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My transplants are doing well. It’s been warm here lately in Massachusetts at night, so I’ve been leaving them out. I’ve been doing some clean up and weeding out front and in the planters on the deck out back. I can’t wait for some home grown tomatoes, squash and lettuces. I need to sow some lettuce seeds this week end.
I have some seeds planted in the garden and tomatoes, okra, peppers and eggplant in containers since I need to bring them in at night due to frost and snow.
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Nice weather, when it isn’t raining. So far this week, a bit over 1/2”. Good for the garden, but the downside is that lightning killed my modem Tuesday afternoon; phone company replaced it yesterday morning.
Yesterday, I transplanted leek seedlings; today, 6 tomatoes went in: 3 Roma; 1 heirloom Heinz Super Roma; 1 Cherokee Purple; and 1 Rutgers. Tomatoes don’t normally do good here, so it’s a compromise between not having any, and wasting a lot of space on them...and STILL not having any.
Cut our first rhubarb yesterday, and the last asparagus of the season today.
Next week, the potatoes will need their first hilling. Also ready to start putting in warm season seeds...including the Great Northern beans; the ones from the grocery store sprouted, so for less than $1 I have a pound of heirloom bean seed.
It has been very wet and soggy here. The weather report tonight said that there have been 20 days of rain this month. Right now it is raining so hard it feels like you are under a waterfall! The gardening pots are doing very well. Having a most excellent crop of lettuce and parsley. Pansies going full tilt. The lavender plant has been a wonderful surprise. It is labeled for full sun but there is enough bright indirect light for it to thrive and blossom! Sowed seeds of patio tomato. They have sprouted and have four leaves. Now to see if it produces tomatoes.