From the flower bed

Think this is called Sweet William.

Bob is mowing the first hay of the season this morning!!! Please cross your fingers that it dries! The weather, NOAA, seems to change every time we check it. This morning it has no rain posted for today and tomorrow so we're going for it.

Something is eating my plants!

Something or someone has been eating all my squash plants AND my pepper plants. They seem to eat some of the leaves, but not all of them. Some of the leaves they just leave beside the plant. I have seen no woodchucks nearby but I have seen rabbits. More than one person swears that a rabbit will not do this. I don't believe it. I have put mouse traps and human hair around them. It doesn't help. Any ideas would be welcome. Thank you.

Gardens

I have been soooooo busy trying to get all the gardens in order. Had to replant the green beans. I thought maybe it was too cold when I planted them but when I went to redo the area yesterday I found no old bean seeds. UGH!
Jake started all of our tomato and pepper plants in the green house at school. Great plants. He also started some herbs. I'm finally putting in a very small kitchen garden where I'll have my herbs.
The annual flower containers and window boxes look good so far.
The perennial beds are a LOT of work. So much harder to control the weeds when you don't till up the soil every year.
Something has been eating the summer squash plants. Think I need to sit out there at night with a pea shooter. We have mouse traps and human hair around them now. Anyone have the solution for keeping the nasty pests away, let me know!

Spring Planting

We had a busy weekend. We planted 5 out of the 6 new apple trees that we bought. Our youngest and I also planted 25 new strawberry plants. Those somehow took up more space than I anticipated. I bought some new asparagus roots too. Jake helped me start digging for that project. We'll put them over by the other asparagus we already have. The peas I planted are up and so are the radishes. The flower beds need constant attention. I don't know if they will ever be done. Good news on the raspberries. Finally, they have caught on. It looks like they all made it thru the winter and there are many new plants. Oh, and the lawn got mowed. Jake did that w/ his own tractor. The manure pile is mostly spread. Bob put it on our hay field. The grass was really growing well and now it looks kind of beat down since they had to drag the field after spreading because the spreader was not working right. Anyway, we avoided the rain (knock on wood) and had a very productive weekend.