Garden chores

Hurry! Only two and a half months left!
The weather has warmed up and that means I've been outside a lot more, doing all the chores I put off. Here's what I've done so far:

• Turned the compost pile and sprinkled it with alfalfa meal to speed things up.
• Planted most of the transplants.
• Prepared the hoop house for growing by adding chicken manure, compost, alfalfa meal and wood ashes. (I sprinkled wood ashes on the flower beds in early spring this year and it worked wonders!)
• Fertilized with alfalfa meal and fish tank water.
• Planted the honeysuckle, lily and hydrangea.
• And ofcourse, weeding weeding weeding!

The guys got the plastic on the greenhouse and made it so that a bottom flap can be lifted for ventilation. Even on a cool day, it is hot in there
The wall-o-waters are proving to be more trouble than they're worth. They keep collapsing on the tomatoes. The white blanket on the box works better and is easier.

I've been trying to stick to the moon planting schedule but it isn't really possible sometimes. When planting, a lot of weeding has to be done. In fact, weeding has to be done almost every day. Weeding on a fertile day may explain why they come back with a vengeance. If you believe in that stuff...

It's 61 degrees, sunny and windy at 9:00 am.