Tomatoes, and another 'chuck

Padre warned me to watch for young ones moving in once our resident woodchuck relocated to other pastures. Tonight I disturbed a little one grazing right by the tractor shed. Maybe I should say "Marmot Shed", since there is no tractor in there but apparently a first class woodchuck residence underneath. I baited the trap with a red cabbage seedling from the same set that lured his uncle the other day.

In my last post I neglected to report last weekend's solanum plantings. This is the problem with blogging on the internets: worrying about sounding intelligent and how to summarize information that few care about distracts one from recording the real events. We have one each of Speckled Roman paste, Hog Heart paste, Black Cherry, Cosmonaut Volkov, and Pirirform. Five tomato plants seems like enough. I am palming off the extra seedlings onto my co-workers.

Also installed is a mixture of sweet and hot peppers, two "Dusky" eggplant starts, and a variety of purple, lemon, Large Leaf Italian, and sweet basils. The sunflowers, squash, cukes and beans are up in force.

I should also mention that we heard loons tonight.