Planting Out Eggplant and New Brassicas

Here is a list of the chores I finished this morning:

• Moved the kale from raised bed #13 and planted them along with six kale from Holden Farms into the traditional garden bed #1.

• Planted 6 green cabbage, 4 red cabbage and 6 brussel sprout plants purchased from Holden Farms in raised bed #13. I placed Agribon 19 fabric over the plants for now; I need to buy more clips to anchor it over the hoops.
• Transplanted the swiss chard from raised bed #14 into a raised bed outside the hoophouse (south side). 
• In raised bed #14, I planted seven different varieties of eggplant: 3 Diamond, 3 Asward, 1 Black Beauty, 1 Long Purple, 3 Ping Tung, 3 Shooting Stars and 3 Syrian Stuffing,   Behind the eggplant I planted 21 Boston Pickling cucumbers.  

• Weeded the potato bed.  Two potatoes seeds have not emerged. Don't have the heart to yank out two patches of rhubarb, one in and the other out of the potato bed.  I'll dig them out after the potatoes are harvested this summer. 

• The potatoes in the barrels are doing well, too. 

• I still haven't harvested the spinach.  It's first on the list for tomorrow. 

• Converted raised bed #10 into a full broccoli bed: 4 calabrese broccoli (those that remained after the squirrel ate the brassicas) and 12 broccoli plants purchased at Holden Farms. The bed was covered with Agribon 19 over PVC hoops (see in picture below the bed on the rear right side). 
• Covered most of the strawberry plants with netting, i.e., white tulle, blue tulle, cut up gazebo netting. 

• Covered the blueberry bushes with cut up gazebo netting. 

• Clipped off the lower leaves of the tomato plants. 

• Pinched off the two top leaves of the seven coleus plants in the container to encourage lateral growth. 

• Weeded a small area of the flower garden, starting from the top down.  I pulled out the geraniums that were planted midway down and at the bottom of the hill.  I will plant zinnias in their place. 

• The rabbit's ears snapped off as he fell off the table.  Don't you love superglue!!

• The kiwi raspberry bushes are healthy and robust; no flowers/berries have developed yet.