On the sweetpea front: I am still harvesting sweetpeas.  4 oz, then 11
oz, then 4 oz, then 4 more oz.  (I’m recording the harvest weights on
my calendar so I have a total for the year when I’m done.
Oops…forgot to weigh the carrots.  I’ll have to guess when I harvest
the rest of them.)  I’m picking peas about every four days.  They’ve
been getting sweeter as the season progresses, which I chalk up to the
latest weather pattern, of several days of clear weather with cold nights, and then a heavy rain – rinse and repeat.

Or perhaps they’re sweeter because they’re fixing more nitrogen in the soil?  I can only hope – I don’t understand a lot of this stuff on a practical level, since I haven’t been farming very long.  I also don’t know when to hoe under the pea vines, but I expect it’s like when you’re popping popcorn, when the harvest seriously declines, you cut your losses.  I notice my neighbor down the way has already turned his in.

I’m writing this pre-Gulf Wars, and so I don’t have time to be doing what I ought to be doing, which is spreading mushroom compost, elemental sulfur, and tilling both in.  Also raking of the oak leaves that are falling ALL OVER the place, and recovering the beds with the new dead leaves as mulch.  And the planting of the baby seedlings that I planted a few weeks ago – they’re all up and ready to be thinned and go in, but I have no time!  Arrgh.