persimmons

Garden update: One of our persimmon trees is so heavy with fruit that its branches, normally at a height of about 6 feet, are dragging the ground. I can't wait for the fruit to ripen so that we can harvest and cut the thing back some. This year's tomatoes didn't fair so well against the gopher that lives underneath them. I'm really surprised he didn't take our carrots out too. The herbs took longer than I expected to settle in to their new home but they're looking really nice now. Most of the flowering perennials weren't at all happy about the move and being hastily thrown into quite poor soil just as summer was breaking. We're struggling just to keep them alive. I think we're going to have to rebuild most of the soil here at the new house. It's just too much clay. Maybe this weekend.