If you look super closely at roughly the middle of this pretty horrible picture, you can see three green cherry tomatoes that are now about the size of a marble.
I completed the chicken-wire fencing which now surrounds every one of the raised beds. I think this may be just in time, as we have more small furry creatures out there than I really like to think about. We've got the chipmunks which enjoy running around the house. We've got grey squirrels, which don't seem to be a problem. We do have a new development for our yard as well, tiny baby bunnies.
While extremely cute, I also fear their destructive possibilities.
Here is another award-winning photo - this time of a bunny
Succession planting, it turns out, is a little tricky. The rocket, spinach, and kale planted in April are all done. Unfortunately, the flame lettuce I planted on 6/2 never came up. Neither did the butter crunch lettuce planted 5/15. This leaves Seed Savers lettuce variety pack planted 5/31, which, at this writing is only about 1" tall, kale planted 6/6 (which I don't hold out a lot of hope for because of the hot weather), and rocket planted 6/9.
I hope that some of this comes up before the tomatoes start to mature.
Peppers are also problematic. I had to relocate the peppers that are in terracotta pots from the side of the garage. We lost three to rodents, and I didn't want to lose the rest. The problem is that, despite incredibly hot weather (we had the longest run of 90 degree temperatures Minnesota has ever seen in June), plenty of water (watered every day), they - all of them, not just the ones in pots - seem to just sort of sit there. Some of them don't look any bigger than when they were transplanted from the greenhouse into the ground more than a month ago. Not nearly the expected growth. I hope that the summer is long enough for them to make it.
We shall see.
Today, we're getting the first rain we've had in about 3 weeks. It's long overdue, and we're not getting enough of it. So far there are no special watering restrictions, but nevertheless, one rain barrel is not cutting it - not even close.
That is all.
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