SHAMY Garden Status - 2014-05-25

Here's the latest state of our SHAMY Garden as of May 25th...

This week I mulched all my fruit trees so that's new to the homestead. ;-)

The "Lappins" Cherry Tree - the yellow leaves browned and died while some new green leaves have appeared.

The "Stella" Cherry Tree - newly mulched

The "Stark Gold" Cherry Tree - coming to life with a lot more leaves!

The "Priscilla" Apple Tree

The "Empire" Apple Tree

The "Honey Crisp" Apple Tree

The "Olympic Giant" Asian Pear Tree - branches starting to develop.

The "Honeysweet" Pear Tree

The #1 "Heritage" Red Raspberry Bush

The #2 "Heritage" Red Raspberry Bush... I'm not sure why this one's leaves are dying...

The #3 "Heritage" Red Raspberry Bush

The #4 "Heritage" Red Raspberry Bush... also with a new baby shoot.

Garden Bed #1 - Tomato, Onion & Carrot... Spinach has been harvested allowing space for the tomatoes.

Garden Bed #1 - Tomato, Onion and Carrot Sprouts

Garden Bed #2 - Lettuce

Garden Bed #2 - Lettuce Sprouts

Garden Bed #3 - Broccoli

Garden Bed #3 - Broccoli Sprouts

Garden Bed #4 - Tomato, Onion, Carrot... Spinach has been harvested.

Garden Bed #4 - Tomato, Onion and Carrot Sprouts

Garden Bed #5 - Potatoes

Garden Bed #5 - Potato Sprouts

Garden Bed #6 - Corn & Beans

Garden Bed #6 - Corn and Bean Sprouts

Garden Bed #7 - Corn & Beans... newly planted.

Blueberry Container #1 - Sweetheart

Blueberry Container #2 - Blueray

Blueberry Container #3 - Chandler

Blueberry Container #4 - Sweetheart... leaves turning brown again.

Blueberry Container #5 - Blueray

Blueberry Container #6 - Chandler... leaves turning brown again... have to find out why.

The "Mars" Grapevine #1

The "Mars" Grapevine #2

The "Mars" Grapevine #3

Black Raspberry Bush #1... still no sign of life.

Black Raspberry Bush #2

Black Raspberry Bush #3... leaves are dying.

Black Raspberry Bush #4... still no sign of life.

The Asparagus Bed

The Strawberry Bed

The "Pope John Paul II" Rose Bush... a large rose bud forming to the top right.

The "Wild Blue Yonder" Rose Bush

The "Mister Lincoln" Rose Bush

The "Margaret Merrill" Rose Bush

The "Sweet Afton" Rose Bush

The "Wenlock" Rose Bush

Hail storm aftermath - 2014-05-22

Last night we had a squall of thunderstorms go through Indianapolis.  Besides some flash flooding of storm drains in places, one of these waves brought with it hail.  Though frost is a vegetable gardener's worst enemy, at least you can take measures to protect your crops like row covers or Caterpillar High Tunnels.  Hail is hail.  It comes without much warning and it pummels your crops into oblivion.  Inspecting the soil beds this morning, I found that most of our greens are bruised and battered from the hail.  Last night I had to stand up the young tomato plants.  They were to get trellised this weekend and almost every single one was knocked to the ground.  Anyway, we'll see how the crops recover, if at all.

The spinach.  At maturity... probably ruined.

The butter leaf lettuce... 8 days from maturity... not looking good.

The romaine lettuce... 13 days from maturity... may have a chance at recovery.

The broccoli... 22 days from maturity... they probably have the best chance of recovery.

It's not all doom and gloom though... we have our first two rose buds!