Gardening

L brought more mulch over to the main south garden and opened the bags of soil. I planted slicing cucumbers, summer squash, zucchini, butternut squash, and small blue hubbard. Still to come is bush delicata (seed).

Also planted 28 yellow onion sets from a 6-pack of pots. I have another 6-pack to go.

Finished a second row of Vt. Cranberry beans, all from thinning the first row (which still needs a bit more thinning).

L used the big tiller (pulled by a tractor) to deal with the further grain plot, the little south garden (at the west end) and some bits of the lower garden (other side of house, near barn). Corn and hopefully buckwheat and maybe oats to come.

All 4 Amish Paste tomato plants are in pots now -- 1 to 1+ gallon ones, so they're all set.

Weeding here and there happened.

The peas are pretty happy... I now have a few bean plants by them as well -- a few very young seedlings I'm not sure will make it, but if they do they'll give the peas some shade at their bases, without interfering with climbing the fence, as they are bush beans.

This year I'm using a fish/kelp emulsion in the water to give new plants a nutritive boost. They do this at Goldthread and their plants are gorgeous and healthy, so I figured why not give it a try? Organic stuff, I forget the name at the moment.

MIL has asked for wax beans, so we'll need to get seed for that.

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I put all the slicing cucumber plants in one hill, which might be too many (5). But it got them out of their little pots at least. Maybe someone will want 1 or 2 of them, in which case I'll pot them up for giveaway.

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I have one volunteer lettuce from last year... usually there are more, but the rain probably played havoc with the flowers. Still, it's a very healthy one!

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Picked up stuff I'd left at Goldthread's farm; I think folks were way down at the bottom of the field...

So, quite a few things done today, before the rain.