Victory garden is doing well for the most part. It's looking like the wet weather we had in May hurt a few of my tomato plants. I've given them all a good dose of fungicide and they're looking a little better now, but the jury is still out on half a dozen of them.
I did two plantings of potatoes a couple weeks apart. The later planting looks to be doing much better than the early planting. None of the plants are showing any sign of fungal disease, so probably is a result of the excessive rainfall in May. To be on the safe side I gave them all a dose of fungicide when I treated the tomatoes. Hopefully they will snap out of their funk and get on with it.
Mrs. Augie's cucumbers have begun to produce. She started three quarts of lacto-fermented pickles yesterday. Those should be the first of many to come this season. We've been eating green salad for a few weeks now. I'm hoping that putting that stuff on the shady-ish side of the garden will delay the bitterness that comes with summer heat. I noticed that quite a few of the pepper plants are starting to produce flower buds. The winter squashes are all vining like crazy and starting to make little baby squashes. Summer squash was planted out and is coming along nicely. Probably a week away from seeing blossoms on those.
In between fiddling in the garden I worked on a few other projects over the weekend. Got started removing a handful of dead trees below the pond dam. One down and mostly picked up, three still to go. The mulberry tree that came up in the garden fence not long after we built this place has been on my watch list for a couple years now. I left it alone in hopes that it was a female and would produce berries, but after ten-ish years it has become apparent that it is a male, so it's going to get whacked and will join its dead neighbors on my pile of stovewood.
I picked up a couple five-gallon pails of TWP on Saturday, and got the first coat applied to the swim dock. I'll put another coat on the deck, then circle back with a brush and get a good coat on the rim joists.
