TIA- Arugula greens are delicious prepared as Janie suggested, as well as in soups and salads. Chop them and use in quiche or lasagna. You can also lightly steam them, freeze in portions on an oiled pan, then bag and store in the freezer for winter meals.

Dry Maine finally has a few days of rain, so my task is to continue poking seeds in as fast as I can manage, whether in the vegetable gardens between showers or in the greenhouse. We're growing a succession of veggie and flower seedlings to plant as earlier crops are harvested. I'd been thinking the drought would inhibit the earlier plantings from sprouting in the clay, but last year's brutal months of carting compost (horse manure and wood shavings) paid off. My various pea seedlings were breaking ground 4 days after planting the soaked seed.

I ran out of daylight trying to get the 7 potato varieties in, so this year I just forked over the ground and put the spud on the surface, mulching thickly with old hay. I've found a source for seaweed, so I hope to pile that on top at least once; otherwise, more hay as the sprouts grow. The pre-soaked sweet corn and pole beans I didn't manage to plant before dark I've just sprinkled on a flat full of potting mix, covering lightly. I'll plant the sprouted seed in the garden once the soil can be worked again.

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