We did not get out as early as I would have liked, being that I had physical therapy this morning, and after that, and the weather was alternately threatening, and baking hot, we were not sure how to approach it.
In the end, we dressed the kids lightly, packed mosquito repellant, water bottles, and headed out. In all we spend just over three hours at the Minnetonka garden, and it cooked us.
Mark, whose backyard it is that we garden there, has a hose available to us and we kept the girls pretty well sprayed down to offset the heat, which the kids got a real kick out of running through.
Of the 5 beds and two sections of trellis left to weed, fluff, and plant, the girls got three beds and the trellis weeded, I got the trellis and one of the beds turned and planted. The bed received 7 Long Keeper tomato plants, and on the trellis I did a full section of Rattlesnake pole beans, half a section of Minnetonka Soup beans, and half a section of another of the Hidatsa Shield/Dragon tongue cross. Curious if either of those last two will make it to maturity considering that we are already into summer, and possibly within 90 days of first frost already (yikes).
Baby Vi made it through about two and a half hours of running around, playing in the sun, and trying to pick up baby toads before she needed a snack and a nap in the shade.
This just shows a row of 19 BISON tomato plants which is an old Oscar Will tomato developed before either of my grandfathers were ever born for short season northern growing determinate processing tomatoes. I figure at this point it is a good thing to get every short season plant I can into the ground.
Shortly after I took this photo I told everyone to pack it up. Between physical therapy, and the three hours of work in the sun, I was physically done in. We are hoping to get to the Ness farm tomorrow if it does not rain, and earlier in the day to avoid the heat issues we got to deal with today. There is not a lot of planting to do. Some replanting, but almost all of the transplants are in the ground.
