Summer Days in the Garden
When the daytime highs reach the mid-nineties, (mid-thirties C), something in me switches to pick-and-preserve mode. It just seems like that’s what I ought to be doing, and it is!
| We’re enjoying fresh steamed beans & I’m canning canning as many as I can. These are Tendergreens. |
| Summer squash is doing well. I only have about 3 or 4 plants because we all know how prolific it can be! |
| I’ve tried a number of varieties over the years, but the standard yellows seem to do best. Love these sauteed with onion & basil. |
| I planted cushaw for winter squash where I planted clover as a living mulch. Cushaw has always done well for me, although the clover is beginning to wilt from the hot dry weather. |
| I have two varieties of tomatoes, Homestead and a Roma type. The Romas are struggling with anthracnose, unfortunately, which seems to be a recurring problem for me with paste types. |
| Okra is a favorite and doing well. We eat it oven fried and it freezes without blanching. |
| Lots of cucumbers too! We’re eating plenty fresh and I’m restocking my shelves with lots of pickles. |
| My several rows of popcorn are doing well. |
| Field corn. Half of the patch has done well, the other half has no ears! I suspect nitrogen deficiency. I plan to cut those plants back and dry for stover. |
| Amaranth has only done so-so. This is a feed crop for me so the more the better. |
No shows for me this year have been Swiss chard, which I planted twice! No joy with watermelons either. I had half a dozen indoor starts that didn’t make it, and neither did the seeds I planted directly in the ground to replace them.
In the fruits and nuts department, we had no peaches or almonds this year, even though there were plenty of blossoms! No strawberries either, because I lost all my plants in last summer’s horrific heat and drought. The apple harvest will be okay, although less abundant than last year.
| This Gala is still a little green but has good flavor. |
Pear trees have produced only a few, so I’m not expecting much of a harvest there. A first this year will be my Japanese persimmon!
| First time for fruiting this year, four of them! |
I planted it in my first hedgerow two years ago and confess I haven’t given it a lot of nurturing. It’s had to struggle on it’s own but it’s survived and beginning to produce! We have a wild persimmon too, but it’s so tall that the only way to get fruit is the ones that fall to the ground. Critters both tame and wild keep the area pretty well cleaned up, however, so there’s never any left for us. Even so, those fruits are small compared to the Japanese variety!
Another first will be crabapples.
| I’m thinking pectin and jelly! |
This is the first year I’ve gotten more than only 5 or 6 of them!
Blueberries and figs are my old faithfuls.
| Even though it’s been cooler this summer and with more rain, the blueberries haven’t produced as well as last year. |
| Figs are usually ready for harvest in August. |
So there’s my mid-summer garden report. How about you?
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Leigh, I feel like I just spent the evening walking through your garden. Thanks for the pleasant and brief respite from the day to day of things.