The garden is flourishing. The sugar snap peas have outgrown their stakes. We have baby tomatoes and peppers. We are picking broccoli and kohlrabi. We've never grown kohlrabi and it's delicious, sort of like a sweet turnip. We'll be planting it again. We transplanted the strawberries from pots into raised beds and they're doing well. So far we've picked 16 strawberries. That was our entire harvest last year so we'll at least be equal. Something is eating the strawberries, though. Phillip thinks it's slugs. We are battling them by putting eggshells around the plants.
Phillip took the base of an old treadle sewing machine and a vanity top that he found in the outbuilding and made a garden sink for me. He did a great job. The water drains to the bucket underneath and I use it to water the gardens. It is handy to wash the vegetables before we bring them in to the kitchen.
The old washing machine stopped working, with a full tub of water and a load of Phillip's work jeans, of course. We decided not to buy a front loader or an HE, just a regular machine. So far, I've been pleased with it.
I'll close this post with pictures taken at our Memorial Day cookout. The weather was perfect and we had a really good time. Jason brought his Kubb game and even Jonas got into the spirit of the Vikings. Jason was our chief cook but everyone contributed to the meal. It was all delicious and I ate way too much.
