Did anyone else see that guy loading animals onto his boat two by two?

Another six tenths of an inch yesterday afternoon and overnight. I'm losing at least 60% of the strawberries to rot, and the usual 30% to various critters. On the bright side (pun intended), more than half of the potato plants were tall enough to give them their first mounding yesterday. I also noticed the first small green bean. Everything is still stunted, but at least most of the plants.look healthy. I think a week of sunshine will cause an explosion of growth; keep praying.

It depends on what your definition of a planetary fever is.

The cool, rainy weather continues, but I actually have some small, yellow summer squash emerging. Can't take credit for these though. My summer squash and zucchini cross-pollinated last year, and produced sterile seed. I had to buy seedlings (Pezza farm in Johnston, RI) for both. On the plus side, we're finally getting strawberries; about two weeks behind schedule. I wonder if Al Gore grows or buys his strawberries.

I have 8-10 pine logs if anyone is interested. They are 6-8 feet long and 6-12 inches in diamter. Not much good for anything except camp fire wood. I would just prefer not to spend the time cutting, splitting and burning them myself.

Rain, rain go away.

I finally got everything in the ground by the end of the seventh, and now April weather has decided to show up in June. The ground is too cold to stimulate proper growth, and the extra water is keeping the root systems to high in the ground. The only things that seem to be enjoying this are the peas and potatoes (what a surprise, the cool weather crops), and to a lesser extent, most of the winter and summer squashes. The peppers, tomatoes, bush beans and chiles seem especially hard hit. I can almost guarantee it will not be a good year for corn.