All tomatoes are planted - only 18 plants this year, less than half of the previous year - but with a little extra care and diligence I could end up reaping the same harvest.  We shall see. I lost one tomato to a cutworm, another to a raccoon.  To fend off more cutworms, I decided to ...

It's been an amazing week for gardening, weather wise.  On Monday, I sowed cilantro, green pole beans, yellow bush beans and shelling peas.  I also finally transplanted my ailing onions and leeks, and my stellar parsley; they should have been put in the ground ages ago.  Wednesday, I sowed more beets and carrots; also chard, corn ...