Shasta and our big Tomcat, Boyd, are getting along famously. Eva Kitty doesn’t trust anyone - not even ME sometimes. ;)
Garden Report:
ALL of the tomatoes are in with the exception of six more that I’m planting when my additional square cages arrive. I LOVE those square cages - they’re sturdy and can be folded down for storage in the Milk House...which no longer stores milk. ;)
The tomato varieties ‘left behind’ are the ‘fancy, gourmet’ varieties that are just for fresh eating, not for drying or making Salsa or V-8 Juice, Tomato Soup and Bloody Mary Mix. ;) I should have the additional cages by the weekend.
In the, ‘Not All Love Notes are Written’ Department, Beau brought me 5 fresh bales of straw. I’ve used 2 so far, mulching my garden beds - heavily. I’m a total Ruth Stout advocate - look her up!
Tonight Beau tilled four rows for me in the BIG garden so I can get the Sweet Corn planted, tomorrow. (Ambrosia and Kandy Korn.) I planted Gladiolus corms today - mixed colors - about 75 of them. They are Beau’s favorite flower. Watered them in and also mulched with said straw.
Taters are up in the four rows that I planted a few weeks ago. ‘Leftovers’ from what we stored all winter, Red Norland, Kennebeck and German Butterball. Looking good, but we need some rain; I have no way to get water to them, but they’re pretty resilient.
Tomorrow is also ‘Bean-0-Rama.’ Getting the pole and bush beans in the ground. Pole: ‘Seychelles’ and ‘Scarlet Runner Bean’ for the Hummingbirds on a separate structure. Bush beans: ‘Corumba’ ‘Red Swan’ ‘Gold Rush’ and ‘Dragon Tongue.’ The pole beans will produce more than enough ‘green’ beans for us; I like to mix it up with the bush beans.
This food production is a LOT of work! (But SO worth it in the end!)