Lots of rain, bringing our drought down to “moderate”—YIPPEE! from “severe”, which is what it dropped to after the record April snows, from “exceptional”.
Still have to put in the 2 Nan-King bush cherries; corn, cowpeas, black oilseed sunflowers, and cukes & zukes. May plant some cowpeas & okra, too.
We’ve put in 2 grapes; 5 black raspberries; 18 more asparagus plants...and found & transplanted 4 volunteers from seeds of one my “male” Jersey Knights that flowers & fruits every year. That brings us to 40 asparagus plants.
The grey-stripe sunflowers are sprouting, and will need thinned; I used the Earthway seeder, with the corn plate, which planted about 450 seeds in a space allotted to about 200-250; I had planned on using the Lima bean plate, because of the wider spacing, but it wouldn’t pick up the seeds.
The Carmine Jewel sweet bush cherry is full of blossoms, the first time it’s flowered since we planted it. I don’t really expect fruit this year, but it is a promise of things to come.
The big planting of Sugar Snap Peas is coming along nicely, and the produce manager at one of the local markets is interested in buying some of them when ready, if they are decent.
Current project is getting a chicken yard enclosed, so they can be outside during the day.
I dug out 2 small rhubarbs today that I had transplanted into a “temporary” bed 6 or 8 years ago, and discovered they had divided into 14 or 15 separated plants. “Worse” I have 6 or 8 more of them to dig & move.
Great news about the improved drought situation. You have made great progress with you gardening this spring. Just reading the post makes me wish I had more energy, because I’d probably be passed out from all the effort.LOL