Other than a handful of flea beetles a while ago, no insect pressures yet to mention.
The tomatoes are looking slow to take off -- the one Jasper has a few flowers and a handful of tomatoes forming, and the Scotia has a few flowers, but everything else is taking a bit longer.
Oh and the cucumbers aren't thrilled about being crowded in among the peas and potatoes -- but I think they'll get there.
Lots of green healthy growth everywhere.
Even my home-sown basil looks fabulous! Except for 3 or 4 of the southmost ones which maybe didn't covered as well during the cold (?) as they now have some weird / bad-looking leaves. But the rest look amazing.
And the zucchinis! WOW! Even the two that at first looked pale and I was sure I was going to pull, have pulled through and they're among the first I'll be harvesting from! All 7 of the main* zucchini plants look like they'll be producing fruit instead of the fruit petering out even before the flower opens, as was the case so often in recent years. I can only imagine it's from not putting too much nitrogen, and from adding in the kelp and mineralized rock phosphate?! *One zucchini in the Waltham broccoli bed was verrry late to get planted and is shaded by those broccolis so is unlikely to do much. Also planted 2 late starts a few weeks ago, will see what they do (one in the a/c bed, the other in the south center of the central bed). Oh and all zukes are under tulle except those two late starts. I feel like maybe, just maybe I've given them enough space with the tulle this year that maybe I'll be able to keep the tulle on well into the season.
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