It was a rare weekend. I did everything on my to-do list.

Most importantly, with granddaughter Maeve's help, I planted all of our peas and the King Richard leeks I ordered from Johnny's Selected Seeds in Winslow. I poked the hole in the soil, and Maeve dropped in the leeks. It went quite quickly.

We have some Lancelot leeks coming from Dixondale Farms in Texas. I want to compare the varieties, but one advantage of ordering locally is that they know when we actually should be putting in the plants.

All of the peas -- Sugar Snap, Knight, World's Record and Green Arrow -- we got from Allen Sterling & Lothrop in Falmouth. I saved some for a second planting in three weeks, but I have a problem. Our pea-loving relatives from Florida are coming in mid-August this year. I will probably have to plant some Wando Bush peas in late May in order to get August peas.

Next, I raked up the lawn and planted perennial ryegrass, also from ASL, on the bare spots.

I planted three types of lettuce mixes and created a rock-free well mulched bed for growing carrots. The method I used was sent to me from Barb Smith, and is the tip in last Sunday's column, which overall was about growing an organic vegetable garden.

And I watered it all down with water from the new rain barrel that I got from the Portland Water District. The rain barrel, full a week ago, is now empty.

So, right now I am all caught up in the vegetable garden. But I know the onions and the rest of the leeks will arrive soon.

After dinner Sunday, I went to take a bath to soak my aching muscles, listening to the Red Sox on the radio and intending to watch them on TV after I was done. Instead, I went to bed and missed a good game.

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