We spent a quiet day in the drizzly rain on the Fourth, harvesting for Sunday. Luckily it was cool and drizzly all day—could harvest all our lettuce and greens before dinner and sparklers. Usually harvest day ends in exhaustion and a rush to harvest all before the sun goes down. I think I’ve mentioned before that greens cannot be picked in the heat of the midday sun. An inconvenient truth.
Despite drizzly rain this weekend, we could still use a few more inches. We harvested broccoli yesterday for CSA members and next week look forward to our first potatoes! We are finding them all over the garden, a result of our dog’s help during planting.
Japanese beetles, the grossest bug of all, are showing their ugly heads. So are hornworms and parsley worms. Todd is picking most of them off and, after a silent and respectful nod towards their place in the universe, squashing them with his fingers.
We are officially disconnected from the television and are fine.
Julia
Julia
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