Morning in the Garden

Summer                                                                     Moon of the Firsts Harvests

Still weary today.  Not sure why unless it’s the torpor I described yesterday, a collecting of tensions released, then a sag.  Maybe.

Out this morning encouraging the reproductively focused like tomatoes and peppers to do their best and the vegetatively focused like cabbage and beets to do their best.  I always have some spray left over so I then continue on to lilies, begonias, clematis, geraniums and hosta, ferns, hyacinths, bugbane.  Doesn’t take long and the results so far look good.  Lots of fruits, roots and few insects.

In the early morning the dew remains on the plants, water rolls off the rubberized sole of my boots, leaking in a bit.  My jeans soak up dew at thigh level when pressing through bushes like the gooseberries to get to other plants.  The rest of me though is dry.  The dewpoint a pleasant 57, the temperature 60.