Yesterday before the baseball game I put out eight Early girl tomato plants in the westernmost panel on the south end of the garden. I leaned up some glass panels to keep the worst of the wind off of them and mulched them with oak leaves after I watered them in. This morning when I went out to check on them I noticed that a cutworm had munched one of them (the pretty one to the right of the t-post near the center of this photo - this is before the cutworm). I put a hot cap over it on the odd chance that it will survive and set some new leaves.
Tracy came out around lunch time today and we worked up four hills under the trellises where the sugar snap peas are in the north end of the garden. I planted all of the early straightneck yellow squash in the four hills -- four plants in each of the first three hills and five in the last hill. We then mulched them and the peas with oak leaves that I shredded over by the strawberry bed. I've started on another big leaf pile this evening and will use it on the potato rows as soon as I can get it done and out there. There are at least eighty red lasoda potatoes back up again. The frost that nipped them didn't do any serious harm.
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