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Great picture - so pretty! I really love having/watching the birds. We are loaded with bluebirds this year - several nests successfully fledged last year. Dad put up a few new boxes this spring around the edges of our fields & a couple do currently have nests in them.

Wind gusting so hard yesterday I did not plant tomatoes. I had a ride to the store this morning (can get my leg/brace in the truck & drive myself, but the rod in the back of the brace kills me the whole time I’m driving - easier to be a passenger) & I badly needed to go - just got home & no sooner in the door than it’s raining at a pretty good clip - bummer! If I can get out between showers or if it’s just a drizzle, I’ll still try to plant today.

My brother who lives 2 hours away sent me a message this morning, whining (justifiably) about how terrible his garden looks - he has a pretty good green thumb. They have been colder & more frequently overcast than we’ve been - usually we are colder. Anyway, it appears people are coming to terms with a colder & later spring this year - like Melissa (I like her blog & videos).

What Coldest May in 50’s Years Means for Food Production, Garden Set Backs & Going With the Flow!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t76ALFkl4-c

Thanks for the link. I'll check her out. I AM always happy that I can find my way to the grocery store when I need to, LOL!

Last week I couldn't keep the tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse because it was falling below 50 degrees at night.

Today? And yesterday? 102 degrees in there! I've watered twice so far, and will again this evening. They ARE loving it, however. I have had a few losses of some flowers I re-potted, but I can get zinnia anywhere these days. ;)

I've also been battling wasps out there. They just LOVE to build in the eves of my greenhouse. NOPE!

And, OF COURSE, our skid steer is on the fritz. Beau just bought a $700 pump of some kind for it. It is currently in the neighbor's field where he was doing some mowing for him. Until THAT gets fixed, I can't get The Big Garden in, and my potatoes REALLY need to go in, so may have to sacrifice a raised bed or two for them this season.

It just goes to show ya:

I have much that grows on its own. 5 black cherry saplings grew in the plant bed bordering my neighbors yard. Suddenly, they’re 8 feet tall. Birds must have dropped the seeds. I think they don’t mind being pruned, so I can keep them smallish.

4 young dogwoods flowered for the first time this month. Along the road in the woods, across from me. I have one that appeared. Maybe will flower next year. I just have to water them during droughts.

Grew on their own: young trees ... Ash, hickory, catalpa, pussy willow, oak, beech, elm. They grow where they choose to grow.