Grand Dash to Get All Planted- Done!

Well...it has been a grand dash to get everything planted.  Here's what I have left to do:

Tomatillos, basil, parsley and other herbs, flowers, chard, cabbage and Brussels sprouts awaiting planting.

My mother and my sister helped plant eggplants and hot peppers over the weekend.  In the last week, we planted the last 100 tomato plants, sweet peppers, sweet potatoes (see below), radishes, ground cherries, beets, carrots, cilantro, and more salad greens, cucumbers and summer squash.

Speaking of sweet potatoes, they look rather anemic when the slips come through the mail.  They like heat and dry conditions.  We will see how things turn out for us in September.  The variety that grows best for many Northern growers is Beauregard.

I put these in last week.  By yesterday, some were thriving with new lovely purple and green leaves and some look like they did not survive the transplant.  It's too early to tell. 

The lower field of thirteen 100-ft beds now has less than 60 feet empty.   The upper field has grown to nineteen 140-ft beds, with two beds left to be planted.

Sweet potatoes, two kinds of eggplant, salad  greens sprouting and the ground cherries.
Dashing out of the field before a thunderstorm, this is the bottom of the upper field.

Parsley and cilantro transplants border the slow to germinate carrots and the quick germinating lettuce.   Now, it's time to help them grow by weeding, scouting for pests and fertilizing, if needed.