We picked our first strawberries of the season Sunday night. Not many, just enough to put on our cereal, and we don't expect to have a great season because our beds are in transition. But finding and picking the berries was a great way to end a productive weekend in the garden.

I called a couple of pick-your-own-strawberry farms, and got only answering machines, but none of them are picking yet. If we were commercial, we would not be picking, either. Ripe berries were few and far between. I expect they will be picking in a week or two.

A lot of vegetable progress this weekend.

We put in our sweet potato plants, which had just arrived in the mail, and planted all of our cucumber and squash seeds.

The peas are looking right on schedule, and we will probably have pickable lettuce in about a week. The pepper and potato plants look great.

The only problem with the weekend was that I did so much work that I can't sit at my computer screen at work for more than 15 minutes without my legs getting sore. I have to get up and walk around. Oh well.

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