My blackberries are blooming.

[dalthauser]

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[madamealexis.livejournal.com]

So far I got some strawberries and tomatoes close to turning red. The bell peppers are just now starting to bloom.

What else have you got growing?

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

I've got onions, shallots, and garlic, and parsley on the back row of the vegetable patch. There's a few potato plants too, but they are mostly an experiment.

There's lettuce and spinach in row two - still going very strong. In the next row there's bok choy and swiss chard - amazing that stuff; like the energizer bunny (unless it frosts - no tolerance).

Figs haven't done anything yet - birds eat most of them anyway, so I just count that tree as my giving back to nature.

I have tomatoes and peppers in the ground, but they are babies.

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

It will be late May or June before that happens. Very nice!

[soyosauce.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[sahlah.livejournal.com]

Those things are weeds around here! I never see them so robust and nice! Do you get big berries? Do you do anything with the old canes at the end of the season? I'll look around for pictures, but folks out here make fences out of them and really cool decorative balls!

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

This is their first real year of production. I put them in the winter before last. The first year they were just babies.

My grandfather had blackberries growing wild behind his house. I remember picking them. He also had a coop of chickens and a big veggie garden. I think all this stuff is in my blood because I'm drawn to it all. haha

[sahlah.livejournal.com]

I first saw these at Earth Sanctuary. I found an article that shows blackberry balls - you'd have to have good gloves to make these!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2003/0608/living.html

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

Yeah no kidding - those thorns smart, and they are so tiny that when they get under your skin it's not easy to get them out again. I considered thornless blackberries, but they say they don't grow so well in our climate.

[k2rider78.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful, it's to soon to plant anything here but my tree in the backyard has buds and the crocuses are blooming.