Be aware that tiny black flea beetles are
out and they like chewing on small veggies.
Transplanting larger veggies help.
Cover early with Remay cover cloth.
Spray with a pyrethrum/rotenone spray works
pretty well.
Time to apply the predatory nematodes.
Even under a microscope, I had a hard
time seeing them.....leap of faith :)
Beans, onions, garlic are jumped out
of the ground this past week.
I am NOT going to talk about the
lack of slugs and snails.

Another great day for gardening.
Lots of cole and warm season crops in.
Grass is still going crazy.  The grass that I 
mowed two weeks ago, the grass has died and
is now nice mulch.  Knock on wood, no
secondary weed seed emerging, yet.
Tomatoes and peppers doing fine.
Plant some late and garlic and it was up
in less than one week.  When I dug a garlic up, I
noticed that the garlic scales, which keep the cloves
contained, there weren't many left, which means
the cloves may split more this year.
Berries forming very nicely.
Insects being slow, but the warm and
wet diseases are exploding.

Weather is up and down, rainy then sunny.
Forecast is for sunny - yeah.
Protect plants from slugs and snails.
Found quite a bit of frost damage from two weeks ago.
Most plants actually doing well.
Apple scab and powdery mildew really bad.  Prune
off the powdery mildew.  A protection spray is needed
for apple and pear scab.
Rosemary - blooming nice.
Garlic - sending up whistles or seed heads,
remove for bigger bulbs.
Grass is going wild so cut ASAP.

Dang rain,
It was only suppose to rain 10%, not all day long.
Apples looking very good.
Still seeing peach leaf curl.
Seeing a lot of coastal cedar rust on Bartlett
pears and comice.
Oaks showing the green webworms on thin
web strands.
Garlic is over three foot tall but bulbs
only about 1 1/2 inches.

For tree fruits, the new growth is perfect for "wiping". 
Wiping is where you go out to the tree.  Where the new
growth is located, take your hand with a grove, and "wipe"
off the new growth from pruning cuts made this past
winter.  With the new growth only 2-3 inches long, with a
gloved hand, the new growth can be removed or "wiped"
from where it is growing.  By wiping, there is very little
growth since you are not cutting the tissue.  Plus little you
are a head for next winter, two WINS!!!  Apples have
 a lot of powdery mildew, just prune it out.

Spittle bugs out in big numbers, just
wash them off or spray with a little
 insecticidalsafers soap mix.
Spotted wing drosophila was reported
in Albany, so the little critter is coming.
four more GOOD days.  Plant away.

Lots going on.
Stripped cucumber beetles are out so
be aware if you have squash plants.
Codling moths emerged early this week.
Lots of insects out.
Plant quickly as it may "R" next week.
Most crops, fruit and berries doing well.
Looks like strawberries around June
15th if the weather holds.
Push plants with a good fertilizer such
a liquid fish, blood meal or 16-16-16.