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garden

  • Most (all?) in-garden transplanting has been completed
  • Corn has germinated nicely, both 2020 seed and last year's crop
  • Potatoes are looking strong for the most part, with a few gaps. Big variation in plant size.
  • Transplanted tomatoes have been stalled, but alive
  • Transplanted peppers look generally sad
  • Eggplant seeing some pest damage
  • Pumpkin seedlings mostly all killed by striped cucumber beetles, a few other squashes are doing better
  • Turkish Rocket has been flowering for a while (2 weeks?)
  • Grapes are growing fast, many leaves
  • Pea pods have formed
  • Scarlet Runner beans have germinated
  • Some pests went to town on three of the Broccoli plants
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Garden Update

Direct Seeded

  • Zucchini (in south west corner, along fence)
  • Black Sunflower (along eastern fence, near base of western grape plant)
  • Cabbage (in shady northwest bed)

Transplanted

  • Eggplant
  • Chile peppers (both types)

Weather

  • Mild and breezy, 70F

Notes

  • Lot of weeding
  • Added another string to pea trellis
  • Several potato plants sprouted from last year unharvested
  • Put down tarp for additional future bed
  • The row-covered bed is now pretty much full

Observations

Syrphid flies on yellow Turkish Rocket flowers Small toad near sunflower transplant Pumpkins and winter squash have germinated

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