Chores for the third week in July

Please keep up on the weeding, last week's volunteers made your job a lot easier they were weeding champions. Please harvest the swiss chard, borage, basil, cucumbers and lettuce under the cucumber trellises. Please sow spinach seeds on the inside perrimeter bed opposite of the shed in the left corner and mark your sowing with a stick marker from the shed. Please sow additional sunflower seeds all along the outside perrimeter. The tomato plants still need to be suckered check out the link showing you how to do this from a previous post. Remember the garden needs to have a total of 1 inch of rain so if it doesn't get that please water regularly. It is important to water the soil around the plants and not the plants themselves. Watering the soil and not the plant is important for two reasons; the first being the sun will burn the leaves if they are wet and the second is that there is bacteria that collects in the rain barrels and the soil will filter out the bacteria.