Got much work done in the garden the past few days. Nephew Sam came over on Saturday and helped me dig potatoes and garlic, and pull weeds. Potato crop was one of the best I've had. A bit over 20 gallons from 75 foot of row. The garlic also did very well this year.
I tilled up where the garlic and spuds came out, and seeded 60 foot of sweet corn. I'm going to mat the remaining space and plant a couple hills of summer squash.
The Russian cucumbers that I planted a couple weeks ago all drowned, so I tilled up and planted more of those.
I picked about half a bushel of cucumbers and half a dozen ripe tomatoes. That first tomato of the season always tastes so good!
First planting sweet corn, peppers, basil, okra, butternut squash and green beans are all doing well. The japanese beetles got into the green beans on Saturday. On Sunday I declared war on beetles and loaded the sprayer with liquid Sevin. No more beetles in the beans.
I put out four of the Spectracide beetle traps two weeks ago. So far I've trapped 25 gallons of the dang things. They slowed down a little while it was rainy, but picked right back up as soon as the sun came out.
The onions that I dug up in Dad's back yard are making bulbs of little baby onions on top of their stems.
