Picked my first batch of radishes along with kale, lettuce, spinach, sorrel and chives. Nothing beats the first salad of the season. My bush yellow squash, bush zucchini and cucumbers are all up. Potatoes are popping up as well. All the nasturtiums, basil and marigolds I planted from seed have sprouted in the garden. Tomato seedlings have tripled in size from when I planted them. Heavily mulched the whole garden today with grass clippings and ground leaves just in case the weather gets a bit chilly overnight the next few days. Peas have hit the fence and started their climb.
I fenced in my gooseberry plants so I can keep the birds out this year. The deer netting around the entire back yard seems to be keeping out all the local deer and I just might be able to have a bumper crop of raspberries.
Sprinkled another batch of blood meal around the outer edge of the garden which seems to be keeping Hip and Hop the baby bunnies to the lawn only.
I'm so happy with the amount of light that now gets on the garden since we took down some trees. My veggie garden now gets almost 6 hours of sun light.
Still have beans to plant but to exhausted from just maintaining the yard, compost, worm farm, weeding after working an 8 hour shift in my school kitchen that has been hotter than Heck these last few days.
Started laying out the chicken coop and run, putting in the new trellis supports for the concord grapes and post hole digging for the new permanent posts for the deer netting on the north side of the house. Still have two dogwood trees to take down so we can plant out new Nectarine tree.
