been a while!

OK Esther...I know it's been too long since I've posted. I don't know where all the days go by.
Even with the lousy weather that we're having this year, we're managing to put a lot in the freezer already. The grand total on the asparagus that's been cut so far this year is 85 lb. 5 oz. I've been fairly creative in cooking it, but after you eat it every day for over a month it gets tiresome. Even our friends started to avoid us if they saw us approaching them with a bagful of asparagus!
We planted two different varieties of strawberries last year - Surecrop and Honeyone. We liked the Surecrop much more than the Honeyone. They're bigger berries and ripen to a much richer shade of red. The flavor of both of them is tart this year - probably because of the excess rain that we've been having. So far we've picked 69 qts., but there was probably at least another 20 qts. that just rotted on the vines :0(
We've also started to pick our small crop of sour cherries, so far we've picked 2.5 lbs.
The spinach crop was a big disappointment, it was a whopping 1 lb. 4 oz. total.
The varieties of tomatoes that I planted this year are: 6 Mountain Spring, 6 Mountain Fresh, 6 New Girl, 6 Big Beef, 6 prudence purple, 6 German Pinks and then I transplanted a couple volunteer plants, of the surprise variety!
Our daylilies are just starting to come into bloom and I'm expecting that they'll be quite colorful within the next couple of weeks. The glads are starting to bud up and should be in bloom soon. I planted cosmos, zinnia and poppy seeds that should be colorful, but not for a month or so.
The potato bugs were eating up all of our potato plants, but Zip powdered them with a 1% dusting of Rotenone (sp?) and that seems to have helped.
Our summer squash, zucchini, cukes, pumpkins and butternut squash all look pretty pathetic - we need more sunshine! The peas are in various stages of growth as there ended up being two different plantings that were at least two weeks apart. It looks like we should be able to start picking peas within two weeks. The garlic is starting to die back, so I'll be able to pull that pretty soon too.