The vegetable garden is making progress. The sweet potato plants finally arrived in the mail yesterday, so everything is in hand. We got a lot of the tomato and pepper transplants, more than half the potatoes and some vining crops in.

We still have to do beans and, even thought it is getting late, a second planting of peas, some of the potatoes and some onions given us by a friend, who did not have room for them.

The seed for white Lumina pumpkins that Brigit, our oldest granddaughter, wanted us to grow made it under the row cover. Her younger sister, Maeve, was a little late in asking us to grow watermelon, so that will not get the boost from the little mini-greenhouses.

Since I have some tomatoes under the covers and some not, it will be interesting to see how much of a boost the covers provide.
Below is how the covers look. You can see some strawberries and some potato trenches in foreground, along with a string I use to keep straight lines.
The pink flowers are a perennial baby's breath, which would take over the garden if we let it.

We bought the covers from Lee Valley, and they are fairly easy to set up. The plastic got a little damaged in high wind shortly after we put them up, but they seem to be doing the jobl.

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