On Monday evening, after he got home from work, Andy was able to rototill some of the beds we will use for our tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and basil.

On Tuesday, after planting 1,000 chard plants with Isaac (he volunteers here each morning), Shiela worked at laying the plastic that we will plant those crops into. We are trying a red plastic this year for our tomatoes. Research has shown that the red reflects the spectrums of light needed to ripen more fruits. So far we like the black plastic better. It is easier to lay. The red is thin and tears easily. We'll see what the tomatoes think.

Wednesday we finished up the plastic for tomatoes, and planted a bunch of them. Ethan even helped! We got about halfway through that when darkeness came and made us stop. The rains have kept us out of the field since then. I hope this pattern breaks soon. We have alot to plant in our fields, and I was hoping to get it all planted before the soil warms too much and the weeds really get growing.

Thursday Shiela seeded lettuces for the summer and transplanted a few straggler cabbages and kohlrabis, shile I ran to get some last minute supplies to prepare for our first pick ups of the season.

Today (because our fields are too wet and sticky to get into) we will work on the herb garden and transplant some of the perenials from what I thought would be a nice bed near our house. It is an overgrown grassy mess, and it gets worse every year. We are making a patch of flowers near our pick up area with landscape cloth that was left over from the floor of our greenhouse. I can't wait to have flowers that we can see!