Mrs. Augie and I hit the Lowe's store yesterday and brought home half a dozen ten-gallon-ish outdoor planter pots. We filled those up with good soil and transplanted the lettuces that I started in half-gallon pots. We harvested some of the lettuce before we transplanted and ate it for supper last night.
Blue Lake pole bean seeds went in the dirt yesterday afternoon. My sweet corn patch was looking a bit on the yellow side so I top dressed it with a good portion of urea on Saturday. I expect it will be looking much better in a few days.
I made another ten 16" diameter protective cages from half-inch mesh hardware cloth on Saturday. I haven't bunny-proofed the perimeter fence around the new garden patch yet - these will keep the toothy varmints off my transplants in the meantime.
I'd hoped to put the cucumber fence up over the weekend but didn't manage to get it done. With all of this rain it will be a couple days before I can get back out there to do that. No big deal. Still have eight tomato plants that need to be set out and caged. 15 of the 16 seeds that I took out of a lunchbox pepper from the grocery germinated. They aren't quite big enough to set out yet but it won't be long.
I reported a couple weeks ago that only one of the American Senna seeds I sowed in starter cells had come up. There are now six of them showing. I have one red canna up from seed. Still no sign of the peach and pawpaw seeds coming up. The second planting of radishes are up. No sign of the second beet planting yet but I expect them to start showing in the next few days. The snap peas that the bunnies didn't mow down are loaded with blossoms. The ones the bunnies ate have recovered nicely and are a little over a foot tall now so it won't be long before we have fresh peas to add to our yummy salads.
Our popcorn trees (catalpa) are in full bloom now and are absolutely loaded with blossoms and bees. The wind howled off the prairie all day and knocked thousands of blossoms down but you can't tell it by looking at the trees.
