Work Bee

I love our holiday Monday work parties. I spent much of last week obsessively checking the weather, worried that this one would be thunderstormed out. But the rain gods were smiling down on us (or maybe just momentarily distracted) and we managed to escape the entire work day entire dry (we won't talk about the deluge in the evening that left big puddles in the newly-planted shallots and pounded the bejeebers out of the wee carrots...).

We are for a brief moment entirely caught up with our planting! This feels awesome after weeks of being held up due to too much wet weather. Here's what we did.

Planted all the zukes & cukes & tucked them under row cover, safe from the nasty striped cucumber beetle:

Trellised the peas:

Planted flowers, shallots & celeriac:

Seeded tatsoi, chinese broccoli and radishes:

Spread compost on many beds planted prior to my neighbour being free to broadcast it with his manure spreader:

And hoed the swiss chard:

What an awesome day. Huge thanks to the stoic volunteers who braved the predicted storms to spend a day in the fields. You're all superstars. I wouldn't have handled the evening's downpour nearly so graciously without you!