Memorial Weekend- 3 days of planting

3 full days off with Steve ready on the shovel, we began planting.  Steve dug all the holes for 48 tomato plants and I placed and covered them.  We also got 24 squash plants in and I transplanted 4 broccoli plants that needed more room.
Everything is in now except the seeds for the sunflowers.  I have to pick some up this week.
Steve dug draining trenches on the edges of the garden, because we needed a bit more drainage in the center of the garden.
I have lots of cultivating to do this week in the potato area and beans. Lots of grass is already popping up.
Picked 2 pounds of asparagus, we are now getting about a pound every two days. Lots of lettuce and the Swiss Chard just keeps on giving.  I picked about a pound of carrots, they were leftovers from the winter planting.
Steve was highly motivated this past weekend, he pulled up the wall-to-wall carpet in the office and is going to install new hardwood flooring. I can hear the house saying "thank you". We need to get it done before June 8th though.  Will and Lexi are coming to visit.

Planting done, just in the nick of time!

Woke up early on Saturday.  Had a quick breakfast and while we were eating we had a visitor. Our crazy rooster heard us talking because the windows were open and here he came for attention.  He hopped up on our patio table and let us know he wanted an invitation. He would come in the house if we let him.
Steve was on the tractor doing a final tilling in the garden, by 9:00 AM.
I picked some produce while that was happening.  4 lb. of Swiss chard, 2 lb. of asparagus, 4 lb. of lettuce and 1 lb. of spinach.  I dug up a few carrots to test for size and they need another week at least.  Garlic and onions are doing well and finally the potatoes are popping out.  It's been so cool up until this week everything was a bit slow.
So, by noon I was ready to plant.  First I went over to our second garden, which is in our neighbor Jim's yard.  This year he said we can garden in his yard as he is too old to garden the whole area. We tilled a plot that is 20' by 50'.  I planted 18 tomato plants, winter squash (both butternut & acorn) and planted seeds for Bull's Blood beets, two kinds or carrots, (yellow and orange), watermelon and cantaloupe.
Then went back to our garden and planted 22 cucumber plants, 8 peppers, 4 eggplant, 2 honey dew, musk melon and4  tomatillos.  Then I added some lavender plants and Rosemary. Those were the only herbs that didn't come back on their own this year.  I have 16 tomato plants still to go in but I was exhausted by 5:30 PM I just couldn't did another hole. I was going to put them in Sunday afternoon but as soon as I finished making my weekly batch of quiche, the storms came rumbling in.  We got a great dose of rain. Very good for my seeds.
We also stopped and bought some gold fish for our pond. We put in about 30 carp to keep things clean.  We'll add more at a later date, if we need them.
Quiche selections this week, 1. Spinach with bacon & Swiss and 2. Asparagus with French herb cheese. I try new recipes each week. The spinach, bacon & Swiss is definitely a repeat.  That was fabulous and I'll use that recipe a lot.  Then I make an experimental one and will add only the best to the list.  I may start taking orders for these. They are definitely good enough to share!