Just garden and sky

A canopy of berries

After our disappointing spring mushroom hunting experience, Bryan and I were overwhelmed by the amount of summer berries we have discovered. There is a local trail within biking distance of our house on which our friend noticed mulberries. I have been passionately hunting wild mulberries since Papa Steve cut down his mulberry tree. While picking a few mulberry bushes on the bike path I noticed raspberry bushes. Upon closer inspection I found the entire path was over grown with black raspberries. If you stopped to look up you discover that you were under a literal canopy of red and black berries. Gleefully we pick two quarts of black raspberries before we tired. It was more then enough to make a batch of jam. Later that week we saw black raspberries selling at the farmers market for five dollars a pint. A forager's savings of $20!

Yes the project is progressing, no i'm not blogging.

We have been avoiding blogging lately. Many improvements have been made. Here are just a few photographs of the garden as of this week.

(post script: these photographs were taken before we received our massive truck load of mulch)

rare sightings

The first defense against pests in a garden is observation. There is apparently great value in the ability to identify that destructive agent. Well after weeks of broken, mashed, squashed, and just plain snapped plants we were able to take these rare photos of the creature who has been destroying the garden.