and a lot was accomplished! Emily and Sam even helped.

• We loosened the soil in the entire garden (a huge job!).
• Fertilized the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and zucchini (with bone meal).
• Fertilized the basil and parsley (with blood meal).
• Transplanted the sage and dill out to the garden.
• Transplanted the thyme into its own little pot.
• Transplanted the basil into a temporary pot (I forgot I had this in the container with the other herbs – I’ll give it to my coworker who wanted a basil plant).
• Mulched the whole garden with straw (covers the soaker hose and will indicate for the kids where it’s safe to walk)
• Harvested a few strawberries, which the kids ate.
• Kevin planted more green beans where the cucumbers didn’t come up.
• Sowed the “Annual Flower Mix” seeds in a container.
• Sprayed the green beans, peppers, basil, tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini with the insecticidal soap (which is working wonderfully! Hardly a nibble on the bean plants anymore!)

I sweat so much I lost 5 pounds! And then I got rained on. It felt so great, it was the perfect cool-off.

Now we’ll just admire our work for a few days. We could see a few of the green bean seeds that I planted last weekend starting to poke through. Once they do, I’ll need to spray them before the bugs find them.