{"id":300,"date":"2010-04-29T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T19:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daringdrake.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2010-05-02T21:47:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T01:47:04","slug":"spring-update-and-plant-sale-at-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/spring-update-and-plant-sale-at-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring update and plant sale at the Library."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the cold couple of nights we just had in the Finger Lakes, the trees and bushes still look good.\u00a0 The plums are either in petal fall or will be this weekend.\u00a0 The Hungarian cherries are in full bloom as are the most of the pears.\u00a0 The apples are in king bloom, except for a few really early varieties that are almost in full bloom ( Egremont Russet, St. Edmund&#8217;s Russet and Ashmead&#8217;s Kernel).\u00a0 Of course the cider apples are just starting to wake up.\u00a0 The currants are at the end of their bloom and the gooseberries are in full bloom.\u00a0 It looks like we could have a huge crop of Ribes!\u00a0 We planted 50 peach trees today, which will be trained in the &#8220;perpendicular V&#8221; method (what a plant nerd)\u00a0allowing the peaches to be planted 54 inches between trees.<\/p>\n<p>The Edith B. Ford Memorial Library in Ovid will be having a plant sale on Saturday May 1st from 10am to 2pm.\u00a0 There will be a barbecue by 4h, plants from local farms, divided perennials from local gardeners, fruit trees from Daring Drake, music by Kevin Moss (Cornell Plantation&#8217;s great story teller), children&#8217;s plant activities, bake sale and a trunk display of quilts by Mary Diamond.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I forgot half of the stuff.\u00a0 All proceeds go to funding the library&#8217;s programs and book purchases.\u00a0 Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_302\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302 \" title=\"100_3817\" src=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3817-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pear bloom (cv. Moonglow)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3817-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3817-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pear bloom (cv. Moonglow)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_301\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-301\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301 \" title=\"100_3811\" src=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3811-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Red fleshed apple bloom (cv. Firecracker)\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Fleshed Apple flowers (cv. Firecracker)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_303\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303\" title=\"100_3815\" src=\"https:\/\/daringdrake.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/100_3815-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Apple bloom (cv. Egremont Russet)\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple bloom (cv. 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