Veggie garden successfully corralled with bird netting to keep out marauding chickens... blueberry patch fully enclosed... just went up the hillside to check on my strawberry beds this morning and found--oh, NO!!!--a WOODCHUCK!!! *sigh.* That's the one pest we haven't had to deal with here--haven't seen any on our property for over a decade--but I guess it's time to invest in more critter-b-gone, netting, and shells for the .22 (otherwise known as critter-b-gone, phase II!)

On the bright side, we have tomatoes and peppers and squash blooming, peapods setting, and basil and carrots up between the tomatoes. Kale is being harvested regularly, as is the Swiss Chard. First planting of lettuce has bolted in the hoophouse. Time to yank it, give the stalks to the pigs and chickens, and plant again!