As you may have noticed, I use soaker hoses for watering. This involves a lot of picking them up and moving them around, as I haven't added to my stock. However, 100 feet of hose still goes a long way. My preference is to turn them on at bedtime and leave them on till morning. We just completed 3 days of watering, the first watering we've done this year, and thoroughly soaked the garden. It should keep things for awhile. Of course, I immediately noticed the tomato plants looked perkier and the peas were suddenly producing double-time.


The sunflowers in the garden aren't blooming quite yet, but the ones sown by the birds over on the east side of the house are starting. These sunflowers from the birdfeeder keep trying to take over. I think the feeder's going to find a new home, as I'm tired of them springing up in my lily patch.

This is also where I have my flower garden from which I get bouquets for the deliveries each week.  I'm going to have to expand my perennial plantings for next year in order to keep doing that.

And last but not least, my favourite apple tree of the bunch. It's a Norkent from Patmore's Nursery in Brandon. I have two of them, but this one has the healthiest form and is actually carrying a fair bit of fruit right now. Off in the corner, you can see our humble little homestead down at the other end of the yard.