Was totally on fire today. Got all the richter scale acquisitions in the ground, clipped the boxwood hedge, the cedar hedge, reported the rubber tree, transplanted the jasmine and piled straw up around the potatoes.  

  

After an incredibly dry May, June has been really wet the past two weeks. Some real downpours giving us about 6 to 8 inches of rain. And more today.

  
Got the composter emptied yesterday and spread over one of the veg beds and around the potatoes to ,Lund them up a bit. Applied a couple of handfuls of hen manure around the potatoes and the garlic to give them a boost. 

Have planted beans three times and only two or three have germinated. 

Did a run to richters $90 for the rarer herbs, wintergreen, verbena, hops, jalapeño peppers and then a quick stop at Jays for some jasmine and cannas for the front pots.  

Rachel is going to plant the front of #14 next week, hostas, dahlias, lavender one day next week. Doug is here painting the front porch.

Cut down the sycamore maple. It was full of mealy bugs, something I don’t need and the pear trees are showing first signs of rust. If it wasn’t raining, I’d be out cutting off the infected leaves.