Monday, July 18, 2011

Things to Grow With as Long Cold Spring

This spring has been very cold, rainy and long. This has not been a good year for growing a garden. Wait! Not completely. This is a good year in Utah for cold weather plants like potatoes, peas, the cabbage family,garlic, onions and other plants that like cool weather.
My potatoes have done very well, as well as my garlic, onions and Brussels sprouts. I have three kinds of potatoes, Klondike gold, red potatoes and some purple ones my daughter gave me. The purple potatoes that my dauhter gave me had spouted and the sprouts were eight inches long. I did not think they would do well, but planted them anyway. They came up fine and are doing well.
This spring the apricot tree came out in full bloom. The next day we had six inches of snow. I have a fine picture of the apricot tree in full bloom and covered with snow. I thought that we would not have one apricot on the tree, but to my great surprise, the tree is loaded with apricots.