I'm feeling a bit better today about things in the vegetable garden. I made a batch of spaghetti sauce (known in my husband's family as gravy) with the Romas. Five to six pounds of tomatoes made a quart of gravy. We had half for dinner tonight, along with some zucchini and green beans from the garden. The rest is cooling in a Zip-loc bag, and headed for the freezer soon. I used our tomatoes, yellow peppers, basil, and oregano, and garlic from my father-in-law's garden (thanks, Bill!). A little olive oil, a little onion, a little Chianti. Yum.I started some seeds for the fall garden. To thwart the chipmunks (and birds), I started the zucchini, yellow squash, and cucumber seeds in peat pots on the deck. I also started some lettuce and spinach in planters. They'll stay on the deck. Tomorrow, I'll soak some sugar snap seeds, and plant them in the garden in the afternoon.
We were going to check on the bluebird babies today, until we saw one of them come to the opening of the box. I remembered that you're not supposed to check them after they're fourteen days old. If you open the box, they may fledge too early. So we'll wait. Best we can tell, they're 15-16 days old. They fledge at 17-18 days. So we'll be keeping a close eye out--they should fledge before Tuesday.
