The 7′ of swiss chard has been producing very well.  I probably get 3 dozen leaves per week.  Beans and peas took me by surprise yesterday.  I wasn’t watching them very closely and now found about a dozen beans and a dozen pea pods ready for picking.  Plenty of flowers on the cucumbers now, so hopefully that will amount to something too.

My dad and I took two tree stumps out of my yard last weekend so Connor and I put the sawdust/chips around the plants this past week.  It looks real nice, but there wasn’t quite enough to cover everything.

I staked the pea trellis today to make it a little more sturdy.  It was getting pretty heavy and blowing all over the place in the wind.  Note to self:  planting a row of peas and a row of pea pods right next to each other and letting them climb the same trellis is a bad idea.  You can’t tell which pods are pods and which ones will be peas.  I tagged all of the pod plants today with a little string so I can tell the difference.  Next year if I plant both again I will put the pods at one end of the trellis and the peas at the other.

That’s all for now.  I’ll get some more pictures up soon.

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