It was a busy weekend, so I'm kind of behind. Saturday was Bill and Laura's party. It was a lovely day for it, and lots of folks showed up. We all hung out down by the meadow.
The dogs had fun playing in the water.
We played Cornhole.
Lori was a natural!
We had a whole peanut gallery of fans.
Back at the farm, Rick and Rick plan the irrigation. You can see the sprinkler going in the background, because the plants didn't care that we were gonna have irrigation soon.
So Rick worked hard on the irrigation. He made a manifold with valves for each half of each row. This way, we have a very flexible system that we can reuse each season. We can use the same black tubing we used before, but now we can keep it to 12- 18-foot lengths rather than having giant long pieces.
On Sunday we put up a piece of reed fence. It helps support the roses and provide a little more neutral backdrop.
The cherries are ripening, and drawing lots of birdlife. This colorful fellow is a male Western Tanager.
We also laid some more mulch on Sunday. Rick and I cleared grass, Buddy shoveled mulch, and I crawled around spreading newspaper. Here, the chickens are working the newly cleared area. We got the mulch spread all the way to the playhouse.
Rick caught another gopher. He's quite the gopher hunter!
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Weather Note
The weekend was clear, but it clouded up on Sunday. Monday was rainy most of the morning, but it cleared up by afternoon. Nighttime temperatures are still cold--going down into the mid 40s, but the days are warming up to high 70s or low 80s. Forecast shows rising temperatures, notably nights in the 50s. I think it's about to get hot, so hopefully we've planted just at the right time.
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Monday, after the rain, was perfect transplanting weather, so I pulled all the plants out of the greenhouse and sorted out what could go where. We have the "problem" of too much spring stuff still producing. We don't have room for all the summer crops yet! In particular, a bunch of the peppers are gonna have to wait until the peas quit producing. Fortunately they have room in their pots, and with all the tomatoes out of the greenhouse, they might even get some sun!
Row 5 is all planted in tomatoes now, although some plants are squeezed in around the lettuce and radicchio. We're getting lots and lots of snow peas, at least a colander-ful every day. We're trying to keep them picked so they keep producing. We're also getting the very first of the garden peas. The Maestro peas seemed to do well, but not so much the Burpeanna Early. The double row of Paso peas in row 8 is like a wall of peas! These haven't quite started producing, but they should any day now. The garlic is also thriving, and there's lettuce for the world.
Catherine models her rose necklace.
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What We're Eating
Peas and Maries: Pick a ton of snow peas and dip them in Marie's Blue Cheese Dressing.
Goddess Salad: Pick a ton of lettuce and snow peas, slice a scallion or three and a carrot, and toss with Annie's Goddess Dressing.
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