Tasks
- Watered pea seedlings and beans
- Trained pea limbs to the trellis beside it
Notes
- Harvested a few snap peas
- The new butternut squash plant is huge!
- Weather nice and sunny - not too hot
- Bee balm is in bloom
- Aphids are undetectable on the fruit trees!!
July 2
Tasks
- Rebuilt broken rain barrel stand
- Drained rain barrel and placed on repaired stand
Notes
- Weather warm and sunny until strong shower later in the day
Harvested
- 300 grams Simpson Elite lettuce
- 200 grams Rare Red romaine
- 3 strawberries
June 30th
Tasks
- Put squirrel netting over beans and peppers because seeds were uprooted and plants nibbled
- Sprayed with insecticidal soap
- Emptied rain barrel to repair broken stand underneath
- Replanted beans that were dug up
Notes
- Weather - warm/not too sunny
- Trying to ID caterpillar/larvae on fruit trees
- Harvested strawberries - very good!
June 28th
Tasks
- Leveled path stones
- Checked for aphids
- Weeded creeping Charlie
Notes
- Harvested strawberries, red and green lettuce
- Lettuce at back of the garden is completely gone - slugs/squirrels?
- Red and green lettuce is very bitter
- Peas are coming up
- Squirrels ate bean plants
- Blueberries are iron deficient - given bloodmeal and bonemeal
- Peas are outgrowing trellis
- Weather - chilly, looks like rain