Last week I did some major garden cleanup, planted an apricot tree,
planted a row of asparagus (have another couple of rows to do and
transplanted a few perennials. There's more weeding to do that I
couldn't do last fall since I was still recuperating from a hip
transplant. I have a lot of transplanting to do this year - young
blueberry bushes, a couple of one year old grape vines, asparagus and
a lot of perennials. We added height to some of our stone terraces and
I have to dig out the perennials and asparagus so they can add more
soil. Then I can re-plant. I've also ordered more grape vines, berry
bushes and perennials so I'll be getting a lot of garden exercise in
the next month.

It's been raining the past few days and I've had house guests, so I
couldn't get anything planted. My spinach, broccoli, cabbage, and kale
starts are outside hardening and doing well since we haven't had any
frost nights. I'm having a cold frame made that will be installed
early this week so I'll be able to move some of my more tender
seedlings in there.

I've also been re-potting some seedlings from seed starter mix to
regular potting soil - parsley, lobelia, snapdragons, etc. The house
is getting over run with seedlings so that cold frame is going to be
very appreciated. I started a lot of tomato seeds and only 4 came up
so I planted some more. None of my pepper seeds came up.Is anyone else
finding that seeds in the last year or two have a low sprouting rate?

I lost some seedlings to wilt. I guess I transplanted them too early
and I didn't have any of that anti-wilt liquid. They had strong second
leaves and I don't know why they wilted; but I lost all my money plant
seedlings, some artichokes and others.

June