that is our thirteenth yr contained in the yard. (It opened in Would possibly 2011.) See earlier posts about our edible yard by inserting “Fenton” into the Search space above (on the prime, left on this weblog).
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Final Sunday, I picked up our ribbons from the Montgomery County Truthful. We gained 10 full and had submitted 23 entries.We gained: no 1sts, one 2nd place, and a lot of different totally different third, 4th, and fifth areas. Amongst our worthwhile entries was our Lemon Basil, Potatoes, Cosmos, Coleus, and variegated petunias.The native climate…