Doing my first pass of watering for the year before the heat we're supposed to have this week (32C daytime, 14C nighttime, which is surprising for us). I need some sort of a pressure booster for my hoses, the pressure tank for my well is too erratic to do irrigation usefully, but here we are.
My squash are sending up male flowers only so far, but a couple melons are somehow a little ahead of the squashes.
I've been doing a bit of weeding, the pennycress is almost seeding so I'm trying to get it to the pigs before the seed drops.
Daikon is up and on its first set of (slightly flea-beetled) leaves, along with more lettuces etc. Turnips are lovely. Still in love with b carinata, which has leaves thick enough that the flea beetles don't really impact it substantially-- the leaves get pocked but not holes nor broken down into lace.
The Crowpocalypse on my corn beds meant I'd underseeded a bunch of my corn with greens, including lettuces, and then replanted the beds when the corn was killed. There was enough soil disturbance to make the underplanting very patchy, and I'd taken those markers down in the garden. Now I have a very splashy, breathtakingly lovely collection of mostly-romaine-looking lettuces that I cannot trace back to their origin, but I very much want to keep growing in the future. Letting some go to seed was always the plan, so this doesn't really change much. They really are gorgeous though.
My dry beans are very slow, blossoms on some of them just coming out and others probably will wait till later this week. Also my favas don't seem to be setting seed right? They bloom and then shrivel.
I'm collecting seed from my first capsicum pubescens crosses, which is fun. I'm not yet used to opening them up and seeing black seeds. The plants seem to be unhappy on my deck, they're pretty yellow, I think it may be sun bleaching.
Most of my energy is going into a new permaculture food forest-style perennial planting down by the house: apples, ribes, old roses, haskaps, sour cherries, grapes, comfrey, rhubarb, sweet ciciley, asparagus, mint, horseradish, skirret, that sort of thing all with some serious microclimating plans. I know I'll later regret putting it in without eradicating the aspen completely first, but I want to put in the screen for my neighbours asap.