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I finally finished weeding the garden today. The herbs are holding their own, and two pepper plants survived. Of the four tomato plants, two have small green fruits on them and there are lots of yellow flowers. The tomatoes are staying in their cages pretty well, and the one without a cage is staying upright and healthy. The green beans are blooming, with one tiny baby bean growing so far. The green bean plants are very small, with smaller and fewer leaves than last year. I don’t know if it’s the weather, or possibly planting in the same soil where good green-bean-nutrients are a bit depleted. Only about half the bean plants came up, but I think a few more are trying now, and I re-seeded a few just to see if they’d do anything.

The greens are coming up in clumps, as usual, so I tried to thin out the really crowded ones and move a few into the gaps where none grew, hoping that all will have more room to leaf out. We’ll see if the transplants go or not. But, the piece de resistance: we harvested our first salad today – enough for two dinner salads and one serving left over. There was a tasty mix of red and green, frilly, plain, and pointy leaf lettuces.