Spent the afternoon pruning my ~60yr-old blueberry bushes. Cut out the old/dead wood to make room for the newer growth. Pruning the 40 ft (10meter) row of bushes turned into a large pile of brush, turned into ½ cart of chips, turned into some mulch around some of the apple trees. Very satisfying. 😀 #gardening #Allotment #NewEngland #zone6b

I'm still here, just not much to report these days. The temperature went down to 32°F (0°C) this morning & stayed there for 3 hours. The few flowers I have left seemed to survive ok so they get to go on as long as they want. ALSO, the raspberries incredibly are still fruiting & flowering & the bees are still visiting. Pictures show milkweed, Calibrachoa, Cleome, and raspberries, all still chugging along. Got to go prune the blueberries. #gardening #Allotment #NewEngland #BloomScrolling

Came home with 200 pounds (91kg) of pelletized lime and spent the morning applying it on the 4800ft² (446 meter²) garden bed. This comes out to be roughly 40 pounds per 1000ft² or about 20 kilos per 100 meter². (don't judge me if the math is off). Photos show the labeling on the bags and % contents. Also a shot of what a handful of the stuff looks like. I know it says "Lawn Lime" but I wouldn't waste it on grass.😀 @npub1nw7c...g0ek @npub1yrap...ayat #gardening #Allotment #NewEngland #zone6b

Did some pH checking around the garden this morning as I am preparing to apply some lime before winter sets in. Most of the growing areas currently reading about pH 6.0. Even the soil in the carrot pot was the same. The water in the rain barrel read pH 5.5. I'm off to get some pelletized lime. 😀 @npub1nw7c...g0ek @npub1yrap...ayat #gardening #Allotment #NewEngland #zone6b

Update on my "Pot-O-Carrots" Variety is "MoonRaker", planted in April. Pretty much left alone except for watering all season. Not prize winning specimens, but are MUCH better that what I get from my garden soil. Average about 4" in length & we harvest what we need, meal by meal. Should end up with well over 150 carrots by the end, but I've not counted them this year. Pot was in full sun all summer and is now in the greenhouse.😀 #gardening #Allotment #NewEngland #zone6b @npub1nw7c...g0ek