Nancy and I just pulled the row covers off of our plants.

You know it is time – usually late June or early July – when the tomatoes start poking through the slits in the plastic that make up our mini-greenhouses.

Things are in pretty good shape. We have blossoms on a lot of the tomatoes and some of the summer squash. The cucumbers also look good. Some peppers just sort of disappeared, but we planted too many.

We lost the petite yellow hybrid watermelon we had planted, so we have only two varieties left, Sugar Baby and Peace.

We have picked about 20 quarts of strawberries, eating them daily, and the bed is still producing, although the size of the berries is shrinking.

I have found about five mature pods of peas, and popped those and ate them raw in the garden. We probably will be eating peas early next week.

It is just great to be eating out of the garden again.

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