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Message: [QUOTE="ClifSpliffy, post: 3604363, member: 9260"] (shoreline east) starting to get cukes and cherry tomatoes. raspberries (epic expansion this year) look to be a week or so away (watch out for those rascally bears! there seem to be more lately. rabbits too), and everything perked up with the recent rain, but the ground has a funny, dry look to it. on the other hand, certain flowering things, starting with the daffodils, then azalea, rhodys, dogwoods, and now tigerlillys, have unusually long runs of beauty. the shagbark hickory chestnuts started to emerge in late june this year, which is [I]not[/I] what the book says is supposed to happen. 'Following the blossoming of creamy white flowers in early summer and their pollination by wind and insects, chestnut burrs emerge in late summer.' i wonder if that is a result of the 'no winter' thing. as usual tho, the 'free range' brown turkey figs (planted in the ground years ago, no maintenance, nutrition, protection, etc) got moving around mid june, tho the typical 20-30 emerging shoots are down to about a dozen or so. mebbe they'll have some fruit this year. mebbe not. on a tip, we're messing around with knox gelatin as a fertilizer for some veggies this season. makes sense to try. [/QUOTE]