What to do with the permanent installations. With Some Photos!!!!

It looks like we are going to have apples this year. Last year we did not have one apple on any of the trees. Due to the very cold winter and the number of blooms on the trees, I feel safe saying we will have tons of apples. The question will be the size of the apples, because in the past we have had mixed results. I plan on doing 2 major things with the apples this year. One is to make apple butter, the other is to attempt making vinegar. This will be a fun experiment. Next will be the mulberries. We typically have tons of these as well, but no one ever bothers harvesting them because I am gone when they come out. I want to make jelly (mulberry jelly is my absolute favorite) and maybe even try to make wine with them. Tom has a great number of blooms on his pear trees, and if he gets lots of pears I may have to get a few buckets full as they fall and can them. We have peach trees as well, but usually we only end up with tiny, sour peaches. Maybe if they are good I will do preserves.

Violets

Pumpkin Patch

Main Garden, about 30'x100'

Garlic patch

Secondary Garden (10'x30') planted with red onions, potatoes, and sweet peas

Sweet Peas sprouting

The Potting Shed

Apple Blossom

Strawberries

Aloe Sprouts

It is cold again

It was a nice 80 degrees outside a few days ago, now it is down in the 50's again. I took advantage of this warm time to plant some onions sets. In my second garden, I planted red onions and noticed my sweet peas are starting to break though the ground. I may get some peas before I till them to plant a row of corn. My garlic is about 8 inches high already and my chives are already blooming. I have several more onion sets to plant but need to wait until it dries out a bit and gets a bit warmer, maybe this weekend. I will over the bed in newspaper and cover that in mulch of some manner so I don't have to bother weeding my onions over the growing season. It will still be at least 6 weeks until I plant the bulk of the garden, but for now things are looking good. The dirt is turned and tilled, and will be re-tilled every week until planting to help fend off weeds. The apple trees are blooming. Last year they did not bloom, thus we had not one apple. I am hoping if we get alot of apples this year I will try to make vinegar. My neibors pear trees are in full bloom too and I can't wait to swipe some of those.