Recovery

The rains continued into this week, with another good dumping on Friday, but since then it has been sunny, dry and windy - in the end, good conditions for drying things out.

So this weekend was dedicated to catching up on weeding and seeding. Saturday I finally got the winter squash and pumpkins planted (Butternut, Sunshine, Hubbards, pie pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns). I also planted a second sowing a few other items - purple bush beans, soy beans, cucumbers, and golden bush zucchini. I replanted two varieties of corn that got flooded out (Spring Treat and Luscious). Lastly, I planted another variety of carrots for later harvesting (Sugarsnax).

Lots of weeding was also in order. Among other things, I had to find the basil buried among the weeds. Just a few more things still need weeding, most of them flowers, so I'm feeling just about caught up. I'm certainly getting good use of my scuttle hoe these days.

Here's what you're seeing in the photo:

• Upper left corner is broccoli, with some small zucchini sprouting to the right and some pumpkin mounds along the top of the photo.
• The white thing is some floating row cover over newly planted cucumbers. The eggplants are to the immediate left of the row cover.
  
• Left of the row cover is some very small basil starts, to the right are beans.
• In front of the row cover are onions, with the shallots to the left, and some radishes (and tons of weeds) to the left of the shallots.
• In the foreground are various greens - Tatsoi mustard, pac choi, arugula, lettuce mix and some small romaine bottom right.