Went out and picked the ripe tomatoes today.

I dug into the area in the two deck containers where I planted the yellow and zucchini squash seed and found the seeds never germinated. Planted the seed on June 22nd, 12 days ago. Only one yellow squash seed came up. While at the market today I purchased a packet of fordhook zucchini squash seeds and planted about five seeds. They did not have any yellow squash seeds in the seed rack. The one seed that did come up is a yellow squash. So I will end up with three or four zucchini plants and one yellow squash plant. Not going to buy anymore yellow squash seed this year.

While at Home Depot yesterday I purchased a grinding cylinder with the grinding stone measuring 3/4 diameter by 1 1/2 inch long attached to a 1/4 inch shank 1/1/2 inches long. I got that to attach to my electric drill to grind off the sharp points on the metal chimneys [cages] I made. When I cut the chimney wire with the heavy duty wire cutter left a sharp edge where it was cut. Raked myself a few times on the sharp points. When I made the chimneys I also cut the metal wire to create a larger opening than 6 x 6 to reach in with my soil meters and easier to spread ferlizer around. Those sharp points are nasty when I pass my arm over them by mistake. They draw blood too. I will be going out tomorrow or Friday and do some grinding.