Well, we did it.  The kids and I spent 5 or 6 hours in the garden this weekend, cleaning up the weeds that grew like a jungle while we were in Florida for two weeks.  We thinned everything, set up the tomato cages and the pea trellis.  Still a little work to do this week, but we worked really hard.  Grow, baby, grow!

I harvested a ton of lettuce on Saturday and a couple of the radishes.

I also did another pesticide application on Saturday.  The bugs had done a pretty good number on the beans and squashes.  Everything else seemed okay.  One interesting observation I made on Saturday was that the weeds were full of holes in the leaves, while my plants, for the most part, were untouched.  I think the reason was that before we left for Florida, I had cleaned up all the weeds and applied the pesticide.  So any new weeds that came up while we were gone didn’t have the pesticide, and were fair game for the bugs.  That makes me really glad I applied it before I left.

Here, compare this picture to the one from Friday:

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