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[OakLeaf]

It's been too wet to work my soil. I did get home just in time to do the initial tilling before the rain set in.

The next few days are supposed to be dry and windy, so hopefully I'll get my beds dug and some seeds planted pretty soon. My seed order came today. Once again I'll have to buy tomato and pepper plants, but I'm actually going to direct seed a few tomatoes for a fall crop. The last couple of years I've let some volunteer tomatoes grow, and I've had a reasonable yield from them after the "adopted" plants were spent.

Two stems of my red kale survived the winter and were sending out new leaves when I got home. I had no idea it was a perennial! They looked so delicious I couldn't bear to till them in, so I just tilled around that bed and the adjacent one that had all kinds of volunteer cilantro and mustard greens going (never did get around to harvesting those coriander seeds last fall ). It was a PITA maneuvering the big tiller around a small space like that, but greens are so worth it.