Another nice day but no rain.  The forecast is always for rain, as it should be this time of year but we get none of it here on the mountain.  We are so dry I had to water this morning, all the gardens.  I water the onions every other day anyways unless it rains that day as they must stay moist if they are to be sweet and grown large.  We have some every day with out lettuce and aspagrus from the garden, what a wonderful salad that makes for supper.  The raspberries are looking great.  The cane from last year stands 4 to 6 feet tall.  I try to keep it cut as tall as the fence that holds it up because if you let it bend down and touch the ground it spends all its energy rooting and starting a new plant.  Right now we have all the plants we need so I want them to spend their energy on fruit.  Every old cane is leafed out and starting to set buds.  The extra energy each plant has is put into new shoots coming up from the root.  These will be the fruiting cane for next year.  Every plant has 1 to 6 new canes coming up and all of them are nice and strong.  None of them are the tiny skinny shoots I got last year.  I guess they like the horse manure and supper rainbow I gave them when we got home  in March.  It looks like we will have a nice crop of raspberries.  Then every cane that has berries this year will be cut off about an inch from the ground and discarded and burned.  This is necessary so the patch doesn’t get chocked out by the old cane which only bears fruit one year.   The  green beans are up and looking good, now if we can keep the weather nice we will have some early beans to go with the peas and new potatoes.  We are almost done weeding the tomato bed.  One more day will finish that.  Yesterday I transplanted 15 tomato plants from the egg shells to a 3 inch pot.  I didn’t take them out of the egg shell just punched a hole in the bottom of the shell to let the roots out more easily.   Nice to hear from you Nancy.  Try again with the comments, maybe this time it will go through.  You don’t see it until I approve the comment and of course I will and answer it too.  have a great day!