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I had some time early to inspect the garden and was very satisfied with the stand of summer peas and okra. The tomatoes and squash that are growing in 5 gallon buckets as a raised bed are doing quite well also. With heavy rain due within an hour or so I'm waiting until Monday to plant Lima beans, sweet corn, cucumbers, cantaloupe and watermelons. As soon a a ridge making attachment arrives for the tiller I'll build beds for the 200 sweet potatoes plants residing in containers of water at the moment. I need to cut some bamboo for poles for the KY Blue pole beans by mid week and get them growing. A job of transplanting around 300 asparagus plants will come soon. In two years we will have our first harvest for the freezer. I started the plants in trays and have a much larger area to harvest from than if I had bought 1 year old roots. How long the harvest period here will be will dictate the size of the patch in the end. The harvest season may be so short that we will need a much larger area than we did in the Midwest. Our experience was that once the temps hit the mid 80's the asparagus would turn bitter and that was the end of the season's harvest.
But nothing is in the ground yet so all my pots and seedling trays get moved somewhere cozy.
My next dilemma will be when I have to leave 10 days before our last frost date..... I have to put every out and/or in ground.
I stand ready to go camping with my baby tomato and pepper plants.
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The summer peas are thinned and the tiller is ready now to fix a spot for the Lima beans. With the fair weather I hope to have more tomatoes and peppers in the ground. Even more squash too today.
It stays in the 50s here in CT for some strange reason this year. But it's time to thin the beets, and the nasturtiums are BIG. Cherry tomatoes are only about an inch tall but I transplanted the seedlings into individual pots and they seem to have grown overnight. (They're indoors on a crowded windowsill because it's way too cold to put them outside.)
I have one raised bed left on my current house, I used to have like 10, but we are selling and they had to go.
Today was inspection on our new property and I found a rear corner area I'm going to use for our farm that is pretty much the same size as the property I live on now. We're going from .22 acre to 2 acre and I think farming on limited space has given me real chops, it was a challenge.
I wonder what I bought these pool foam noodles for.
Whats going in the pots?? Peppers??
Later start this year (back at work in the office ), but lettuce and chard is growing well along with berries.
Hardening my tomatoes and peppers, planted my squashes (Butternut, zucchini, pumpkin, yellow) and cucumbers in the ground yesterday afternoon - still had a FREAKING frost yesterday, 3 days in a row. SHOULD be in the clear now though.
I've spent from 6:30 to 9:30 this morning hand watering the long rows of summer peas (cow peas), okra, and all the berries and fruit trees. I forgot the banana tree so I'm off to take care of it before going to a big dinner on the grounds at a neighboring farm. This afternoon I hope to plant Lima beans and sweet corn. The ground has been tilled and may just need a light raking to remove the sod fragments in the row areas. I was hesitant to plant a lot of limas and peas as to the bending required to pick them. That problem got solved by a local lady that will pick them on halves. That is a good deal for us both. My land, seed, & fertilizer and her back.
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Cherry tomatoes are only about an inch tall but I transplanted the seedlings into individual pots and they seem to have grown overnight. (They're indoors on a crowded windowsill because it's way too cold to put them outside.)
), but lettuce and chard is growing well along with berries. 
