8/10/2013 Lughnasa State Fair Moon
Kate canned carrots and beets yesterday. She also made a wonderful meal with a tomato and cucumber salad, cooked greens and carrots, all from our garden. Turkey breast was 
the protein. It was colorful, fresh and tasted amazing. It’s very satisfying to eat produce you’ve grown yourself. As Kate said, “It’s hyperlocal.”
The Asiatic lilies have one last representative, a beautiful white with red interior, all the rest have dropped their blooms. Now it is the time of the daylilies, the wisteria, the clematis and the liguria. This is also the peak time of year for bugbane, a shade lover that produces a flower with a sweet, ethereal fragrance. The hosta, the ferns, the pachysandra, lilies of the valley and the monkshood all provide green backdrop. The monkshood and the asters will begin to bloom later in the month.
Our raspberries have begun to produce, too. Over the next few weeks it will be raspberries, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, peppers followed by leeks and the fall crop of beets and carrots. Kate just told me that our pear crop, which has to ripen off the tree, is mature. That means she has to do something with it right away. Today.
No harvesting of the remaining greens right now.
This is the payoff for the work begun in late April. Worth it.
