June's Back!

What a May we've had! I am not your usual sun-loving gardener, even though I have great appreciation for it. Twelve to thirteen hours a day of working in the sun, however, sort of changes your perspective on attire. I'm not going for the beach tan of my youth. Give me a long, breezy shirt and a larger than real sun hat and I'm happy. When the days are hot like these, breaks require laying around under the hickories or dips in the local swimming hole.

You may have caught my reference above to the 12-13 hour days we've been working lately. We've been in full gear and that leaves me very little time or energy for sitting down at the computer, hence my blogging negligence. Heck, I'm lucky if I can get my shoes off before climbing into bed. We've found our rhythm though and the bulk of our late spring planting and winter bed prep/planting should wrap up in the next two weeks.

I've put together a few pictures to show you what's happening around here:

mounded Yukon Gold potato bed;
cicada exoskeleton found on a pepper plant in the greenhouse;
at least once a week, one of our chickens lays a monstrous egg with a double yolk. As you can see, we can't even close the box it's so big!;
our leaf lettuce bed, aka the divas of the garden since they like to be shaded and misted in the hot weather(ah, what we do for sweet sweet salad greens);
David mulching around the pimento peppers in the greenhouse;
David with big smile(caught on camera! boy, I'm good!) planting tomatoes.