I fertilized the lawn today. It was about a month overdue. I also sprayed Malathion on my apples and nectarines and then sprayed a small remaining amount on some flowers that had too many grasshoppers recently.

Yesterday, I sprayed the rose hedge with “bloom booster” fertilizer as a foliar feeding. Those roses are actually finally producing more flowers, but they’re still not as thick in bloom as I would like.

Yesterday, I also thinned the apples. The Granny Smiths didn’t need it much, but the Jonathans had a lot of clumps with three or four apples growing all in a group. I tried to pick ones with bug damage for the culling.

We’re still eating a lot of great raspberries (I think it’s been about three weeks now!), and the strawberries are heading into their second wave of production. It’s been two or three weeks without strawberries after that first wave.

Our peas have produced well, and they’re at the end of their lives about now.