July 28, 2019 – Cross Road Gardens

Wildflowers lately

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St. John’s wort, hypericum perforatum, growing in the fruit yard on its own

White meadowsweet, spiraea Alba, blooming profusely along local roadsides

Elderberry, growing like weeds in the fruit yard *Update: correction on this! I found out this is bristly sarsparilla, aralia hispida.*

Fireweed, a few spires growing in the orchard

A few flowers

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Dahlias from Barb at the meditation center. Shasta daisies transplanted from the front garden. Poppies from seed purchased at the Good Life Center. Sunflower from ? Maybe from last year’s saved seed. Healing vibes.

Strawberry story

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The strawberries have a leaf blight. It’s their second year, they were planted in April 2018. The variety is Albion, from Fedco, an ever bearing variety.

It’s been a wet spring this year, a lot of rain, which may have encouraged the fungus.

Sam put down alfalfa pellets, thinking the extra nitrogen might help them.

Today, I weeded the whole bed. Then I decided to pick off most of the leaves including some of the dead ones on the ground, I didn’t eliminate the blight by any means, but we’ll see if the plants can recover on their own with new growth. They’ll need drip irrigation.