To start with, the strawberries have done fairly well. Several of them have wilted off, but most are flowering now. The dying ones are mostly around the edges, so I think they just aren't getting enough water and the soil may not have been as tilled, etc. I also have something eating some of the leaves. I will probably add some straw around them in the next day or two to preserve some moisture.
The root bed is doing okay. The onions look fabulous, and I have seedlings up for carrots, scallions, leeks, chard, a couple beets, spinach, and maybe a celery plant. I'm not sure why I'm never successful with beets and celery. Otherwise, there are lots of weeds, and some space for sweet potatoes later.
The brassica bed is doing fabulous. I've already harvested radishes and mustard greens. The turnips need to be thined, so we are gung ho into greens season. I bought new romaine lettuce seed, and it is up as well as the other lettuce and dill. I only have a few parsnip seedlings, so I'm pretty sure I need to buy new seeds for next year. The broccoli and cabbage plants I bought are now so big that the row cover doesn't fit over them completely. I'm still leaving it for now since it mostly covers and should hopefully prevent haphazard moths. I also planted some sunflowers in this bed, but they aren't up yet. I spent a while weeding in this bed today, and need to get more grass clippings on as mulch.
In the legume bed, the peas are growing like crazy and now have tons of blooms on them. I planted green beans and corn today, and put a layer of straw on the potatoes, which are now also up.
I weeded the fourth bed today, and we finally got the truck out of the mud. (It's been raining and raining all spring.) So, tomorrow I plan to go to the nursery to get mushroom soil to fill it up. I got tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant at Crabtree Farms spring plant sale, and the tomatoes are so tall they need to get in the ground ASAP.
I also have a ton of herbs in containers: chives, rosemary, thyme, oregano, chammomile, cilantro, parsley, and mint, as well as a salad mix. They are mostly doing pretty well. I need to find some sage and plant basil very soon.
