Fava Flowers

Wisteria!

It smells so sweet.

This is my wisteria's 4th year with me, and it's first bloom (I have two plants on different posts of my arbor).

I pruned the heck out of it last spring and late winter, following the advice of some you-tube videos. I'm still not sure it bloomed where they said it would, and whether my pruning was instrumental or incidental. But I don't care, because it's beautiful.

Here is an early bud, when I was still just hoping that that's actually what it was:

No Dig Potatoes

I don't have a pile of tires or potato bin yet, but this is an easy way to grow potatoes.

1. let your potatoes go to seed. (Last year I bought some early from the co-op and stored them in a paper bag in the basement. This year I just failed to keep the last of last years crop of purples potatoes from sprouting. I kept them for months, hoping they'd make it to spring and...

2. throw sprouted potatoes, or chunks with at least on sprouting eye a piece, on the ground. (You can also bury slightly if you feel like it).










3. cover with hay, or clippings.











4. keep topping off throughout the summer with clippings, to keep the plants growing higher, and creating more height for the roots and potatoes.