The garden is all planted and growing well.  We have had more rain this spring than normal and many areas are flooding but we are doing well.  Last week we had over three inches in two days and then in less than a week we had another four inches in two days but all of the gardens just drank it up and didn’t even get puddles while other farms were flooded.  We have had to water only once this spring.  We get our inch every week like clock work.  We got in a hundred potatoes plants and they are large enough now to have some of them blooming.  We should be able to get some small potatoes to eat next week or the week after.  We put in 114 tomato plants and have lost only three so should get enough tomatoes to make sauce for everyone in the family.  They are growing well and this next week we will need to tie the them up to the first supports.  We have been eating the lettuce and green onions and now have the second planting of lettuce up.  The only trouble we had was poor germination this spring and guess the problem was the ground was too cold for the early planting. Weather wise we are about a month behind last year but things are back to normal now.  We have been eating the rhubarb and that is so good made into a flummery (sauce)  I serve it with any meat dish and put it into the apple pie to give it an extra zip.  This is the first year for rhubarb.  We have had about three weeks of asparagus and last night had our last meal of it for this year.  It is time now to let it go to seed to build up their roots.  Next year we will have more as we will be able to cut some of the new roots we put in last year.  The summer squash is up and getting larger every day, the one row of green beans are doing well and getting little buds.  The bok choy is not far from being ready to pick, we have 24 plants growing well.  We also have Brussel sprouts, green peppers, beets, and butternut squash up and growing but a long way from eating those.  We have had one meal of spinach and will have more tomorrow.  Norman put in a second planting of spinach but it is not up yet and the kolrabi is not up yet.  Last week we put in 50 leek plants and they have enjoyed to rain we got today.   The blue berries, both wild and cultivated are getting large and should be ready to pick in a couple weeks.  The raspberries are budding and look like we will have a great crop.  The grapes are loaded but have not bloomed yet.  The Moon Glow pear tree has about a dozen pears on it and a robin nesting in their branches.  She has a fit when we go near the tree.  The Bartlet pear has a few pears way up high but not too many, this is its first year to bear.  The peach trees both have far more peaches on them than I thought they would have so we are pleased with them.  The poor apples still aren’t doing much.  They had flowers this year but I can’t see that they set any fruit.  Time will tell on those.

May 30th Joe closes on his house and they will move in on the 31st.  Can’t wait to have them near.  Have a good day.