In the back yard we have some Saskatoon bushes. Another name for them is “Juneberries,” which is perfect because they bloomed today. These bushes are supposed to produce berries within a few years, but ours took much longer and they still don’t bear well. Unfortunately, we unintentionally made them into an experiment. They have been […]
It is Memorial Day, today and there are some yellow flowers blooming in the yard. We haven’t raked the yard since fall and the grass is still asleep. So, these flowers have not had anything to disturb them. They are wildflowers that pop up here and there. I don’t know what they are called, but
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In the first few days after they arrived, we lost two more Big Reds, a Pearl White, and a Maran. In the last few days there have been no mortalities so we may be past the worst of it. In past years, we have had a much lower percentage of mortalities and few losses after