Lettuce, strawberries and woodchucks

I built another garden frame and planted about 150 lettuce. We haven't kept up very well with the last batch, but it will soon be going to seed. I will need to harvest more aggressively in the future. I will do one more frame full of lettuce in another six to eight weeks, after the Solstice, and see if it will last through the fall and winter.

We had our largest harvest of strawberries over the weekend, more than eighty from one frame and seventeen that were past ripe. If we double that next year, with the new frame, we should have enough to make some preserves.

Two baby woodchucks appeared this week. We will post a picture as soon as we can sneak up close enough. They are too cute. Hopefully, they will remain cute and not become nuisances.

The irises are almost finished blooming, just a handful left. The peonies seem to be in the their final bloom.