The weather has been extreme. We had a ton of rain in late April/early May immediately followed by some really hot and dry weather. Over the last few weeks we're back to getting a whole lot of rain. It's been a challenge to grow stuff. I lost all the corn and many attempts at getting our saved pole beans to grow. In the end, we have about a dozen green pole bean plants growing (plus a healthy amount of the purple pole beans), but it's been tedious to get them to grow. The tomatoes are finally ripening, but with all the rain recently they're splitting. The pumpkin, peanut, and muskmelons are all waterlogged with the plants suffering mightily.
I planted a few more blueberries, the kiwi starters, two peach trees, an Asian persimmon, the elderberry starters, and the mulberry starters in the orchard. All but one kiwi starter died. The mulberries are stunted. I didn't put up the netting fast enough so we lost all of the peaches we had on the new peach trees thanks to the deer. We also lost almost all our blueberries for the same reason. We finally have some apples although they're small.
In good news we traded 14 of our cucumbers (Edmonson, a strange looking variety) plus $1 for a dozen eggs, 2 good-sized bell peppers, and 6 peaches a few weeks ago at the local indoor farm market.
We're finally getting more beans and tomatoes. Also, our first artichoke!
