Cucumber attack

Today I was out direct seeding all of my beans and a few more peas. As I was comparing my trellis’ to my garden plan drawing I was confused because I was supposed to be looking at cucumbers. About 10 of them. That I so lovingly raised from seed and transplanted last week. I looked closely and found one sad stem munched almost at the base. Aargh. I am going to have put something out there to keep the Japanese cukes from getting munched. Good thing I ran out of time to transplant them.

At least now i have plenty of room to transplant them :). I planted two pole beans and two bush beans today as well as three kinds of peas. More notes on that later.

Also I transplanted my sweet peas outside and then it got very very wet and rainy. Not sure any will make it 😦 And I had such high hopes. I have two more beans/peas to plant from West Seattle Nursery and unfortunately one of my dear dear children removed the tags. I guess we will all have to wait and see what comes up.

I think this lady is in WA state but not sure – wow what a garden!

http://www.modernvictorygarden.com/apps/blog/

The other four blogs I am reading lately for gardening inspiration –

http://www.sustainableeats.com/

and

http://urbanhennery.com/

and

http://www.digginfood.com/

and

http://shibaguyz.com/

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Great article on succession lettuce planting

Really enjoying this blog – Diggin Food – at the bottom of this page there is a photo of lettuce – click and you get a very helpful pdf on succession lettuce planting. Yum is all I can say.

Also if you are crazy about peppers like we are – this article was great on growing and cooking, freezing peppers.

Yep – I am totally back into garden fever over here and doing tons of research and reading to prep for this year.

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