I'm still behind on the kitchen garden thanks to the wet weather during April, but I think maybe I'm gaining on it. The bunny rabbits mowed my row of pole beans down a few nights ago. I guess I'll replant and see if I can come up with a deterrent of some sort to prevent that from happening again. None of the cucumber seed I planted a couple weeks ago germinated. I used the seed I had on hand (packed for sale by Dec of '22 lol) so no surprise there really. I bought more seed last week and replanted yesterday. Tomatoes/peppers/eggplants are over their transplant shock and starting to look halfway decent. The new rhubarb plants are looking really good.
The spaghetti squash I planted is out of the ground and looking happy. I spent some time yesterday weeding the new asparagus bed. Got about 1/3 of it done and hope to finish that by the weekend. Sowed two hills of zucchini on Saturday. A buddy of mine saved some seed from those little sweet peppers that Aldi's sells and germinated a bunch of them this spring. He had more than he needed so he gave eight of them to me last week. I don't know if those are heirloom or hybrid but I found a spot for them in the garden. I guess they'll either make something or they won't.
I built another raised bed, set it in place, and mostly filled it with dirt yesterday. I built the first one in-place, which made it a bit more difficult than necessary. This one I built in my workshop and moved it to the garden with the tractor. I filled it about halfway up with nothing special dirt, gave it a good soaking, then brought it up to 3/4 full with semi-rotted horse poo and soaked it again. I'll finish filling it with topsoil today, soak it one more time, then figure out what to plant in it. I've got five varieties of basil that are ready to transplant so that's probably what will wind up going in.
#1 Marine Daughter helped me get stray dog Howard to the vet Saturday morning for a chip and wellness check. He didn't have a chip so I had one installed, got his shots up to date, and made an appointment for this Thursday to have him neutered. So far he seems to be quite happy with his new situation, at least until Thursday anyway. lol
Now that he's settled in a bit his personality is starting to be revealed and I've got a feeling that he's going to be quite a character. He's super curious about things and is quite the little sneak thief. So far he's pilfered a pair of gardening gloves, a sweatshirt, and a beer coozy off of Mrs. Augie's golf cart, a chair cushion from the front porch, a broom and dustpan from the garage, and probably some other stuff that we haven't yet noticed.
He even helped me roll up the tow straps that I used to move the planter bed.
