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Looks like there’s going to be a bumper crop of strawberries this year, my plants are blooming like crazy. I counted 34 flowers and buds on a single plant, and more just keep coming! Good thing I perfected my pie crust technique last month. It’ll be too hot to bake when they’re actually ripening, but I can can them up in a syrup and use that to make the filling from. Mmmm, strawberry syrup......

My back garden has 3 tomatoes growing so far, but 2 of them are in the same hole :/ The last 2 I’m waiting to sprout are both Opalka paste tomatoes. I know Roma is the most popular one, but I don’t like growing what everybody grows, it leads to monoculture. Still, if they don’t show some vigor soon I’ll look for a different paste. Maybe Roma, maybe not.

Still waiting on the cucumbers and zucchini to sprout. The cucumbers are a new variety, but the zuchini is one I’ve grown before, and vigor has never been a problem!

Yesterday I put a sort-of fence as a boundary marker on my land, so hopefully the neighbor’s hired hands don’t clip the edge of my bigger garden with their tractor again. The fence is just wooden stakes and colored ribbon, but it’s visible. I’ll try and get something more solid up eventually. But, 215’ of fence in one day! If anybody sees my right arm laying around, could you mail it back to me?

I was hoping to have my potatoes planted before now, but they’re in the back garden, which means they’re in Dad range. He’s not happy unless he’s pulling stuff apart and redoing it, and he says my potato towers aren’t in a straight enough line and have to be redone. Honestly, I keep looking, and I still think the line is straight, but that’s not good enough. He keeps putting off redoing them, so I told him I’m planting them by June 1, wherever they are. We’ll see what happens.
(He does this with everything, and I mean EVERYTHING! I don’t think he’s lived in a place more than a week before trying to remodel it.)