More Veggies.

5-27-11 VERMONT: Last night there were severe T-storms to the north of us, we could see lightening strikes almost continuously in the distance. There was flooding, at least one house fire from a lightening strike and trees down from high wind. Here we only got a bit of rain last night and more this evening totalling 0.25 inches, delivered with a bit of thunder.

Yesterday I mowed the high grass around the veggie garden, finished tacking down the plastic mulch, and put up the electric fence. The fence has three strands, the bottom for rodents, the middle for dogs and the top for horses and cows. We will probably have both a horse and three cows in the pasture this summer.

With the bed finally made, I started planting tomatoes yesterday and finished this morning and then put down corn seed and pumpkins and Swiss chard [free seeds]. I still have to do the tomato cages, but then I’m done with the veggies except for watering as needed and harvesting in August. I will have to thin the corn to one stalk per hill at some point, when it’s knee high.

The last two days have been in the eighties, and our painted turtle has started sun bathing in the afternoon. The apple trees are about at peak, and the one on the corner of the deck is stunning, as usual.

New blooms: sweet woodruff.


Patio and apple tree yesterday.

Apple trees today, almost at peak.

Evening sky trying to decide whether we get more rain or not.