Busy weekend.

Fought the woodchucks and they are in hiding or have gone to their cottage at the lake for the Fourth of July weekend. But not before they ate all our lettuce and our neighbor's beans.

Picked half of a 5-gallon pail of Knight and World's Record peas over the weekend. Had family visiting both days, so ate them raw as an appetizer with drinks before dinner. Have promised my mother-in-law I will not pick until the morning of July 4 so we can have cooked peas with salmon and strawberry shortcake for dessert.

Our strawberries are done. We have some leftover Sparkle and a new bed of an early variety – the bed is in its second year. We got about 10 quarts total. We will have to buy at a farmer's market for shortcake July 4. Next year we will plant a bed of late variety strawberries to extend the season.

Took the row covers off our warm weather plants. The tomatoes and peppers look great. None of the cucumber seed sprouted, so we will have none of that. That'll teach us to use 2-year-old seed. More business to the local markets, I guess.

We have some squash, but not much.

Have a great Fourth.

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