May 13 status

Put in dahlias a couple days ago, and peppers, eggplant and tomatoes about a week ago.

Bed 1: tomatoes and peas.  Not sure how well the peas are doing.  I put down the last iron sulfate  (beds 1,2, and quarterplot) a couple weeks ago, plus blood meal (all plots) about 3 weeks ago. Have the frame for the netting up.  Need to spray copper.

Bed 2  the peas in the center of the pea and the onions in the center are doing very well, as is the radishes and spinach in that area .  The vegetables on either end aren't doing as well.  Lisa's lost lettuce from the far end--I'm not sure of the cause. Some lettuce is doing okay, but not great.  The new iris isn't doing well but the parsley is.

Bed 3 Lisa has leeks, chard, betts and something I forget from path end to center.  The eggplant is at the far end, the plants are healthy and under the row cover.

Bed 4  The new glads are doing very well, up about 8", while the old ones aren't.  Don't know if they got dehydrated,  don't think there was much difference in the depth.  The broccoli and a cabbage are starting to take off, but the other cabbages are slow.  Picked a few cabbage worms.

North Quarter: the dahlias, 11 old ones plus a duplicate, most of which had pale sprouts. A few cases there's multiple tubers in one hill.

South Quarter:  the peppers at one end, 3 new dahlias at the other.  Put the peppers here to try to get ahead of the nematodes(?) or whatever it was that hit them last year, due I think to their following the tomatoes.

Lisa has several squash plants started.  I'm thinking squash in South Quarter and bed 3, beans in beds 2 and 4, we'll see.

Weather has been dry--down about 5 inches at Dulles, though we had a good rain in late April and the soil still seems moist when turned.