good luck and keep all of us here posted 
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I will. if they grow up get excited and tag you in again here haha
looking forward to it! Jujus being so productive and long-lived are such a joy to have
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also a note to @Osteen that pawpaw is waking. @Bradybb I’ve got a Susquehanna and a Wabash from those seeds waking up and a Shenandoah that’s still asleep and is the smallest.
@JerrytheDragon three took to root, one other grafted and I’m waiting to see. I still owe you!
now I’m hunting for jujube and persimmon. seeds, starts, seedlings. and possibly more pawpaw seed or babies. I still have a few gaps to fill.
2 years in, waiting until next year.
@swincher every flower dropped, but I expected as much.
a tale of two coffee plants. no idea why the one is struggling. may need a bigger pot by now, it’s a few years old.
planted mame sapote and soursop seeds, both are popping up well.
@NuttingBumpus a graft of that lamb abbey that’s awakening! only one other took, my main grafting tree died in last year’s heat wave, taking most of the scion with it- but this and one other are still pushing!
@ampersand look! the rest are doing well too in a planter along a full sun fence.
also, babies for breakfast
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Good to see about Lamb Abbey apple. Mine survived an accident with a lawn mower (something you appear not to need doing) & a third of the tree bloomed in the last four weeks. I must thin it a bit to promote more growth, but hope to keep a dozen fruit on it this year.
You have the most amazing list of strange names growing. I am old school by comparison.
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A few of the avocados in those last photos are showing slight root stress (mild chlorosis is often first sign I see), I would suggest moving them to a larger pot soon. Usually it just means the soil in the pot is getting too compacted and not draining well, but I also see that on outdoor potted trees in winter regardless of the potting mix situation. I’ve never seen it for in-ground trees, though.
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I’ve got pots ready. just waiting on the next few really cool nights to pass.
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I always want the weird stuff I guess!
If you can make 'em work…life is too short to wear boring clothes or eat boring food.
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I’m so glad that they rooted for you. My coffee plant did the same thing but i never knew why. It didn’t make it. Hopefully yours pulls through.
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I’m reading up on them as much as possible to try to figure it out.
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here we go with the photo dump
the back left garden is coming along.
the cleanup is coming along out back too. just a little more to do.
experiments that are apparently succeeding
tropicals and sub that are from seed or starting up
will have to remind myself to get more photos later
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the exotics/subtropical stuff in trying to grow from seed. some is elbowing out, some have roots, some are shedding the seed!
passion fruit up front here.
set up a new “bird zone” so I can see them better. there is a red finch couple and a song sparrow flock that come, and chickadees, and a few other guys. I don’t know a lot about birds.
did a whole lot of cleanup in this area, nearly done.
it’s funny how just a week makes a big difference this time of year. I always feel it’s getting late, I feel time pressing me, that nothing is on time and I won’t get any thing to eat from the trees and veggies. like it’s already last frost.
it’s only June. I need to stop fretting but I guess it’s just how my brain works.
repotted and fertilized this avocado from @swincher
orach going to seed. I’ll let it. it grew back on its own this year in quantity, I can live with that repeating itself
got a good amount of radishes, some winecap, and a handful of scapes today. plus a lot of lettuce. guess I’m doing steaks and scapes for Father’s Day. I miss my dad. my partner, he’s good, my stepson is cool, but really. I miss my dad today. I would be video chat with him right now showing him all this stuff. he knew about birds too.
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pruned yesterday; the plum tree needs the big chop on that fork and at the top. only pruned for height and cut back new growth to the 3 green leaves.
scapes coming on all the 2nd year and clove planted garlic.
apples coloring up. sunflowers near 5 feet tall ish- biggest ones just at my head.
the day lilies in the devil strip are flowering,3 of them. the rest are leaves. pulled all the daffodils and tulips and hyacinth I could find, replaced with the walking onion tops, and going to put the bulbs out front for next year. the side strip bulbs replanted in August last year during a heat wave all survived, so I think these will be ok.
aphids are out of control this year it’s terrible. have been hosing off the plum trees every day, today I finally sprayed the dill and part of the Italian plum tree because I just can’t stand it anymore. sorry, other bugs- I just can’t do it. aphids are my nightmare insect, I’m so disgusted by them.
thinking I’ll plant in all the garlic and walking onion under the trees and berries all along the fence line of the garden throughout this year, until it’s all growing along there. I’ll have to keep hunting up the flower bulbs every year and replacing them until the patches are going strong on their own.
my Chicago hardy hasn’t really grown yet after getting a little sun shock, lost a lot of leaves and is just now starting a tiny bit of tip growth. ugh. planning to put it in the ground this fall by the back corner fence, where the roots will be protected and it’ll get all the heat from the shed HVAC, and all the sun full day next year.
bromeliad very unhappy. brugmansia flowered once and is putting on new flowers now.
scapes, orach, cilantro, and the last of the French long radish today to eat. plus a lot of green onion and walking onion pulled.
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collecting weather/climate data
my last frosts are said to be further apart here than in reality; we often get a killing frost in the beginning of May, local traditional wisdom is to plant after the 15, on up to June 1. October seems correct, though twice now we have had a late September frost which damaged even older trees.
I often say we have a short season, but it’s because of sunlight. we’re north enough that we don’t get as much sun shine out of the sunshine. long ripening things don’t ripen in time here.
it’s so dry.
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first 100F day.
photos to remind myself next year.
sadly I’m giving up on: persimmon, jujube and beach plum. 4 persimmons, one still alive. 8 !?!? jujube planted and one is barely making leaves this year. I’ve planted 4 each year and none survived to leaf out at all but this one.
I just can’t get them to establish. same with persimmon; I’ve got one that’s hanging in there, not putting on growth. the others never leafed out. I’ve had this issue with these and with one pear tree so far. I don’t know if I’m not watering enough, if there’s competing roots, what it is- other trees planted the same areas and same care have all done great. so I dunno.
here’s photos of the rest
keep forgetting to get front and side photos of the place. these are all the back or fenced eastern side.
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100F+ for like a week, up and down 90s-100s from now, for the duration it looks like.
a few started fig props and seedlings. also I put in wild strawberry among the domestic ones, which are not producing AGAIN this year, so hoping the little wild ones just take over the area and go do their thing.
gooseberry patch up by the porch. one was like to make good berries this year then got severely attacked by aphids until it was near dead. I think I might dormant spray it this winter. needs weeding
damn sad okra. ever year it takes too long to be hot enough then it’s too hot for it. or dry. still figuring it out. this seeds came from sandhill and are doing the best of a bad bunch of varieties I’m trying.
kind of a lush little area, mulberry, black caps, and sumac in a patch. all it needs is wild onion underneath and I’ll have recreated a spot from my childhood in this little piece. the pawpaw’s patch is to the left of this closer to the house in the rain runoff from the roof- there’s forsythia by those but it struggles. and the lilac in between.
my experiment tobacco got extremely yellow for a bit but seems to be coming back fine- I fertilized a little extra, watered it an extra bit. the big fabric “bed” might be better suited for peppers or eggplant I think.
sugarcane, sunflowers, and orach/dill are all taller than me.
peppers, plums, garlic scapes just about ready to pick to replant- apples.
this guy was just sticks, he got sun burned early on this year but is now recovering real well
melon patch needs weeded but it’s so hot out. can’t stand it. might let it go
the tomato alley- starring a single triamble pumpkin that’s decided to reach for the sky. guess it’ll need bras.
walla walla onions; planted in January, lodging at pencil sized. awful. a failure. will try again next year. and I’ll leave a bunch in just in case they get big over winter? onions are mysterious to me. I can usually only grow the walking onions and a few of the red Italian long onions I don’t even have wild or bunching onion here.
there was some onion and garlic in here, got a few tomatoes in pots and might put them in there.
a few full view shots of most of the back garden. pulled everything out of the greenhouse to level the floor;
it’s getting there. spots for fig, olive and maybe another thing in ground. every corner is open to the ground.
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almost forgot, the bird zone. gotta move a few a little further out as they’re getting pooped on. avocados and figs live here so I remember to water daily when I fill the bird’s water.
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was gone 7 days to a wedding. left stepson in charge and anticipated some loss.
this guy did something to my garden, it’s better than how I do. he doesn’t even find it interesting or want to be in it and somehow he made it into a jungle full of food. what the hell, kid. it’s great
tried to harvest a little and only got through a third of it before I got tired out. only loss was a tree that was dying before I left. stuff I thought was doing bad from the heat and pest pressure? he brought stuff back to life.
also the dog now follows him around instead of following me.
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finally got side/front photos.
big sister is still not touching the trimmed house corner
the ditch lilies all died in the heat. I’ll be trying mint next. gotta get SOMETHING in that devil strip. a few sunflowers popped there, others died.
planted a strip of potatoes along the driveway, some are doing ok. planted them just to have some ground cover, but I’m curious if they’ll produce too.
the peach trees are fine. all jujubes dead. one pear tree dead. every sweet crab apple flourishing and mulberry and currants too.
the prairie sage has spread even more. hoping that side of the yard gets taken over by it, love the stuff.
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