The Unattended Garden...

[oakley]

What idiot leaves their garden the entire month of July?

I'll quote myself,
The pleasures of gardening, a successful garden season, involves mindfulness, patience,
a healthy appetite for learning, researching and problem solving, and most important...
acceptance.

Acceptance.

After a three day trip, across the Island of Newfoundland, PortAuxBasque sailing the
Gulf of St Lawrence, a night in St Lawrence by the sea NB, into Maine, the MassPike to
the Catskill Mnt farm...Saturday night at sunset. (planned to stop at Johnny's but closed
on the weekends, darn)
Lush and green, weekly thunderstorms, I walked to the garden with my Felco pruners.
Biggest disappointment was the tomatoes. Seem suspended in time and barely waist
high. Healthy but expected a jungle. Brad's Atomic Grape is loaded with fruit.

Summer/winter squash huge and healthy, garlic amazing. Peppers seem ok.

Salanova trial lettuce looks fake it is so healthy...the only of all the salad that survived.
Beautiful full heads looking like hot house grown.

Our spring filter system failed at some point, full of crawdads. Too complicated to expect
our neighbors to solve that issue.

Picked a fifth of the garlic so I could get in some other crops...(how did I miss so many
scapes?)...I think I picked too soon but had to take a look, then could not stop.