What a Day!

My HH worked at home yesterday and allowed me to work in the garden the entire morning!! Boy, did I get alot done!

• Transplanted cilantro seedlings to herb container on deck.
• Planted new Basil, Genevese seeds to herb container on deck.
• Tied morning glories to the deck railing.
• Tied morning glory to the baker's rack.
• Placed nasturtium on deck in picnic basket.
• Tidied up herbs, pinching off dried or dead leaves, etc. 
• Thinned and tied up cucumbers to deck railing.
• Transplanted arugula seedlings to large window boxes.
• Harvested radishes and neatened up large window boxes.
• Put in additional staked and tied up container tomatoes.
• Set up nylon nettings (3) for pole beans.
• Tied cucumbers to gazebo trellis.
• Weeded traditional row garden beds #1, #2, and #3.
• Sowed Envy soybeans in traditional row garden bed #3.
• First sighting of morning glory climbing deck.
• First sighting of small yellow squash and zucchini.
• Pinched off yellow leaves on butternut squash, really not many this year.
• Pinched off cucumber beetles, many this year.
• The corn in the center of the bed is approaching four feet tall.
• Lasagna bed in front of back yard fence is not ready for planting.  Need to mound more compostable material this coming week.
• Blueberries and kiwi raspberries still upripened.
• Four snowball white onions have gone to seed.
• Horseradish has finally taken hold, don't think animals will be interested any longer.
• Peas in raised bed #9 have been eaten by critters; will clear bed and plant another crop this coming week.  However, the green bean plants in that bed have managed to set some green beans. 
• Peppers and eggplants have finally taken good hold; are now at least a foot tall with good coloring
• Some of the potatoes show evidence of dying back.
• Tomatoes in the raised beds#1, #6, #11 and #15 are completely disease free, keeping fingers crossed.
• Shallots, Red Picasso, have split anywhere from three to seven bulbs.
• Transplanted the three cloned Principe Borghese tomatoes to a raised bed in back of hoophouse.
• Pulled arugula (went to seed, still delicious) and swiss chard (leaves diseased) in raised bed in back of hoophouse.
• Fennel is bulking up in raised bed in back of hoophouse.
• Transplanted Green Arrow Peas to raised bed in hoophouse.
• Transplanted two Thai Basil from herb container to raised bed in hoophouse.
• Sowed Spinach Bloomsdale in hoophouse raised bed.
• Transplanted one curley kale to raised bed in hoophouse.
• Pulled out arugula in hoophouse raised bed.
• Wound tomatoes around jute in hoophouse.
• Peas, Super Sugar Snap still producing in hoophouse, but tapering off. Should yank plants and reuse that space. 
• Two White Bush Lebanese squash have grown to inch tall in large container.  Pleased since only have one in the traditional row garden #3.
• Remember to plant Cherry Bell radishes, old reliable variety.