As it commonly seems to happen in life, things went from weather-delayed to all out melee!
After some serious record-breaking precipitation, I found myself facing a very narrow window to get all my warm weather crops into the ground. That of course meant that I was going to get an awesome workout and boy did I ever work my carcass ragged over the last couple days!
I got all the pepper plants transplanted:
Seeded my corn and sunflowers:
Paused to admire my ready to be stewed in a bowl of Udon noodles Asian greens:
And then went on to transplanting about fifty tomato plants.
Also, it was humid. Very humid. Which I think had to do with my doc saying I had lost weight at today's six month check-up, Yay Farm Girl Fitness!
Anyway, I also transplanted around thirty basil plants. I like to intermittently plunk them throughout the cold season stuff, as they tend to just get growing good around when the cold season crops are maturing. It's worked before, so I did it again.
Even the baby basils smell amazing, so I never mind that job.
Since I had to collect all the seedlings from the greenhouse, it gave me a chance to check on my very last seeding/transplanting job of the season, which I think I will get to tomorrow as long as it doesn't rain, the squash and cucumber lot.
My tray of pumpkins looks rather glorious considering I had to start them so late thanks to our record-breaking cold and damp spring. I think they will catch up right nicely though, just need a bit of heat!
And my whole day was made by this green little spear peaking through the compost:
It's a dahlia! I have always loved dahlias! My grandma's neighbor down the road grew dahlias and gladiolas in large amounts and I remember being captivated by them as a kid. So in a very un-like Kat moment of impulsiveness, I grabbed a couple dahlia tubers at the farm store. I can't wait til they bloom!
As I stepped out of the greenhouse to take yet another tray of seedlings over to the garden, I snapped a pic of the finally fully leafed out chestnut tree. Our paint horse mare, Jemma, posed quite nicely for the capture, don't ya think?
And on that note, I must jet. There's a post to post, chores to be chored, and this afternoon my youngest takes his driving test and exam!
Hope you all are having a splendid day!
And as most of the time, all of the images in this post were taken by the author on her very well-used and thoroughly un-composted iPhone. The text divider image was made in Canva.