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Sunday, June 15th, 2008

In an unbelievably balmy weekend, actually kissing the average highs for the season with enough sun to burn my whiter than white shoulders (it’s a good sting, sort of), we planted everything but the watermelons in their permanent homes. We have too many cauliflowers. The original ones have grown much bigger leaves that are overlapping each other.

We pulled up the bolting spinach and a few of the lettuce and replanted. Here is a syphid fly (sweat bee) hovering over them before the destruction:

Several tiny pieces of doomed tomato plant that I dug into the garden plot ended up sending out roots. If an inch and a half is all that a tomato needs, I hate to think what a japanese plant can get by on. We also have a volunteer tomato, probably from seeds from rotten tomatoes we left on the ground from last year.

I doubt it will make it so far as to give us fruit so that we actually can identify the variety.

These are the spots on the yellow pear leaves (and more cat deterring purple yarn!). It hasn’t gotten any worse lately. We weren’t able to find any copper sprays at McLendon’s. Perhaps the warmer, dryer weather is helping.

It wasn’t exactly ideal, but here is one of our carrots, now in the ground around the tomatoes. We hope they can push through the stringy pots. I prefer the peat ones, that apparently Bellingham has a monopoly on.

And chives:

I saw my first blackberry flowers on Friday.

We bought two Atris sweet pepper plants at the Olympia Farmer’s Market. The container book of goodness says that peppers are related to tomatoes, and similarly don’t like cold, so they will be ferried inside at night with their containered cousins.

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