The continuing saga of my growing hazelnut … July 30th
Category: Gardening
Hazelnut Pollen
A few years after we planted our hazelnuts, I was eagerly awaiting the time when they would have pollen-y bits. Except I couldn’t find anything online about what I was looking for. We did, finally, see the developed bits over the winter … but, this year, I can actually see them starting to develop in late July.
Mulch!
We got a whole truckload of mulch from a local arborist — a lot of pine, so it smells really good.
Garden Fence
And today we added the electric fence around the garlic — it’s almost time to harvest the garlic and get our broccoli and cabbages into the bed
Corn Fencing
We put an electric fence up around our corn on the farm — wanted to document what we’ve got
Corn Spacing
A note so we can (hopefully) avoid over-seeding corn in the future — we want to have a foot between the plants in each row and 30″ between rows. Scott’s seen between 20″ and 30″ row spacing — so we can go denser than this if we want to increase the number of plants.
Proto Hazelnuts
Hazelnut forming — June 30
Proto-Hazelnuts (A few days later)
The proto-hazelnuts are starting to look more like hazelnuts!
Anya noticed that there is a little disc forming if you look from the bottom.
Proto-Hazelnuts
We have observable little proto-hazelnuts forming!
Garlic Scapes
I harvested two large shopping bags stuffed with garlic scapes today. I’ll blanch and freeze a bunch; but, this year, I am going to try pickling some garlic scapes too.
