Back on the farm after a much cooler and wetter weekend in Knoxville. Just over the Appalachians, Knoxville is experiencing a wet spring with a surplus of 2.27 inches of rain this year. Charleston, however, is in a deficit of 4.80 inches! We could use some of the wet stuff down here...hand watering my greens is getting to be a chore.

The first picture is the Red Russian Kale....it is growing extremely well. I am starting to harvest it's outer leaves for a quick snack in the garden.

The second picture is a snake skin I found next to my kiwi vines. I think it's from a poisonous snake as the belly scales run perpendicular the entire length of its body. I am probably wrong though because I learned about snakes in Mr. Savory's wildlife management class in high school. A lot of cob webs have formed since then!

Third picture is my trellis system for the pole beans. I finished this on Friday, and only three days later, the beans have already started climbing...I wonder which plant little Jack will decide to climb...

The fourth picture is of today's work. Staking out the tomatoes...some nice shoulder rehab pounding 100 stakes into the ground.

Oh and my potatoes finally arrived, but they were sent to Knoxville! The company accidentally sent them to my billing address instead of the shipping address. Bummer...I am kind of worried that I am planting these way to late for Charleston. It will soon be very very hot here, so we'll see what happens. Maybe I will be the only grower with late season spuds :)