Busy, lots going on

I transplanted cabbages, red and green small early ones.  I have also been replanting peas.  We had lousy germination.  The ground must have been too wet and cold and the seed rotted.  There's a fairly good sprout of sugar snaps - the edible filled-pod peas.  All the snow pea seed was planted and about 1/3 came up.  The shelling peas are what had the worst germination.  I hope they bear well before it gets really hot. This seems late to be planting them. Peas like cooler weather.

Chris Kunkel came up to help out yesterday.  We picked lettuces and seeded flats of pak choi, chinese cabbage, red cabbage, & many kinds of flowers.  Thanks, Chris!

I worked with the tomatoes:  checking and counting plants, planting some more seed of many varieties.

Bill & Mike worked most of the week on the new shop:  got the electricity and lights going, painted, put in all kinds of counters and shelving and are moving tools and parts out of the garage and into the new shop!  It's a great space!  We bought stain for the outside today.  It will match the house and garage.

Bill and I went to Lansing last night for a friend's 50th birthday party.  Left here about 6:30pm, got home about 1:30 pm today.  The neighbors opened up the hoophouse and greenhouse, but it still got so sunny that things overheated without us here to move fans, etc.  The range of temps in the hoophouse over 24 hrs was 39 degrees up to 109 degrees!  Oh dear!  NOT good!  I have watered and babied things this afternoon helping them to recover from the heat stress.